SCH endgame/gear/stat cap Qs

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Originally Posted by Kyana

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For a healer mind, vitality and piety are the 3 most important stats. You should try to get a good ammount of vitality to have enough life for endgame content and make your life a bit easier. A dead healer has 0 healing potential*snip*

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This is neither completely wrong nor true.
Yes, as heal you need Mind.
No, as a SCH you need neither Piety nor Vitality. The only fight i could imagine where you could need to have lots of HP as a heal is Twintania (Coil T5), but until you arrive there, well lets say it will take some time :>.

As far as I've seen, and in my experiences with Scholar so far, I've noticed the following:
1) Weapon damage DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE. The relic weapon was a nice upgrade, if you aren't running Deus Gratia fully melded, it'll be a noticeable bump in heals.
2) Crits make me squee in joy. Why? because every time I crit an adloquium, the barrier effect is doubled. With food, I'm running a 20%-ish crit chance, and I love it dearly. 900 adlo? 1800 barrier. Simply beautiful.
3) We don't need PIE for anything. Why? Because if you're a smart little book nerd, you keep using your aetherflow stacks / aetherflow ability every darn time it comes up, even if you're only missing 200MP. Why? because waiting to use aetherflow until your MP is low is just ridiculous.

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4) MND is nice, you don't need to rely on determination. Why? because 1 mnd = 5.44444444444444(into infinity) determination. If you're going to argue math, I'd prefer you take it up with the people I acquired the math from ( http://valk.dancing-mad.com/calculat...ng-calculator/ )
5) After MND, I stack spell speed, on personal choice. Some people I know may be perfect at ALWAYS hitting their heals at the right time, and never missing a prediction on pre-curing, but I don't like to take a chance in case I mess up. Only human, etc.

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6) SCH is a mitigation healer. What does that mean? Even if the people are at full HP, you can throw out a Succor or an Adloquium if you know that a move is coming. Learning to pre-cure, pre-heal, is important. Knowing when to use steady and manually control your pet (rouse->Whispering Dawn <3), or when to let your pet follow it's AI, is something you get to choose to learn, but pre-healing is not. The biggest hurdle I've noticed a lot of healers facing in endgame content, and one I've seen in Titan, is the fact that no one seems to want to predict the monster's attacks and actions. Most mobs have a pretty rote sense of acting out, a pattern, and if you can begin to recognise that, you'll be a-okay on Scholar, no matter the target.

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On the topic of vitality...
I have a set of HQ astral melded with Vitality in prep for Coil, but the people I run with are not quite there yet. Because I gather and craft in an almost ritualistically insane fashion, along with running a tonne of WP with my little people, I have decided to do this, but it may not be the path you choose. If so, the person I consider my mentor told me I could 'suck it up and deal with it' when the time comes. Up to and until Coil, however, it's not an issue. As long as you can strafe your happy self out of red circles, you'll be A-Okay. If you can't move, then you may have to decide to stack in more vitality. That's not a choice anyone can make for you, because we don't know how well you dance.

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Originally Posted by Sanare_Anahita

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To the OP, solo healing? in instances of 4 you are the healer and you can do all of them. Some good tests were doing Brayflox before leeches and Aurum Vale.

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Originally Posted by Kyana

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4. I look at Schoolar more as a supporter than a main healer. It lacks the healing potential for that job. But that is ok.
Endgame content requires 8 players in general and the best setup for healing, in my opinion, is a WHM+SCH.
WHM does the big heals and group heals while SCH makes the life of the WHM easier and less MP intensive. Your pet is pretty decent as healer too and can be even more effective if you micromanage its abilities in certain situations.
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What you mean Main healer? Healing Tanks or Full group? Because focus on tank SCH will do it easier than WHM.
The perfect team is having both healer, that's how we run it anyways, I don't see anyone being "main" healer as we do it as a team we share the burden.

The trouble is that people only notice the amount of heal and not the prevention.
But as someone said "I don't know what you do but I notice when you don't"

As I main Scholar it is a very busy role to play because you have a lot of things to manage, whereas WHM is a bit more straight forward. But let me tell you that SCH is a main healer, not support. I have solo healed Titan, and am regularly finishing Coil T4, and healing on SCH is definitely as good as WHM if played correctly.

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Half-equipped Seline can soloheal AK if you throw in some lustrates. She can´t do that in WP. For whm wp may be the faster myth-runs. Doesn´t matter for sch (~15min vs ~20min geared)

Good first items for myth are the relic+1 and the pants. (Good boost and hard to get otherwise)

Good crafted items are Vanyarobe of healing and the rose gold circlet.

Avoid myth or crafted boots. Coil´s are easy to get, bis and not even much better.

There are no caps (rumored that aquo crit is capped at 470 critrating)

If you are aiming for full coil (T5) prepare to get the accessories for the vita-boost.

Must haves for the sch are Swiftcast and for 4-ppl inis clerics stance. Thunder is good to have for 1-4ppl, stoneskin is nice to have for coil.

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Originally Posted by Exstal

Up to and including Titan HM. (obviously not your first time)

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Turn 1 can be solo healed.

Turn 2 should be able to be solo healed. Maybe someone else will beat me to it, but I might try next lockout.

(Note: There's no good reason to solo heal any Turns in Coil, but you can)

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Originally Posted by Bije

Turn 1 can be solo healed.

Turn 2 should be able to be solo healed. Maybe someone else will beat me to it, but I might try next lockout.

(Note: There's no good reason to solo heal any Turns in Coil, but you can)

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Turn 1 I'd never want to try it, but I'm guessing you'll have to be very fast in killing it. Anything more than 1 or 2 stacks on both snakes I don't think would be healable. Alternatively just let them combine and just kite it around, then you could go for a 1/1/6 setup.

Turn 2 I'd say definitely up until ADS uses rot, after that it's going to be rough for a solo healer. Worth a try though and much like Titan would rely on killing it fast and people not taking unnecessary damage.