Yet another healer rework. For fun.

Starting with Scholar.

SCH

Aetherflow has been reworked. Fey Blessing has been removed.

New Job Gauge: (Schematics) Can hold a maximum of 4 Schema Points- Essentially a renaming of AF.

Broil (Ruin-I-IV), Bio (I-II) and Biolysis , Adloquium, Succor, Resurrection, Consolation and Ruin II are unchanged.

Libra (New Skill) 20s CD/15Yalms -Finds the enemy target's weak points, increasing the Scholar's critical strike chance against it by 10% for 10 seconds. Restores 400 MP and grants 1 Schema.

Aetherohelix (New Skill) [1xSchema] 5s CD/30Yalms- Deals unaspected damage to target with a potency of 100. Grants 15 FG.

Tabula Rasa (New Skill) [3xSchema] 60s CD/15YalmsRadius -Transforms all in range current active Biolysis and Galvanize Effects into Kaustra and Embrava effects.

-Kaustra: Target becomes immune to Biolysis for 30s. Absorbs the next amount of damage done by the target with a potency of 300 ( 1x Galvanize effect ). Once the effect ends deals unaspected damage with a potency of 900 (Biolysis + 3x Aetherohelix) to target. Lasts for 30s or until effect ends.

-Embrava: Heals target over time with a potency of 60. Affected targets gain 3% SkS and SpS for the duration. Lasts 30s.

Deployment Tactics (Changed Skill) [1xSchema] 60s CD/30Yalms/15YalmsRadius -Spreads Biolysis effects on nearby enemies or Galvanize effects on nearby allies.

Emergency Tactics (Changed Skill) [1xSchema] 60s CD -Next healing spell becomes instant cast and ensures a critical hit.

Dissipation (Changed Skill) 90s -Converts up to 90 Fey Gauge points into up to 3 Schema. 1 Schema for every 30 Fey Gauge points.

Recitation (Changed Skill) 180s CD -Allows the use of the next Action or without using Schema or Fey Gauge.

Chain Stratagem (Changed Skill) [1xSchema] FG 120s CD -Increases the critical strike chance and critical damage done against the target by 10% for 15 seconds.

Meltdown (New Spell) [Same as RuinII] 30Yalms Instant -Deals unaspected damage to target with a potency of XXX and inflicts enemies around the target with 5% slow.

Traits:

Aetherflow: Grants 5 Fey Gauge points upon casting Broil (I-IV), Art of War, Ruin II, Meltdown, Adloquium, Physick or Succor.
Broil (I-IV), Meltdown, Adloquium and Physick critical effects grant 10 Fey Gauge points instead.

Ruin Mastery: Critical hits with Broil and Art of War have a chance to upgrade Ruin II to Meltdown.

Healing Skills:

Aetherpact: Commands your Fairy to attach herself to the target increasing the critical chance of your healing spells against it by 5%. While attached to the target, your fairy will cast Embrace on it. Lasts till canceled.
Using Summon Seraph will cancel Aetherpact. The fairy will still be able to use her other skills normally while attached to a target. If the target moves too far from the Scholar, the fairy will teleport back to her.

Lustrate: Same potency. Now costs 35 Fey gauge instead.

Indomitability: Same potency and CD. Now costs 20 Fey Gauge instead. Fires off from the Fairy.

Excogitation: Same potency and CD. Now costs 20 Fey Gauge instead.

Sacred Soil: Same potency, effects and CD. Now costs 10 Fey Gauge instead. Drops down from the Fairy.

Fey Illumination: Unchanged

Whispering Dawn: Unchanged

Summon Seraph 120s CD: Summons an upgraded version of your Fairy. Works the same than before. Grants 100 points of Fey Gauge.

Fairy Changes:

Lilly no longer casts Embrace while on the field.- She will only cast Embrace when attached to a target via the Aetherpact action.

Lilly will no longer move on its own. She has now two modes: Shoulder mode and Placement Mode.

When on shoulder mode, she will move as one with her summoner. She will effectively not be on the battlefield, rather, she will essentially be attached to the Scholar.

When on placement mode, she will stay static on the designated point of the battlefield. Her flight speed has been adjusted to allow her to almost instantly move to the designated point in the battlefield, ensuring prompt response to Scholar's intentions.

When using Summon Seraph, the upgraded Fairy will substitue Lilly wherever on the battlefield she happens to be.

When out of combat and with your fairy present, you will generate 20 Fey Gauge points per second.

I have deliberately omited potencies for most new skills. Suggestions appreciated.

1. These changes to the fairy will make her disappear even more, since placement matters a lot less without the constant embraces and laggy follow.
   
   
2. This aetherflow trait will grant massive amounts of Fey Gauge, way more than you can possibly use on healing. GCDs alone will grant you enough Fey Gauge to use Dissipation on cooldown. 3 Libras per minute + Dissipation makes for 7 Schemas per minute. If you blow all of these on Aetherohelix in the Libra window, you get 140 Fae Gauge back. Per minute. And Dissipation is already on CD. Since Indom/Lustrate/Sacred Soil/Exco have the same potencies, this is the same as ShB SCH having 7 Aetherflow stacks per minute, without the DPS opportunity cost of Energy Drain. This is without counting in Seraph, which brings in a fresh 50 per minute. I don't have to explain how this deluge of resources obliterates any requirement for careful management. You'll always have enough Fey Gauge for everything.
   
   
3. This version of Chain Stratagem is fairly weak, especially since it has to be counted against 3 crit Aetherohelix.
   
   
4. Most of the new cooldown-based Schema skills have to be counted against crit Aetherohelix in terms of DPS alone (since healing skills are basically freebies).
   
   
   1. Emergency Tactics looks a lot like swiftcast. Using it on a Broil will give you ~140 extra potency (x1.5 crit) assuming you wouldn't have crit otherwise. No good against crit Aetherohelix.
      
      
   2. Deployment Tactics is worth it and becomes the new Bane.
      
      
   3. For Tabula Rasa to be worth it its Kaustra effect needs to deal more damage than crit Aetherohelix. Since there's no potencies there's no way to tell.
   
   
5. These are a lot of OGCDs to use. I really hope Meltdown is a separate button to Ruin II, not just an in-place upgrade, and that its proc chance is fairly high, otherwise there's just gonna be a shitton of Ruin II weaving.

Given that I changed FG to be the resource of oGCD healing it worried me we would not have the instant stacks that AF grants so I changed what skills granted FG. Initially, none of the Schema skills granted FG and the only way to produce FG was the use of GCD Casts.

Aetherohelix wasn't initially in my design but it worried we did not have a SCH dump in case we got too many.

Initially, I had designed Indomitability and Sacred Soil to fire off from the fairy but it felt too clunky, especially for SS. I wanted to give the Fairy placement and who you'd assign her too a lot of importance.