Scholars, check in!

Who out there is thinking about playing Scholar as their main job at launch?

I've been a long-time healer/White Mage in FFXIV, and while I enjoy it, I'm looking forward to a new spin on healing, and the Scholar's ability set looks pretty fun. Heals, shields, AOE shields and buffs, and a healing pet that can heal or give buffs either on its own or by your command. Unless some sort of severe bug or imbalance is found that makes Scholars unviable as main healers, that's what I'll be focusing on in group content and for endgame.

If you've got any useful tips to share about the Job as we enter Early Access and the official launch, post them up so we can help Scholars everywhere level up their skills!

Cannae wait cannae wait cannae wait! =D

I'm really looking forward to it, given the leaked information on skills.

I just wish Scholars had different armor designs.

I will at the very least look forward to checking it out. White Mage was my main job in 1.0, and I even went through the three dungeons in Phase 4 as arcanist by healing the party. Will be interesting to see what tools Scholar brings.

I'm maining Scholar because of the AF design and I don't mind healing. It's fun if the mechanics is fun. I don't like Vanilla healing mechanics like White Mage. My question about Scholar is if we can customize pet behavior via gambit system. I heard this game uses that, but I haven't found the configuration UI for it. I want my pet to be independant. I don't want to have to press buttons for it to do a certain action because I'll be busy with my own thing.

Due to shields and damage reduction area effects, Scholars looks to be more suited for fights with very heavy hitting bosses, especially if they have one-shot moves. White Mage seem to be better with area heals.

WHM and SCH main here

I was able to get my friends to come back 14 and it was decided I had to heal so definitely going to try it out ^^

Scholar checking in!

I'm definitely looking forward to trying SCH out :) I love healing rolls and am really interested to see how this is going to pan out for groups

Scholar and/or White Mage! Looking forward to trying both and picking the one that feels the best for me. :)