Newbie trying at healing with Scholar

Good evening

I'm currently leveling up my first healer class which is a Scholar as you can see.
One thing that I don't know is what attributes do I need on Scholar?
What I recently read was that healers are supposed to deal dmg besides healing (I never looked at my healers when doing dungeons, I just focus on the mob around the party since I've played all 3 Tank classes), is it still a thing? What can you tell me about this?
Also I would like to know what cross-class skills are recommended for Scholars.
And if it's possible, it would be great if someone can post a guide.

Thank you in advance

MND is your primary stat. Even when you are DPSing, MND is what you want.

DPS is a choice for healer's but most people encourage it, and a lot of people dislike healer's who do not DPS. The reason you will want MND, and not INT, for your damage spells is because of Cleric Stance. When you activate Cleric Stance (CS from now on) you will switch your MND and INT stats, plus increase damage of spells by 10% but lower healing power by 20%. So the basic rule is this: Never heal in CS, and only deal damage with CS.

DPSing as a SCH is ridiculously easy, especially in low level dungeons due to them getting free heals from their Fairy. The Fairy is not effected by your GCD or CS. It's a good idea to get use to DPSing as a SCH because they are expected to deal damage more often then the other healer's, since their kit makes it so much easier.

SCH best cross class skills are as follows (in no particular order): Cleric Stance, Aero, Protect, Swiftcast, Stoneskin. I know some SCH like to take Blizzards II though, so that's a thing.
If asked I would say CS and Swiftcast are by far the most important cross class abilities for a SCH to know. My brother is pretty obsessed with Aero at low levels though.

Yes you should be doing damage, especially as a sch because of the way the class is designed, you'll have eos healing and mitigating damage giving you ample time to contribute dps. Get used to using her on obey. If you're using selene she will only single target heal with embrace.

Mind then critical hit rate and accuracy for your secondary stats, because damage nullification is doubled when your adlo crits, also it will boost your dps. If you're going to be raiding or doing ex primals you'll want to prioritize accuracy before crit.

You'll need several abilities from cnj and thm, those being; cleric stance, protect, aero and stoneskin. You'll need swiftcast from thm.

As far as a guide goes..m I personally don't think they do much good for healers. There are no real rotations you need to worry about, and healing spells are pretty straight forward.

familiarize yourself well with your mitigation skills and learn how to pump out large amounts of sustained/burst healing if required. Once those skills are firm and mastered, you then learn how to coordinate your healing/mitigation with your tank and co-healer. THEN finally do you learn your DPS, this is the pinnacle of your game. Don't make the mistake of learning how to 100% DPS first, there are and will be content that requires co-healing.

PS: Virus is your friend, learn all the possible applications of it and use it so much it becomes instinct. The proper and efficient usage of this skill alone will put you above 70% of the end-game SCHs currently already in this game.

Here's the deal with healer DPS: Mob health hits zero, no one looks at you. Party member(s) health hits zero, everyone looks at you. The expectation to DPS is higher with SCH, but killing mobs will always be second to keeping everyone alive no matter which healer you choose.

Prioritization for cross skills is as follows: Cleric Stance >> Protect >> Swiftcast >> Aero >> Blizzard 2 >> your choice of Surecast or Stoneskin, both of which are extremely situational and really won't make or break anything.

If you have no other healer classes @30, then I strongly suggest taking your SCH into the early dungeons despite being level 30. As I am sure you are aware, damage ramps up in the 30+ dungeons and pulls start getting heavier. I wouldn't do 30+ stuff until you are comfortable and familiar with your fairy; you have her on obey, and are strategically placing her when possible.

Most guides I've read are outdated. Experience, making mistakes, and learning from them are your best friends here.

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Originally Posted by Gemina

Prioritization for cross skills is as follows: Cleric Stance >> Protect >> Swiftcast >> Aero >> Blizzard 2 >> your choice of Surecast or Stoneskin, both of which are extremely situational and really won't make or break anything.

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You're prioritizing bliz2 and surecast over stoneskin.. lol. You know, when you're paired with an ast and they have to cast stoneskin 8 times every pull they might not agree with your decision.

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Originally Posted by ChiiSoSeriouz

You're prioritizing bliz2 and surecast over stoneskin.. lol. You know, when you're paired with an ast and they have to cast stoneskin 8 times every pull they might not agree with your decision.

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I'll agree with this. Yes, Bliz2 is good DPS filler for massive pulls, but I would not take it over Stoneskin unless for a specific purpose. I think the last time I slotted it was before my break from the game and I was using it to help AoE in progression in A2S or something.

There is no room for Surecast, and Stoneskin is very handy for dungeon runs and for boss invuln phases if you have nothing better to do.

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Originally Posted by ChiiSoSeriouz

You're prioritizing bliz2 and surecast over stoneskin.. lol. You know, when you're paired with an ast and they have to cast stoneskin 8 times every pull they might not agree with your decision.

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I agree, as well as stoneskin + adlo is insane for pulls or just to throw on before a boss to give you more time to dps in 4 mans. I have found 0 reasons to put bliz2 or surecast on my sch and no one has given me a good argument as to a reason to place them there. Bliz2 over aero maybe for faceroll dungeons, but that's it.

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Originally Posted by ChiiSoSeriouz

You're prioritizing bliz2 and surecast over stoneskin.. lol. You know, when you're paired with an ast and they have to cast stoneskin 8 times every pull they might not agree with your decision.

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Nah, I'll take blizz 2 anyday over those, and I didn't prioritize Surecast over SS. I left it OP's choice. SCH has adlo, succor, and eye4eye on a shorter CD than those who cross it. These are enough to get up both Shadow Flare and Bane, and that is without mention of fairy heals.

Trust me, I've tried both combinations. The additional damage mitigation is nice, but it really doesn't weigh against the dmg output on large pulls from blizz 2 and your fairy is keeping you in Cleric. And even when the mob pool is too small to warrant blizz 2, I'd sooner use my CD on broil than SS. AST need only cast stoneskin on the tank pre pull, and I would frown at one who casts SS on everyone pre pull. If it makes them more comfortable before a boss, sure. But on trash?

I didn't mean to start a debate, just wanted to share different viewpoints.

The post above is a work in progress and still needs a lot of work. My goal is to make it a starter to intermediate guide for healing and specifically scholar.

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Originally Posted by RizenSaga

https://rizensaga.wordpress.com/author/rizensaga/
https://rizensaga.wordpress.com/healer-dps/

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I have one complaint.

I understand that some SCH like to macro different fairy abilities and such, but macros also can't queue like regular skills can. I don't see any macros at the moment for Physick+Embrace, just ones for regular SCH skills.
FFXIV is not built for heavy use of macros, unlike other MMOs. Most people discourage macro use, especially for healers.

Just to chime in on Cross Class, I'm going to say avoid Surecast, but interchange Blizzard II and Stoneskin. Blizzard II is a significant DPS increase when you don't have broil, with just 2 targets. It is a good DPS increase at 4, but even in Expert there are pulls with 10+ mobs (500 potency every gcd compared to 170.)

Protect, Cleric Stance, Aero, and Swiftcast are absolute. In Trials there is almost never AOE opportunity, therefore you should be using Stoneskin in case you do get paired with that AST. Anywhere that you can AOE (2+ mobs before 54, 4+ after 54) use Blizzard II. It's 2 second cast time instead of 2.5 leaves room to quickly exit CS and Lustrate while minimizing clipping into the GCD compared to broil. Blizzard II is a massive DPS increase, it's just not always applicable.

A handy macro to switch between Stoneskin and Blizzard II in one click I made is:

/Macrolock
/echo You are switching your cross class skills. The following skill will be disabled:
/recast "Stoneskin"
/recast "Blizzard II"
/aaction "Blizzard II"
/aaction "Stoneskin"
/aaction "Blizzard II" on
/chotbar action "Stoneskin" 8 13
/chotbar action "Blizzard II" 8 13
/echo Your current cross class has been changed to the following:
/recast "Stoneskin"
/recast "Blizzard II"

On a PC use /hotbar instead of /chotbar. Use your hotbar number (I used 8) and slot number on that bar (I used 13.)

Learn to keep your fairy on Obey, especially Eos. This lets you manually cast Embrace (place it on your action bar!) on the target you want more often than the fairy would by herself. Remember to use your fairy abilities: Rouse + Fey Illumination + Whispering Dawn (Eos) is extremely powerful AoE regen for your party and Fey Covenant (Eos) shields your party from magic damage. Fey Wind (Selene) is a nice 3% attack speed that's up 50% of the time and Fey Caress (Selene) can remove a detrimental effect (like a DoT) from all party members once a minute. You can use all fairy abilities to heal while you yourself are in Cleric Stance and doing DPS.

When DPSing in dungeons, first Swiftcast Shadow Flare (and in most situations, prioritise this over Sacred Soil! It doesn't only do DPS but also slows the enemies so the tank will get hit by less damage), then choose your target for DoTs and cast Bio II + Miasma + Bio and Bane them on the whole group. Also use Miasma II, you'll have to be near the monster group to hit. On single target, use Aero as the 4th DoT instead of Miasma II.

Remember to use Eye for an Eye on tank as often as it's up and Virus when a monster is casting something that hits hard. Between pulls, you can shield your tank with both Adlo and Stoneskin (but Adlo takes priority if you can only cast one, it's stronger).

For stats, as level 60 you'll want ACC to 592 (if you're planning to raid), then CRIT (!!!) > SpS > DET.

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Originally Posted by VanilleFang

I have one complaint.

I understand that some SCH like to macro different fairy abilities and such, but macros also can't queue like regular skills can. I don't see any macros at the moment for Physick+Embrace, just ones for regular SCH skills.
FFXIV is not built for heavy use of macros, unlike other MMOs. Most people discourage macro use, especially for healers.

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As far as the extremely valid points you've brought up I do intend to touch on them all, and probably should have started with them, but when I started the site I was far less interested in those aspects then what I did write about at those moments.

I've only been back on FFXIV for about three weeks. I was an amazing scholar 18 months ago. Today I'm average but am trying to improve myself. My macro's aren't my old ones, those are long gone. The muscle memory has also left me, but I'm now free to alter my style and I'm doing so currently and frequently. Hopefully I can put a side by side comparison one day on stacking GCD's and Macro's because there is a positive to each one, it just depends on the sacrifice/player skill/and if the trade is ultimately worth it. To not test this and instead follow common beliefs would be to err.

I do have fairy macro's but as so much of my ffxiv life they are still a work in progress.

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Originally Posted by ChiiSoSeriouz

You're prioritizing bliz2 and surecast over stoneskin.. lol. You know, when you're paired with an ast and they have to cast stoneskin 8 times every pull they might not agree with your decision.

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Whyyyyyyyyy are you stoneskinning every pull. Are you mad?

Excuse you. You should stoneskin the party the party before every pull. You're wearing yafaemi gear and dungeon jewelry on your healer so maybe if you did actual raids in this game you would know something as simple as that.

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Originally Posted by RizenSaga

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As an ex-SCH main (currently leveling it on this character as I miss it) I have tried multiple types of macros and I have come full circle from using none, to using some, to using a lot to using none again.

Examples include:

a) <tt> heals and damage spells. So I could be lazy and just heal the tank if I'm targetting the mobs and vice versa. Not only are these annoying (less control) but they also can't be queued.
b) Adding Embrace to healing spells. Same as above.
c) putting Eos abilities all in one macro. Annoying, and Eos Queue is messed up and has weird delays.
d) Aetherflow on insta-cast spells. I just find these annoying.

I dislike being unable to queue spells, and restricting my control over what I am doing. If you like and can use macros, then you can use them if you want, but they are much less efficient in most situations compared to non-macro'd spells.


I don't understand how you can compare Aero to Surecast (Aero is a thousand times better) or how you can't state it is a core cross-class ability. If anything it should be:

1st) CS
2nd) Aero
3rd) Protect
4th) Swiftcast
5th) Stoneskin/Blizzard II

In any order you feel most comfortable with. No one playing seriously should even consider Surecast as an option. Its basically a joke. It isn't useful in most situations, since in most situations you aren't in danger of being interrupted. And in situations that would call for it (very few) Swiftcast is a better option that also has uses outside of these situations.

Not using Aero 99% of the time is a personal choice. But it is one I greatly disapprove of. (I love Aero. Its the best.)

I will add my voice to the Bliz2 over stoneskin or surecast

first because Surecast is less than useful honestly
And also bliz2 is amazing in pack DPS (which was good in A2S but less and less after on the raid scene, but still perfect in dungeon)
Stoneskin is a pure manaloss for a sch compare to Adlo => In raid as main Ast I do prefer to be the one to cast 8 stoneskin... because it allow me to draw card XD

And aero is mandatory as SCH you can't have Bliz2 over aero, because this spell is a must have.

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Originally Posted by ChiiSoSeriouz

Excuse you. You should stoneskin the party the party before every pull. You're wearing yafaemi gear and dungeon jewelry on your healer so maybe if you did actual raids in this game you would know something as simple as that.

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*sigh* But the OP isn't even close to touching raid content with her healer, or has made any indication about wanting to do them. Not everyone does, but everyone does have to go through the leveling stages, and I've never seen any healer stoneskin the entire party before every pull in this content. Not even WHMs who get SSII. This would slow things down immensely. In 50 roulette, you'd be lucky to get two of them off before you're left in the dust.

@Stoneskin versus Blizzard II debate:

Blizzard II will give you more mileage overall in dungeon runs. Four targets with Blizzard II will out pace Broil's damage and supplement your killing potential once DoTs have been applied and Bane'd. You'll rarely need Stoneskin in a dungeon and any time you may need to mitigate anything in a dungeon, Adlo is more than enough for it.

For any 24-mans / 8-mans, you're generally better with Stoneskin. The extra (and longer than 30s) mitigation that Stoneskin provides has benefits to weakened players and can allow them to survive things that are normally not survivable in a weakened state.

Since you'll know what sort of content you'll be participating in, you can adjust your cross class appropriately prior to engaging said content.

Hello everyone

I opened the thread because I seek for help and I was looking for some suggestions.
So could you stop discussing whether to use skill X in Dungeon/Raid Y or not? It seems a bit out of topic.

Currently I turned my Arcanist into a Scholar and I switched all the attributes from Int to Mnd.
What I'm struggling with are the skills that I should use for doing regular PvE such as Quests, Dungeons, Trials, etc.
About dps, should I just use DoT skills like Miasma/Miasma 2, Bio/Bio2? What about Ruin and Ruin 2?
Also I don't understand the management of my familiar. Do I have to use Selene or Eos? It seems like that Selene is more like the support and Eos is the pure healer.
While using "Obey" will Eos still cast the healing on the party member? What should I be aware of?


Thank you for your replies.

PS: I'm not a hardcore player and I would say that I'm still a beginner since I don't understand a lot. Scholar is also my first Healer class and my 2nd class that I've really wanted to play.

When DPSing your first priority would be to apply / reapply your DoTs. 100% DoT uptime is ideal but may require some practice and situational awareness. Also don't reapply DoTs unless they're at around 3 seconds or less remaining on the duration. Obviously you won't be able to reapply DoTs in a period where the tank / party is taking a lot of damage. In lull periods where you don't need to reapply DoTs ot heal, use Ruin to fill in gaps in DPS and use Ruin II as a means to move for mechanics while maintaining damage.

When players talk about pet management, they mean to use the pet cooldowns in a way that are beneficial for yourself and your party. Usually this means keeping your Fairy on Obey and micro managing your Fairy to do things for you. Even on Obey Eos / Selene will automatically use Embrace once players go below a certain HP% threshold but since Fairy's healing is free, it's generally best to make a macro of sorts that allows you to spam the Fairy embrace regardless of the targets HP%.

This can be done in two ways

(1) as a mouse over macro.
(2) as a macro you use say every 15-20s that automatically spams embrace on a specific target

I personally use three macros - two that spams heal on the 2nd and 3rd slot (where my tanks default too) and a mouse over macro for more spot healing for collateral damage non-tank players may get during an encounter.

Afterwards, it's a matter of managing each fairy cooldown and using them in an appropriate scenario. ie Rouse (an ability you'll get later that boosts the power of the pet temporarily) + Whispering Dawn are a great way to get people up to full health after an AoE. Just take into account that is it a HoT and if anything requires immediate healing, you should step in to help your fairy out as well.

As you have rightfully noticed Selene is more of a support while Eos is a pure healer. Both have their applications though the common consensus is Eos tends to give you more DPS uptime and thus your individual contribution from your DPS will be more beneficial than Selene's buffs. I won't go into the theorycraft of that at this point but just know that's how most people approach fairy selection.

From a more generic healer standpoint - your ability to heal well comes with your ability to adapt and learn to all the situations you'll be faced. A good healer will be able to keep the party health in good state, minimize overhealing (and by extension resource waste), and still contribute heavily via DPS during lull periods. Don't expect to be able to do all of this on your first attempt, but these provide a good guideline on what to aim for and how to optimize for. Translating that into SCH speak, you'll want to understand what your fairy is capable of doing and what you (as the master) need to do to compliment your fairy's healing to survive the encounters.

I did my first dungeon as Scholar.
Tbh it was really exhausting (I never thought that!).
I set Eos to Obey, and in the beginning of a pull I always try to use Bio 2, Miasma, Bio (with Cleric Stance, in this order) then spread it to the close enemies.
After that my Tank already lost 1/3 of his health bar lol.
What can I do better? How can I improve the mechanic?
Also is there a way to let Eos spam Embrace to every party member that has already lost some HP? (I struggled with "Embrace" the most.)

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Proper understanding when to dps and heal takes practuce, and sometimes your tank is just the sort of tank that won't let you dps effectively. From what you said there isn't much else you can do. Just keep an eye on your teams health and heal as needed.

Your tank losing 1/3 his health bar isn't bad. He's still a long ways off from dying. The best you can do is dps for as long as is comfortable, then heal, then return to dps. It's really hard to explain because you kind of get a "feel" for it and everyone is different.

As for Embrace? It has a recast time of 3 seconds, so you can't really spam it.

There's something that hasn't really been mentioned so far, in regards to healing. Your team doesn't need to be at 100% at all times. Generally you can ignore healing dps directlt. You can usually allow HoTs/Eos heal them, at their leisure. And your tank is generally fine with 50% of their HP, unless they are particularly squishy or they stand in a lot of bad. It's best to get onto the habit of understanding the amount of damage going out and knowing if your team can take it at their current HP levels. Again, it comes with practice.

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If a tank is down to 60-70% there is nothing to worry about (aside from tankbusters). Eos/Selene doesn't auto-embrace below 80%, so you'd expect that at this point the fairy is casting it. You can manually trigger embrace by putting it on a keybind, you can macro it for mouse-over (if you play KB/mouse) or the target's target to so you can spam it while DPSing. You can also make a macro that spams it a few times for you, but I'd not recommend doing that. However, focussing on micro'ing embraces takes away from more important things to learn, auto-embrace does it's work fine most of the time.

As a rule of thumb, if the tank drops below 50% within the first 2 gcds (aka, the tank is bad).. get out of cleric and start healing, and be very wary to go back to cleric. If he loses about 30% every 2-3 gcds, wait for the tank to drop to ~30% before healing him (it means if you fuck up cleric, you can still save him.. maybe), unless you know heavy damage is incoming. If you plan on applying all DoTs in a row, it's good top off the tank and give him a shield first so you have some buffer.

What you'd have to learn is estimating how quickly a tank is dropping.. based off this estimation you can decide whether it's safe to continue DPSing or whether the tank heals heals, or whether you should spam adlo's (you do this if you're struggling to keep up) or go with adlo -> physick (is more MP efficient, and prevents early shield overriding). This can also be extended to other situations.

The better you get at predicting damage, the more efficient you can heal and DPS.

My OP was a bit hasty, and kinda started. the debate so I apologize for that. The healer community isn't exactly a unified one. Many debates here.

Anywho, I'm curious which dungeon you tried first. If you had access to bio II then I am guessing Haukke Manor, or worst, Brayflox. Again, I think it's really important you participate in the early dungeons where damage isn't as punishing. It's a huge difference that you spent 30 levels dpsing as ACN opposed to WHM who has already been healing since day 1.

As for embrace, the big reason people spam it is to get the spell speed buff and can't be bothered waiting for HP bars to drop below 80%. You can also squeeze it in during any of your many 2.5 second cast time abilities. This is more advanced SCH play and I wouldn't worry about it too much until you become proficient with controlling your fairy's other abilities.

It can be very difficult to predict incoming damage in the leveling stages, let alone a PUG. But just know it is perfectly OK and good to make mistakes if you learn from them. It's also perfectly acceptable to interrupt and offensive spell to go into heal mode. It might make the difference between keeping your tank up, or letting them drop

Out of curiosity what dungeon were you running on SCH? Probably easier to gauge "what's up" if we know what dungeon you ran since some dungeons are harder to heal versus others.

Your "difficulty" to heal will also depend on your party and their skill level. If you're wanting to "spam Embrace to every party member that has already lost some HP" that sounds to me either your DPS aren't dodging AoEs properly or your tank isn't holding hate well and thus you're having to heal more than needed as normally you shouldn't need to spam Embrace on DPS, just spot heal them on occasion. Of course that could be me misinterpreting that statement too.

This is what I use for my "spam Embrace on tank macro"

/pac Obey
/echo <pet> >>> <2>
/pac Embrace <2> <wait.1>
/pac Embrace <2> <wait.1>
/pac Embrace <2> <wait.1>
/pac Embrace <2> <wait.1>
/pac Embrace <2> <wait.1>
/pac Embrace <2> <wait.1>
/pac Embrace <2> <wait.1>
/pac Embrace <2> <wait.1>
/pac Embrace <2> <wait.1>
/pac Embrace <2> <wait.1>
/pac Embrace <2> <wait.1>
/pac Embrace <2> <wait.1>
/echo ---Healing Completed---

I pretty much tap this macro as soon as the tank establishes hate on all the targets. Repeat as necessary. The <2> represents the second party member which is your tank if you use the default party organization. Change as necessary and use a <3> (or appropriate number) if you want a second macro in a two-tank 8-man party.

This is the macro I use when I want to spot heal a player that isn't covered with my two tank macros above:

/macroicon Embrace pet Eos
/pac Embrace <mo>
/pac Obey

And of course as the other posters have mentioned, understanding the limitations of your fairy healing and your tank / parties capabilities will help you evaluate the best course of action - which in turn will come with just more practice.

Keep at it :)

Hello everyone

I pretty much use the standard settings except for the layouts.
For those I use 3 vertically hotbars and 1 horizontally hotbar (for LB, etc.).
I play on the PC and use the keyboard to cast the skills.
Recently I just played Haukke Manor until 32 (current level). After that I got tired and went offline.

@Ghishlain:
Could you explain what a mouse-over macro is please?
And why do you wait 1 second in the first macro when the cooldown of "Embrace" are 3 seconds?
Isn't it better to wait 3 seconds then recast "Embrace"?

I don't quite understand what the 2nd macro does. I would be thankful if you could explain that to me too.


Thank you for your replies

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@Ghishlain:
Could you explain what a mouse-over macro is please?
And why do you wait 1 second in the first macro when the cooldown of "Embrace" are 3 seconds?
Isn't it better to wait 3 seconds then recast "Embrace"?


I don't quite understand what the 2nd macro does. I would be thankful if you could explain that to me too.

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The second macro I listed is actually an example of a moues over macro. The syntax for it is <mo> and in the case of the macro I provided automatically casts Embrace on the target my mouse is on (not necessarily targeting). The mouse-over macro works by just hovering the mouse either over the player or their name on the party list and it'll cast on that person.

I use a wait.1 because I find that if the Fairy is in the middle of something (say casting another Embrace) and it's 2 seconds before it's off GCD, then you're effectively waiting 5 seconds until the next Embrace cast if you use a wait.3. I know some players prefer wait.3 and some prefer wait.2 - I'm just of preference to prefer wait.1. The higher waits means you can fit more Embraces before the next time you need to enable the macro but I'm okay with what I have right now.

Pick what's suitable for you~

Good evening

Meanwhile I'm lvl 34, and I practiced only in dungeons.
Recently I did Brayflox, and some run was very good but a few weren't.
It was that one run, that was a bit critical at the fight with the end boss.
The Tank rarely pull the dragon out of the poisonous AoE and we had 2 melee dps class.
Since I'm still lvl 34 I only have the AoE regen buff of Eos. At the beginning I could still dps carefree, since Eos spammed "Embrace" on the Tank (Macros).
But somewhere around 50% the dragon keeps shooting AoE and hits everyone (me and Eos included).
Everyone had a hard time there. We had low HP and I could only heal one party member at a time.
I tried to reduce the incoming dmg via "Virus" and gave the Tank a mitigation buff.
Even with Eos, the Tank took too much dmg.
In the end, we made it without a member dying. But still... what should I have done?
Should I've used "Adloqium" on every party member then using "Physick"?


Thank you in advance

Team comp: DRK, SCH, MNK, NIN

Scholar changes at 50 when you get lustrate and again when you get indom.

Specifically, you could use Selene to cleanse people with fey caress once a minute with its aoe cleanse since you don't have access to leeches yet (esuna.) I feel that your issue was probably poor placement of the boss, in combination with party members standing in puddles. This is exacerbated by having 3 members in melee range. :[ If there are 2 Melee dps, they should try to stand to the same flank and move once the dragon has aoed onto The other flank. Eye for an Eye has a chance to place a debuff on attacking enemies to reduce damage by 10%, this might help keep your tank healthier. Just keep leveling, everything changes in one way or another. :]

The final boss of Brayflox can be problematic on SCH since you don't have a lot of the same tools that WHM / AST would have at the same levels - the big tool being Esuna for this particular boss since the poison stacks up higher and higer. What Rawr said above regarding Selene is a good work around in these kinds of scenarios though keep in mind that Fey Carress is on a one minute cooldown so you have to manage it appropriately. If you feel comfortable with fairy management you can also split healing duties with your Fairy and yourself so you're healing one target while the fairy is healing another, allowing for more even distribution of cures among your party members. This is useful to learn overall since this won't be the only time you'll most likely need to split your healing up.

If you feel a little daring it is possible to negate the application of Poison if you keep Adlo up on players but this is also quite MP intensive. Getting to 35 will also be useful since you get Succor which is you only AoE heal as a SCH until Indomitability at 52 and allow you to handle more people at once.

Adlo will always be stronger than Stoneskin if the SCH is at an equivalent level and gear as the target. There are also very very few tankbusters that will give you enough time to adlo and stoneskin. I agree that Blizzard 2 is a better choice as it is a DPS increase on 2+ mobs over Ruin/Ruin2, and an increase in 4+ mobs over Broil. In cases of trials: HM trials are super easy and even Succor pre pull is enough for that initial mitigation, and EX trials you can do Adlo + Emergency Tactics if party wide damage is going out near the beginning of the fight. Or have the AST do Noct Sect initially and Asp Helios the party then switch back before drawing enmity.