Are healers supposed to be this weak ?

Hello,
I recently started this game, i'm now level 61 with my scholar and its also the only job I use for the moment, i'm really enjoying the story and all but, ever since level 50 everything became so difficult and painful to kill
I'm just at the beginning of the stormblood story line and monsters seems undefeatable

I understand that this is a healing class but does it really have to take me two minutes to kill one regular mob of my level ? Or I am doing something wrong ?

leveling is weird. it'll get better when you get Broil II at Lv 64. i switched to SMN a lot when doing solo stuff.

and healers XP best doing dungeons because of fast queues.

This could be due to the ilvl of the gear you're wearing. If you're not using your chocobo in combat that's even less dps. Also as a sch you have the advantage to switch to smn for much better dps while soloing so you can use this to your advantage.

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Originally Posted by Lulubel100

I'm just at the beginning of the stormblood story line and monsters seems undefeatable

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I believe the msq gives you ilvl 240 gear (?) before you head into SB. It's okay but not great for entering SB. Even as a dps it would take long to kill things with that gear in SB content. You can get ilvl 260 gear with poetics tomestones in Idyllshire.

Taking your chocobo down the dps skill line will also help you to kill mobs in the open world. Highly recommended to have him summoned at all times, he's very useful!

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Originally Posted by Penthea

This could be due to the ilvl of the gear you're wearing. If you're not using your chocobo in combat that's even less dps. Also as a sch you have the advantage to switch to smn for much better dps while soloing so you can use this to your advantage.



I believe the msq gives you ilvl 240 gear (?) before you head into SB. It's okay but not great for entering SB. Even as a dps it would take long to kill things with that gear in SB content. You can get ilvl 260 gear with poetics tomestones in Idyllshire.

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You can get i255 gear from the vendor in the area where you get into the new zones, which should be more than enough to face them. Otherwise, grind the 60's for Shire gear and augment the weapon, which should last you until Bardam's Mettle.

Chocobo is a must when leveling healer. Some prefer the dps path for the birb. I used the tank path for the birb. Just because I could set myself outside of any aoe range and not have to dodge many attacks. Less downtime dodging and more broil uptime.

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Originally Posted by SendohJin

leveling is weird. it'll get better when you get Broil II at Lv 64. i switched to SMN a lot when doing solo stuff.

and healers XP best doing dungeons because of fast queues.

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I can level the scholar and summoner job at the same time ?

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Originally Posted by Lulubel100

I can level the scholar and summoner job at the same time ?

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Yep. They are based on the class Arcanist, so leveling one does the other. You just need to gear up ad do the quests for abilities.

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Originally Posted by Lulubel100

I can level the scholar and summoner job at the same time ?

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You technically don't have a lvl 61 sch. You have a lvl 61 arcanist, and when you equip a sch job stone you become a lvl 61 sch. This is because arcanist is the base class for sch.

Because sch and smn both have the same base class, which is arcanist, having a lvl 61 sch means you also have a lvl 61 smn (provided you have the smn job stone available to equip).

So the advantage of sch over other healers is they automatically lvl up smn at the same time. Presently arcanist is the only basic class that can use more than one job stone.

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Originally Posted by Lulubel100

Hello,
I recently started this game, i'm now level 61 with my scholar and its also the only job I use for the moment, i'm really enjoying the story and all but, ever since level 50 everything became so difficult and painful to kill
I'm just at the beginning of the stormblood story line and monsters seems undefeatable

I understand that this is a healing class but does it really have to take me two minutes to kill one regular mob of my level ? Or I am doing something wrong ?

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Scholar is considered the best dps healer at level cap. I don't remember how it was at 60 since i leveled mine by leveling SMN but it will get better assuming you play it right.