Consolidated Scholar 4.0 Feedback Thread

my main problem with excog is that our best healing is already highly gated. We needed another atherflow using heal why? One that might waste a Atherflow stack? I will stick to Lustrate ty as for fey union its useful for pumping out maximum tank heals when they need it.

Make Broil 230 potency and make Broil II a 100 potency aoe move (both skills exist next to each other). Fix Bane to the previous status by giving Scholar a Bane trait. Make Excog not cost a stack but a higher cooldown timer and all is well with Scholar.

Main Issue: The class is unfun as hell.

Issue #1: 0 good AoE to spam. This makes 4 mans an absolute chore to do.

Issue #2: Fey Union is just unfun. If the Fairy could act during it with an increased leash range that would be stellar. Or delete it and give me something that isn't dissipate level bad.

Issue #3: Quickened Aetherflow sucks. RNG based skills just feel bad on a healer.

Issue #4: The nerfs were heavyhanded. We need something back, right now there is almost no reason besides Chain Strategem to take us in a raid.

Issue #5: Pet reactions are still clunky and unresponsive. Eos should do what I tell her immediately, not when she gets around to it.

Those sum up my biggest issues. I love the class to death. Fairies are cool. You crushed an excellent class and now you need to fix it.

480 pet potency is weaker than 400 player potency
and in the media tour build excog was in a good state but they nerfed it
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Fey covenant seems pointless, especially with that 2 foot tether.

Just replace it with "Summon Lily" and make her have higher potency heals and new moves. I don't care if it's Demi-bahamut for SCH because The fairy tether is a waste.

http://i.imgur.com/etvWqBH.jpg?1

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Originally Posted by Rubiss

What SCH cares about Sustain? If the fairy needs healing, they'll heal themselves. Sustain is not worth the GCD for SCH.

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A fairy that's healing itself isn't doing anything else for 5+ GCDs. I would much rather spend a single of my own to cast Sustain and heal it. Especially with how much the fairy gets murdered by AoEs now. (Seriously, even in older content. It really feels like they stripped the AoE reduction they used to have. I rouletted into a Keeper of the Lake the other day and had to resummon twice.)

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Originally Posted by tikiwiki

480 pet potency is weaker than 400 player potency
and in the media tour build excog was in a good state but they nerfed it
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Fey Union operates with player potency, not pet potency. Test if out for yourself, it is very much an actual 480 pot in-game.

Embrace and Whispering Dawn both operate at pet potency though, so only Fey Union is unique.

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Originally Posted by TheChemicalCat

Just replace it with "Summon Lily" and make her have higher potency heals and new moves. I don't care if it's Demi-bahamut for SCH because The fairy tether is a waste.
http://i.imgur.com/etvWqBH.jpg?1

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Personally I would prefer replacing dissipation with summon Lily. Have it function kinda like pvp eos and heal when we heal and aoe when we aoe. Lasts till meter drains. We get fairy meter at 60 instead of 70.

I think SCH is starting to flow into the same position WHM is in.

That is, a viable job but is not fun to play and feels weak in comparison to AST.
It really feels like when it came to WHM and SCH, they didn't look into anything fun to give them at all.

When an AST can sheild and mitigate better than you, heal for more than WHM, and offer it's own support... there's a huge problem.

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Originally Posted by TheChemicalCat

Fey covenant seems pointless, especially with that 2 foot tether.

Just replace it with "Summon Lily" and make her have higher potency heals and new moves. I don't care if it's Demi-bahamut for SCH because The fairy tether is a waste.

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I'm pretty sure "Summon Lily" is our level 3 limit break "Angel Feathers".

My grief comes from having to take Eye for an eye as a role action or otherwise I have a useless level 56 skill. Sch gets one less role slot than the other healers because of this.

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Originally Posted by Zephanoa

My grief comes from having to take Eye for an eye as a role action or otherwise I have a useless level 56 skill. Sch gets one less role slot than the other healers because of this.

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Anyone who used Deployment Tactics solely for Eye for an Eye is an idiot. Don't exaggerate the situation there. Deployment is primarily to push the Adloquium shield, with E4E being a happy bonus, but spreading E4E alone was never its primary function and not being able to do so certainly doesn't make it useless.

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Originally Posted by LegoTechnic

I'm pretty sure "Summon Lily" is our level 3 limit break "Angel Feathers".

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It is, but you only summon the Angel Feathers fairy for like 2 seconds before she explodes.

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Originally Posted by LegoTechnic

Anyone who used Deployment Tactics solely for Eye for an Eye is an idiot. Don't exaggerate the situation there. Deployment is primarily to push the Adloquium shield, with E4E being a happy bonus, but spreading E4E alone was never its primary function and not being able to do so certainly doesn't make it useless.

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Exactly this, E4E spread is useful in very little situations (completely useless outside of trials). even in trials it really depends what you're replacing E4E with, most people won't miss it over Swift Cast, Esuna, Lucid Dreaming, Protect, Largesse.

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Originally Posted by LegoTechnic

Fey Union operates with player potency, not pet potency. Test if out for yourself, it is very much an actual 480 pot in-game.

Embrace and Whispering Dawn both operate at pet potency though, so only Fey Union is unique.

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That is just NOT true. Physick (400) heals or me for ~7500 and Fey Union (480) for ~5500. Fey Union can crit for ~8500 but that's the exception, not the rule. Maybe you should test it out for yourself first?

Edit: On top of that it seems that Fey Union isn't affected by Rouse or Fey Illumination since it's an ability. I did test it and noticed an increased heal with Embrace, but not with Fey Union, rendering that skill even more useless.

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Originally Posted by Exiled_Tonberry

I think SCH is starting to flow into the same position WHM is in.

That is, a viable job but is not fun to play and feels weak in comparison to AST.
It really feels like when it came to WHM and SCH, they didn't look into anything fun to give them at all.

When an AST can sheild and mitigate better than you, heal for more than WHM, and offer it's own support... there's a huge problem.

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WHM flows incredibly well and is very fun. It's engaging with low cooldowns, two powerful dots, assize and Stone IV feels fantastic to use. No MP issues at all and god tier in dungeons. I don't feel that WHM is that much weaker than Astrologion at all if played correctly.

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Originally Posted by Zephanoa

My grief comes from having to take Eye for an eye as a role action or otherwise I have a useless level 56 skill. Sch gets one less role slot than the other healers because of this.

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you mean a great level 56 skill the shield is the best part plus if us schs wanna complain look at whm 3 skills taken away

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Originally Posted by LegoTechnic

Fey Union operates with player potency, not pet potency. Test if out for yourself, it is very much an actual 480 pot in-game.

Embrace and Whispering Dawn both operate at pet potency though, so only Fey Union is unique.

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Fey union heals for 5.5k per tick at ilvl314 physick does 7300 and its 480potency for tether 400potency for physick, it is NOT player potency based.

Right now, they could double the healing potency of all scholar heals, and it would only just barely break even with whm and ast for throughput. It was fine for sch to have lower healing throughput in the past, because we had several skills for reducing incoming damage (sacred soil, virus, eye for an eye, adloquium), and with good cooldown management, we could reduce incoming damage enough to offset the lower healing. Using aetherflow efficiently allowed us to respond to burst damage.

Now, fast-forward to the present, we've lost virus and eye for an eye (we could take it, but so can the other healers, so its not really a scholar tool anymore), adloquium was hit with 3 nerfs (higher mp cost, lower mp recovery, and lower crit multiplier). only sacred soil was kept the same, but it isn't enough. Now, just to keep up with the normal healing required, we have to use aetherflow stacks regularly, which I suppose is supposed to encourage us to use the clumbsy fey union. However, we have less spare aetherflow, because we have to use it for standard tank and group healing now, since our spell potency isn't anywhere near up to the task.

Sch has always been the least efficient healer, but also the one with the most mp recovery. We've lost the mp recovery edge, and our efficiency was made even worse. these multiplicative nerfs to scholar have killed any sense of fun with it. At the very least, we deserve an apology, and an explanation of what they were trying to accomplish with it.

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Originally Posted by Tashim

adloquium was hit with 3 nerfs (higher mp cost, lower mp recovery, and lower crit multiplier)

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Woah woah woah, do we have proof of this?

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Originally Posted by Ilenya

Woah woah woah, do we have proof of this?

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Ill try to find where it was said but in one of the letters or interviews they stated they were scaling back the crit damage to make room for direct hit, one could assume its a crit damage nerf across the board but it does hit adlo the most.

I hope SCH gets the changes needed in patch 4.1 or at least 4.2

Since 4.0 launch I've felt and seen the changes in end game content and it is very confusing why they made the changes they did.

Excog and Chainstrat are cool and all and they have there uses but why change what made the SCH so awesome? Their shields are out classed by Astro now and their dps got a huge hit as well. I used to think of a SCH as being a strategist. Doing alot of things at once and making sure the party is getting heals and support where needed. Now I'm struggling to do both. I agree with giving Aetherflow a flat cooldown cost instead of RNG and increase the amount of MP it restores. I honestly don't think we need another stack.

For dps I think they just need to give SCH a new means of DPS instead of carrying over skills from Arcanist/Summoner. (Kinda like how they change Ruin to Broil, but with all their DPS skills) That way when the buff/nerf SCH/SUM they don't get the good/bad from the other.

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Originally Posted by AmelieR

That is just NOT true. Physick (400) heals or me for ~7500 and Fey Union (480) for ~5500. Fey Union can crit for ~8500 but that's the exception, not the rule. Maybe you should test it out

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Meld at least 2 Direct Hit and watch your fairy ticks go from 5.6k to 8.5k.

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Originally Posted by SublimeIbanez

Meld at least 2 Direct Hit and watch your fairy ticks go from 5.6k to 8.5k.

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If that was the original potency on the tether and not a bug I would suggest doing the same...just don't go getting used to it. inb4 the only change we see is the guaranteed crit tether bug fixed.

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Originally Posted by MsTanya

If that was the original potency on the tether and not a bug I would suggest doing the same...just don't go getting used to it. inb4 the only change we see is the guaranteed crit tether bug fixed.

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Which worries me, but this right now makes up a little bit for the sheer clunkiness of the ability.

It wouldnt surprise me honestly if it was simply a mistype on the dev's side, though.

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Originally Posted by SublimeIbanez

Which worries me, but this right now makes up a little bit for the sheer clunkiness of the ability.

It wouldnt surprise me honestly if it was simply a mistype on the dev's side, though.

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I agree right now the tether is actually worth using but if it goes back to being worse than physick spam then why bother...

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Originally Posted by SublimeIbanez

Which worries me, but this right now makes up a little bit for the sheer clunkiness of the ability.

It wouldnt surprise me honestly if it was simply a mistype on the dev's side, though.

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It's quite amazing to see it go from 5.5k a tick to nearly 9k. I think it should be a very high heal considering you're only allowed 3 ticks of it per minute. It's not even oGCD too. Given that this uses gauge, I think the potency, with direct hit, is fine. We just need to increase the range to Bahamut levels (100y) and we're pretty good on that skill. Perhaps other ways to raise the gauge might be nice too, say a x% chance every time embrace is cast (since SE loves RNG procs these days).

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Originally Posted by AmelieR

That is just NOT true. Physick (400) heals or me for ~7500 and Fey Union (480) for ~5500. Fey Union can crit for ~8500 but that's the exception, not the rule. Maybe you should test it out for yourself first?

Edit: On top of that it seems that Fey Union isn't affected by Rouse or Fey Illumination since it's an ability. I did test it and noticed an increased heal with Embrace, but not with Fey Union, rendering that skill even more useless.

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Originally Posted by MsTanya

Fey union heals for 5.5k per tick at ilvl314 physick does 7300 and its 480potency for tether 400potency for physick, it is NOT player potency based.

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There are a couple of ways I can respond to this but I'll go with being civil.

I performed my tests at level 70 just after getting the skill and the new artifact gear (my ilvl was 286 at the time). Physick healed in a range between 5900 and 6350, with crits generally landing between 9000 to 9300. Fey Union healed in a range between 6950 and 7650, and I have personally never seen it crit during any of my testing, though I will confirm that it is unaffected by Fey Illumination and Rouse. I was thinking that maybe this was an ilvl issue and that there was a bug where it scaled depreciatingly with ilvl, but at my current ilvl of 294 it is still performing as I would expect. I will in fact post a video capture of ilvl 286 testing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsQ-9-_-PXw

Out of curiosity, I then stripped naked and tested with everything gone except the book, and while my physick fell to something like 1800, Fey Union healed for as much as 8000.

"Hmm", I thought.

I then resummoned the fairy while naked and tried again, and suddenly fey union was healing for 1200. Upon re-equipping my clothes and restoring Physick to 6500 range, Union continued to heal at about 1200. Resummoning the fairy again while clothed and trying once more, Fey Union returned to my current ilvl's 8k or so. Stat-snapshotting on summon confirmed, I guess.

In all testing I do in full gear Fey Union has always healed at player potency level, and I have not as of yet been able to recreate either of your results. I cannot explain why Union exhibits the fairy tax while naked either, but in gear I have never seen it perform incorrectly. I will test again when I have more Materia VI melded to see if that is bugging it.

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Originally Posted by SublimeIbanez

Meld at least 2 Direct Hit and watch your fairy ticks go from 5.6k to 8.5k.

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And this is my answer. I am still wearing my ilvl 270 belt with a single Direct Hit +12 materia melded. Taking this belt off and resummoning the fairy reduces Fey Union to ticks of around 5500, and putting it back on restores it to player potency levels.

This appears to be a bug where Fey Union requires Direct Hit melded somewhere to perform correctly? It is clearly a bug though.

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Originally Posted by LegoTechnic

And this is my answer. I am still wearing my ilvl 270 belt with a single Direct Hit +12 materia melded. Taking this belt off and resummoning the fairy reduces Fey Union to ticks of around 5500, and putting it back on restores it to player potency levels.

This appears to be a bug where Fey Union requires Direct Hit melded somewhere to perform correctly? It is clearly a bug though. I'll post them a video if it isn't already in the bug report forums.

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Quite possible. It could also be a mistype by the devs when inputting the base stats required for Fey Union to function? Either way, let's hope the 8k ticks remain post fix.

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Originally Posted by LegoTechnic

And this is my answer. I am still wearing my ilvl 270 belt with a single Direct Hit +12 materia melded. Taking this belt off and resummoning the fairy reduces Fey Union to ticks of around 5500, and putting it back on restores it to player potency levels.

This appears to be a bug where Fey Union requires Direct Hit melded somewhere to perform correctly? It is clearly a bug though. I'll post them a video if it isn't already in the bug report forums.

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It is currently bugged where a single point of direct hit will cause it to 100% critically hit. So yes it is much more underwhelming than most are aware of since most likely do meld direct hit and are unaware of this being a thing. So please look forward to the imminent nerf and enjoy an actually decent skill while we have it ;p

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Originally Posted by MsTanya

It is currently bugged where a single point of direct hit will cause it to 100% critically hit. So yes it is much more underwhelming than most are aware of since most likely do meld direct hit and are unaware of this being a thing. So please look forward to the imminent nerf and enjoy an actually decent skill while we have it ;p

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Yeah, testing without Direct Hit, I noticed Fey Union could actually crit, so this is probably correct and it is critting 100% of the time with direct hit melded. Good to know, though I kind of don't want to say anything more because I'm sure the fix to this will make the skill worse (and it's already pretty bad).

SCH is my main since I started FF14 (late 2.x) and it was the first I brought to 70.
I really did feel the nerfs hit hard in the leveling dungeons, where I had to make use of all my tools, just to keep the tank alive at big pulls. Having to actually look at my mana was also new to me. It got a LOT better since reaching 70 though and having 18k+ MP at my disposal - but I do still have to make regular use of LD.

But what really bothered me is, that when I logged onto my lvl62 AST, running a few dungeons, I felt like the "better" healer/shielder in every aspect PLUS throwing buffs all over the place. Its just mind-boggling how the heals/shields on my lvl62 AST are stronger or as strong as on my lvl70 SCH. Maybe this is also a scaling issue-but it feels really weird.
SCH is not "unviable", I was still able to clear the content, but it is in a kind of weird spot right now.
I recommend everyone saying SCH is "strong" to play any of the other healing jobs and then coming back.

I've been maining SCH since the 3.x patches, so no-where near as long as a lot of you, but the general feeling I get is that I've lost the pure "satisfaction" from being a preemptive mitigation healer. At the end of 3.5, there was a real sense of achievement in learning a fight, preempting a big tank-buster with an Adlo or throwing out a Succor for reasonable AOE mitigation and watching as the HP bars in my party took a negligible ding. I was rewarded for anticipating what was coming and setting my team up for success.

Now, however, I can use the same tactics as before, "feel" prepared yet then find myself scrambling to throw out a hastily timed Lustrate or Indom and pray that it crits. Whatever happened, the level of incoming damage seems to completely outstrip my ability to mitigate by an order of magnitude at times, especially on big pulls, and I run the risk of running out of tools to deal with it. There's many factors going on, which fairy is out, how much mitigation the tank is using, whether the poor BLM is out-aggroing the tank, so it's not always the same, but it's that lingering sense the the pure satisfaction has gone - it's almost tiring at times.

If the devs want to focus on anything:

• Adlo & Succor need a better pay-off for the MP - I'd vote for reworking the LVL 68 trait so that it buffs shield potency across the board; I "feel" that I care less about the ability to generate AF stacks and more about improving the robustness of my shields, especially given the spike in the incoming damage curve
• Excog, to mimic a lot of the discussion, needs a better reward - I would love to see it perhaps give timed Invulnerability/1HP stacks to mitigate repeated tank-busters, assuming the target was above 50% HP when it's deployed (Akh Morn would be a great example as it's their new favourite wipe-mechanic) or let us use it to mitigate split-damage mechanics in those odd situations where the target is a million miles away from the group etc. Something genuinely useful and unique.
• Fey Union, I think, just needs rough edges smoothed over - tether range or auto-reposition would be fine, responsiveness absolutely needs addressing; I've lost count of the times I've deployed it and then realised it never did anything...

Ultimately, SCH used to feel like the "in-control" healer, while WHM was more of a "deal with it when it happens" healer. Now I simply don't ever feel like I have much under control and when stuff does hit the fan, I've very limited ability to deal with it, and that's a fun-killer...

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Originally Posted by MsTanya

Ill try to find where it was said but in one of the letters or interviews they stated they were scaling back the crit damage to make room for direct hit, one could assume its a crit damage nerf across the board but it does hit adlo the most.

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It is true. The base CRT went from 5% Rate with 0.45 Multi at base to 5% Rate with 0.4 Multi. So while you will still have the same chance to crit it will be 5% weaker when it does.

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Originally Posted by LegoTechnic

There are a couple of ways I can respond to this but I'll go with being civil.

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I really appreciate your civil tone. But as we all now learned, those constant 8.5k heals are most likely based on an internal calculation bug, causing melded Direct Hit to overwrite the fairy's crit chance. God knows how that happend. I bet you an arm and a leg that even SE doesn't know how they screwed that up. But I have to say that this bug will be useful until they change Fey Union for the better - or make it even worse. We'll see.

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Originally Posted by MajikNET

Ultimately, SCH used to feel like the "in-control" healer, while WHM was more of a "deal with it when it happens" healer. Now I simply don't ever feel like I have much under control and when stuff does hit the fan, I've very limited ability to deal with it, and that's a fun-killer...

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Yeah, we're now pretty much as reactive as a WHM, but with less control therefor. You could say we're now 'out of control' healer. Best we can do is pray and pet Eos - maybe she will feel loved again.

Im just gonna copy what I put in another post cause looks like this is the correct place sorry.

Ok im gonna say something nobody likes.
Ive being also playing Scholar since day 1.
Now in SB at the start I also was like wtf is going on.

MP Problems - MP was drying out very quickly (I didnt had lucid dream cause I never had an issue with MP before), thats when I learned the power of lucid dream, its a bad thing that this is a must and it takes off my space for a E4E that also has longer cooldown that before, but well with this MP is not longer an issue.

Fey Union - Omg im loving this skill! Ofc it has some issues maybe it can be a l fixed a little. But man when u know when and how to use it I even think its OP. Each heal is stronger than a physicks, so its a constant powerfull heal, Im using this a lot in Lakshmi and Susano extreme when I know we are in a part when the tank won move, so I place my eos next to the tank, Fey Union, and dont stop DPSing for abour 40-60 seconds. Its a very good skill to complement with dpsing, the tank wont go down its so powerfull. But again you must know when its the time.


Excognitation sucks, nothing to say here.

Less dots, yeah we lost some but wlel nothing to say, also we lost Virus thats a big problem for me but well thats how things are.

So to finish, yeah maybe in dungeon first dungeons tanks are squishy, but remember we and them arent overgeared for them as we where before. And for expert dungeons im not having a problem at all, dungeons never had being a thing.
And for the primals ex i think its working perfectly, im actually having fun with fey union system.
It doesnt mean they could fix some things, but for me the job is working and for the looks of it ill keep raiding with SCH (I have raided as all healers before).

Not everything is that bad guys t

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Originally Posted by Clouse_Cleyra

MP Problems - MP was drying out very quickly (I didnt had lucid dream cause I never had an issue with MP before), thats when I learned the power of lucid dream, its a bad thing that this is a must and it takes off my space for a E4E that also has longer cooldown that before, but well with this MP is not longer an issue.

Fey Union - Omg im loving this skill! Ofc it has some issues maybe it can be a l fixed a little. But man when u know when and how to use it I even think its OP. Each heal is stronger than a physicks, so its a constant powerfull heal, Im using this a lot in Lakshmi and Susano extreme when I know we are in a part when the tank won move, so I place my eos next to the tank, Fey Union, and dont stop DPSing for abour 40-60 seconds. Its a very good skill to complement with dpsing, the tank wont go down its so powerfull. But again you must know when its the time.

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It's true that LD solves the MP reg issue, but that shouldn't be the case with SCH. We already had a MP reg skill which worked perfectly fine in 2.x and 3.x, but SE decided to make LD available to every healer. They then had to nerf Aetherflow to balance things out, leaving SCH with two but one MP reg skills. Just plain bad design choices.

As for Fey Union, it is noticeable less than a Physick. Read the past few posts and you'll see that there is a bug with Direct Hit that causes the heal of Fey Union to crit constantly. Saying it's fine 'cause it's bugged is like saying Volkswagen is fine because the other car manufactures cheated in their engine software as well. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Edit: Regarding Fey Union, I have now melded +9 Direct Hit into my shabby ilvl288 ring (nothing else melded) and can indeed confirm that Fey Union now heals constantly for ~8500. Doesn't make any sense to me since Direct Hit should only apply to damage dealt, but I wont complain.

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Originally Posted by AmelieR

It's true that LD solves the MP reg issue, but that shouldn't be the case with SCH. We already had a MP reg skill which worked perfectly fine in 2.x and 3.x, but SE decided to make LD available to every healer. They then had to nerf Aetherflow to balance things out, leaving SCH with two but one MP reg skills. Just plain bad design choices.

As for Fey Union, it is noticeable less than a Physick. Read the past few posts and you'll see that there is a bug with Direct Hit that causes the heal of Fey Union to crit constantly. Saying it's fine 'cause it's bugged is like saying Volkswagen is fine because the other car manufactures cheated in their engine software as well. Two wrongs don't make a right.

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Yeah its true we didnt had any MP problems before, but its balancing, its not fair that are classes have MP issues while we dont I think.
Also I dont think I crit or have direct hit but I cant confirm this I will check, still on the skill it says that fey union heal is stornger than a physicks thats why when I saw the number actually being higher (because all the fairy stat are different discussion) I didnt gave it to much thought, will re-confirm.

Anyway im just saying the job is playable and I think it can do any content, Im having a blast on primals ex and just waiting for Omega Savage ^^

The actually great big hit for me where Virus and the added CD on Eye for an eye, but nobody is even talking about them xD

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Originally Posted by Clouse_Cleyra

Yeah its true we didnt had any MP problems before, but its balancing, its not fair that are classes have MP issues while we dont I think.
Also I dont think I crit or have direct hit but I cant confirm this I will check, still on the skill it says that fey union heal is stornger than a physicks thats why when I saw the number actually being higher (because all the fairy stat are different discussion) I didnt gave it to much thought, will re-confirm.

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Well, they could have left Aetherflow as it was and just not grant us access to LD. It was always a part of out kit to restore MP with Aetherflow, and now our own spells feels like a second class skill compared to the role skill. Call it a theft on our jobs identity if you so desire.

The heal from Fey Union doesn't 'crit' in that term. It's not a larger written number that pops up, it is just a bigger number. Without melding Direct Hit the heals looks like... 5500 - 5200 - 8500 - 5400. Please note that the '8500' is written in the same size and font like the regular heals. With Direct Hit its like... 8200 - 8100 - 8900 ect. I think you catch the drift. Also, since Fey Union is a fairy ability, it does use (unless a dev states otherwise) fairy potency and does not gain benefits from Rouse or Illumination.

And yes, of course the job is playble and you can do every content. Heck, I run my duties as SCH because I LOVE the job. But with the changes made in SB it's just not fun anymore. The fairy is still clunky, Fey Union requires an incredibly long wind up animation and the fairy happily burn the fey-meter even when she can't heal because the tank ran away from her. Our shields are laughable and outclassed by the hybrid healer AST. Our damage output, if any, is outclassed by WHM. We're only best at puns in the moment because WE ARE THE PUN.