I Might Be a Terrible Scholar

Scholar heals are based around proactive healing or mitigation. So no, you should not use physick "90% of the time". Physick is a reactionary heal. If you want to play that way you should level White Mage.

Adloquium should always be up on the tank. When it's up and they still need a heal that's when you use physick. Your fairy heal should be hotkeyed and you should spam it. Be sure you're using Rouse when big damage is coming.

If dps take damage only give them physick, the odd hit here or there requires a reaction heal - which is what physick is. If they're being focused, they need adloquium, as it is a proactive heal.

Don't neglect Eye for an Eye. A mob doing 10% less damage for 20 seconds is huge. Use it for big pulls.

To be a good scholar you need to anticipate incoming damage, not simply react to it. This requires knowing the fights so you know when big damage is coming but that comes with time. Good luck!

In Stone Vigil, several of the enemies there hit like trucks. Period. It usually requires chain-healing to keep a tank up until at least one of the harder-hitting enemies is dead anyway, and so as a Scholar, your main objective is to just use Adloqium and Physick interchangeably whenever you can capitalize on the shielding (or conversely, when you NEED that shield to keep your tank up) and trying to keep your tank essentially topped-off during hard pulls, because Scholars do not play Catch-Up well in the ways that WHM can. That said, between you and either faerie, Physick + Embrace is pretty decent healing output.

You do have to make sure your tanks aren't standing in avoidable burst damage, and are actually using their defensive cooldowns on hard pulls. Beyond that, there's no reason you should be struggling overmuch unless you and the tank are just exceptionally poorly geared.

Sch is about pre-healing and spamming phsyick ... Aldo imo isnt great until better geared and even then really only great if critical. Aldo is better for healing dps classes as its very low hate and shields them from next inc damage. I do use Aldo on predictable boss fights IE right before mountain buster.

Before each pull Aldo/Stoneskin tank depending on the tanks gear ect.. you need to get ready for physick spam or plain dotting things up and spreading it.. eye for eye on any 3 pack pull if its up.

You dont need to micro eos you just need to be able to control her primary heal time her heal and your heal to hit at the same time and its a good way to burst heal tank if he is going down semi fast.

You cant wait on sch like whm to start healing you need to start much early than most people would think.

I've played both SCH and WHM. I prefer WHM because it fits me better and how I like to play. I am with the guy a few posts back, if you wanna be a spam reactive healer, go WHM and spam cure until freecure procs. If you are not using scholar as a proactive, shielding healer, then you should play WHM.

Scholar healing is kind of rough at the begining and it picks up at 50 when you get lustrate.

Anyhow, besides Aurum Vale first boss which is hard for scholars becaue you fairy gets all the poison, the starting content is not really that hard. All you got to do is make sure your fairy is between you and the tank. Time Whispering dawn for when it`s needed but if this is to hard for you, just leave it in automatic mode. Use adoquim on your tank if he is getting beat by some mobs at the same time and that`s it.

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Originally Posted by MagoArcano

Anyhow, besides Aurum Vale first boss which is hard for scholars becaue you fairy gets all the poison

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Friggin Eos was riding 9 stacks of that stuff. Beastly fairy.
As with what everyone is in unanimous agreement with, WHM is a reactionary healer that can run in and do the job. SCH is a proactive, tactile healer that focuses on mitigating damage taken. That said, pretend you are playing FFXIV:Tactics. Zoom your camera out as far as possible so you can see the map and everything going on, and plan to fail the first 2-3 times as you pick up what is going on.

Fun story about the camera zoom, Final boss on that Stone Vigil map, could've sworn he iced the entire field, but it was just everywhere that my camera could see (before he took me out). Second time around I zoomed my camera out, realized it was only half the map, and moved accordingly. Won the next round.

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Scholar healing is kind of rough at the begining and it picks up at 50 when you get lustrate.

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I barely ever need to use Lustrate outside of Coil, personally.

Also both types of healers should be PLAYED proactively. The only thing SCH has that makes it more proactive than WHM is Adlo/Succor and a couple DR tools.

Stone Vigil is a big jump up in how much damage the mobs do and there are lots of pulls which if done wrong can end up with multiple mobs beating on you.

Make sure your gear is uptodate.

Place Eos somewhere up front near to the tank and the melee and she will help a lot. Don't worry if you can't micro manage her, let her do her own thing.

Accept that sometimes in duty finder you'll get poorly geared tanks.

Use any action which mitigates damage. So, if you haven't already level WHM to 35ish so you'll have swiftcast and stoneskin. Prebuff the tank before pulls with Eye for an Eye and stoneskin. Use Sacred Soil on big pulls, it's saving you a lot of damage. Put Virus up when you can and use Ruin II to blind mobs. Succor is nice when you have a lot of AoE damage.

Don't panic too much, there were points along the way where I really thought I couldn't play SCH but then I'd suddenly get it and now I'm about to start Coil.

Lustrate is like the only instant heal scholars have.. ofc bad scholars do not use lustrate, the same way as bad dragons only use full trust and ignore the rest of the skills.

Wait till Aurum Vale, that seems to make ALL of us SCH's feel inadequate, at least the first couple hundred times lol.

Seriously though, just keep up on gear, spam Embrace *it's MP free why not?*, Succor before a massive AOE *not sure if this really matters at 47 though*.

It's really only as hard as you make it. If you're frantic about things you'll really only make it seem harder than it is. Also the little things really matter, don't forget you have Virus+ and Eye for an Eye, use them they help ;].