Personal SCH feedback.

Hello everyone,

Yes another Scholar feedback thread but if we dont let the devs hear how many voices are crying out then they cant gauge accurately how to fix things. Also is there a way to get past the 1000 character limit?

To start off with I have mained SCH since I began playing 2 years ago in ARR. At first I didnt like the class but soon found out just how busy it was and loved always being able to contribute /something!/ to the raid. Also Crit Aldo was awesome.

Then comes SB and I instantly felt the pain that came with it, so im just going to list the things I notced.

DPS-
Yes SCH is a healer, but it was nice to be able to throw adlo on a tank, stance dance into cleric, drop 4 dots onto a boss, stance dance back to healing, and heal the tank up to full. You didnt have to sit around waiting for the tank to take damage, you could help kill things faster even if just by a tiny bit. It held complexity and was honestly fun for me to try and time it right so you didnt end up killing your tank.

Healing-
Ugh...its just painful now. I end up spamming Pysick because Aldo and Succor cost soooo much more mana now. Its boring and uneventful. SCH has all these little niche skills but its difficult to utilize them properly because your sitting on only 3 atherflows since ARR. More skills that use Atherflow but no extra Aetheflows.

Skills-

Aldo and Succor cost way to much mana to use like we are supposed too. As well as being ridiculously weaker to a Noct stance AST.

Sacred Soil consuming a precious aetherflow for 10% reduction in that local area isnt worth it more often then not. Its better to save that aetherflow for an Indom instead.

Aetherflow The reduction in mana return as well as only getting 3 every 60 seconds make it more of a hindrance then a help.

Fairy-
Selene is pretty garbage. In HW I loved Selene because I often used Fey Caress and Fey Wind. But with the reduction in Embrace down from 300 to 250 she can no longer heal enough to justify having such a situational kit. I also noticed faires taking much more damage from npcs in dungeons. Some chunking my 24k hp fairy for 15k hp. Now my fairy makes a choice to heal the lowest party member, itself. Which means its now not healing anyone else. I then need to make a choice. I either let the fairy keep healing itself for a pitiable 2.5k per embrace, or I heal it. But then, I am no longer healing the party, the fairy isnt healing the party, no one is healing the party. The loss of sustain is keenly felt here.

Eos isnt much better but at least shes got an AoE HoT and can increase healing a bit.

Dissipation-
WHY do we even have this skill...I have only EVER used this button ONCE in the time since it was released. Its pure folly to dissipate your fairy for just about every reason.

Fey Union
Same problem as Dissipation in uselessness. Its weak, It only has a short range (12y iirc) The fairy stays stuck in position and wont follow its target meaning if your tank steps back, the link breaks and now its not doing its job. It takes 10 Aetherflows to max it out, thats a minimum of 3 minuets to be able to use it for any length of time, but honestly I dont spam out my precious Aetherflows in a single minuet. Since its a fairy skill it takes a few seconds for the command to be used processes and thus makes it pretty hard to use without just wasting it, especially in raids where another healer just tops off the Fey Unioned tank and now your fairy is spitting healing energy at a full target.

Overall-
I find that SCH has become very bland. Your dps consists of dropping 2 dots and spamming Broil 12 times, maybe using shadowflare if its off its 60 second CD. Fairies feel far too weak and take far too much damage that they shouldnt. Our mana cost for skills that are supposed to be our core is too high and do too little. Our very identity feels compromised and its just not fun to play when other classes do your job better.

Thanks for reading, I hope this helps =)

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