Quote Originally Posted by Fetus View Post
No, no, no. Are you talking about nuking inside or outside of Abyssea. Because if you're only doing ~2.5K inside of Abyssea, you're doing something wrong. That's weaksauce. You want to cast faster? Use Alacrity. You want more damage? Use Ebullience. Jesus, it's like you people forget that SCH has Stratagems to use. You people keep demanding that Light Arts and Dark Arts get native bonuses added to them. You seem to forget they already do. Casting/recasting time reduction and MP cost reduction isn't good enough? If you want more, more, more then sub /RDM. More Fast Cast and at least then you'll be getting some Magic Attack Bonus.
I think Fetus makes a good point here. Scholar already gets Magic Attack Bonus II if it is subbing red mage. Magic Attack bonus II is +24. Black Mage only gets +36 Magic Attack Bonus from MAB V. I am sure most of us realize MAB traits do not stack. So are people suggesting that Dark Arts get a MAB trait independent of the I-V that stacks with sub job? If so, using Hideka example of +16 through dark arts and +24 through red mage they now have +40, 4 more than Black Mage gets. Since scholar uses strategms beyond MAB to enhance the damage of their nukes, giving them more MAB than Black Mage probably isn't a realistic suggestion. If its not going to stack with sub job why not just give Scholar the trait MAB I at 45 and MAB II at 90 instead of making it overly complicated. That would allow some MAB if for some reason a scholar wanted to use a /ninja sub. I just don't think adding Magic Attack bonus is particularly innovative.

I personally would like to see scholar fleshed out to a more unique role. They share a lot with other mages, which is fine, but think some of the more unique ideas would be more worthwhile. I always thought scholar being more like Rambus's idea of a corsair as a mage with a lot of unique spells to bring to a group.

I thought more should be done with the weather line of spells besides just buffing damage. Also, the Helixes could have been expanded to fill more roles. It seems a lot of scholars just want to be Black Mage, part II becaue they got bored with black mage, and that disappoints me, because scholar can be so much more. Asking for strategms to AOE nukes and more MAB seems pretty pointless. Scholar is supposed to be a strategist, not just brute damage. Definitely the skillchain idea SE has pushed the last couple updates is a something different that is fairly powerful and seems fun.