I was a little confused by the SCH changes, aside from getting Energy Drain back (thank you). I wont complain about the Art of War and Succor buffs of course. I don't know anyone who was complaining that Scholars weren't strong enough though. The problem is SCH was the job for people who liked complexity, and in 5.0 they removed so much and made SCH dull to play, and very barren and weak below lv 50. SCH lv30-50 feels like Conjurer lv1-20. Here's my suggestions to finish up SCH.
- Remove "Only usable during combat" from Aetherflow.
It’s awkward, unnecessary and causes frustration.
- Add the ability to spread our DoT, with damage falloff (as Bane used to), to Deployment Tactics.
Slightly lower passive damage boosts to account for this extra dps.
- Increase range of Deployment Tactics from 10y to 15y
- Remove threat generation from Embrace.
Currently if the tank is damaged when entering a new battle, your fairy can auto heal them and generate threat before the Tank has a chance to, and fairy threat is now passed to the SCH. This feels very unintended.
- Re-balance progression to give more of SCH's kit earlier
- Fix tooltips of Whispering Dawn and Fey Illumination.
Currently they simply say "Orders faerie to execute ____" which is not useful while learning.
- Ideally, improve visuals of abilities to be more impressive and create a unifying visual theme for Scholars.
I see this requested frequently from others.
I wouldn't mind seeing something like setting up Selene to have some utility for solo play, instead of just lazily making her a copy of Eos, but I don’t have suggestions for that. I think the above changes would do the trick in general though. Thoughts?
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07-31-2019, 06:08 AMCheapshotPost 5.05 SCH suggestions
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07-31-2019, 08:24 AMWawachume
Well, you already mentioned the two main things I want now, out-of-combat aetherflow and bane.
I kind of suspect the change was made for raids without considering dungeons. :/ It only really serves a purpose in raids, because nobody waited for aetherflow cooldowns before pulling a dungeon boss. Conversely, its problems show up mainly in dungeons, since in-combat aetherflow is much more awkward on trash than boss fights.Quote:
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I never considered a dual use for deployment tactics like this. It's actually a really cool idea. Plus it fits with SE's desire for separate SMN/SCH spells.Quote:
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I think theme has become a more pressing issue in Shadowbringers, because the SMN/SCH split has kind of seen scholars moving away from the old biological/plague motif. All that's really left of it is the names "bio(lysis)" and "sacred soil".Quote:
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Personally, I don't really like the new animations (mostly Broil 3 and Biolysis). They look really "techy", more Allagan than Nymian. Maybe they should be machinist animations, but they don't seem quite right on a fairies-and-mortarboards class.
What I like is the red circle of text that appears around your hands when you cast succor or any of the broil spells. It's like a single sentence written in an ancient book you found, and when you speak it aloud it releases all this magical power. That's the kind of thing I want---less technological and more arcane.
(That being the case, I do like the symbols that appear on either side of you when casting Broil 3. They look like magical diagrams. Just not their particle effects.)
I also think some scholar character animations look a little aggressive compared to the other healers. For most of them, it's probably because they were originally made for arcanist as DPS animations, but Art of War is brand new and it's the worst offender by far.
And finally, it really bothers me that Eos is whitish and Selene is yellowish. That's totally backwards. -
07-31-2019, 01:59 PMGhostXO
I mained SCH in Stormblood and I decided to play WHM through the story because SCH just felt so bad without energy drain in my opinion. I'm glad it's back and I'm actually giving it a chance now that it is.
The main GLARING issue for me is not being able to use Aetherflow out of combat. If there are going to be changes made, I'd definitely want that to be the first next patch. I don't really raid or anything. I prefer doing dungeons most of the time and this issue has made itself a very apparent issue when I'm trying to catch up to sprinting tanks who expect a Excog right away and I have to use Aldo or Bio first. It's really clunky and I've killed a tank already because of it.
The other issue I find myself having so far while playing is using Fey Illumination. I've heard people complain that it is too weak, and it might be, but my main issue with it is that it isn't instant when I use it. I used to like using largesse + Indom for big aoe heals in dungeons and I thought a good replacement would be FeyIllum + Indom, but it takes too long for the dang fairy to shake around like a wet dog to get the skill off. I don't really know what would even be a good time to use it...I'd like to see the fairy skills going back to being instant. I'd like just something to make them feel better to use.
Also I never thought I would miss Selene but she was funner to use in the open world during Fates and through story content. Fey Wind was a nice way to toss in some extra damage and make solo content just a tiny tiny bit more fun. So, I'd like to see Selene come back, maybe with Fey Wind and an interrupt or something else completely. More utility and the ability to make decisions based on which fairy you have would be nice.
I'd like to be able to order Eos to use Embrace also, but I doubt that will be changing. Also I agree with you OP, I think Embrace shouldn't generate emnity on ME as a scholar. It's happened quite often in dungeons already and has nearly killed me since my tanks seem to have tunnel vision on other things.
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07-31-2019, 02:48 PMSloprano
Many good suggestions. Have several thoughts on the matter. Mainly it's about bringing back Lily in earlier state to handle more of the healing and either reinstating Arcanist abilities or come up with new wasy for damage, tools and fun
* Manual control, targetable and mortal fairies and their hotbars. The ability to use Lily's abilities and a strong Embrace while casting was a keystone to the job, having to stop whatever I'm doing to user Order abilities feels like it interrupts a lot of good flow the job had.
* Bring back Selene. Scholar used to have a feeling of a multi-purpose Job with many tools that might not fit every situation. That included Selene and her Fey abilities.
* Aetherflow unusable out of combat. Since they already can discern when we're in or out of combat, why not make it 5 second cooldown when out of combat. I would really like to see this returned, for everything like being more prepared at the start of a dungeon pull to be able to Lustrate strangers out in the world that are low on health.
* More dots and the ability to spread them. Miasma, Bio, Bio 2, Miasma 2(, aero) and Bane. Can call it something different if it would suite better and take away potencies on Broil III and Ruin II to compensate for it. It might not been intentional but Arcanist was a great Class base for Scholar that gave you a lot to do both while leveling, synced or even at max level. The wish is to embrace this idea instead of just cutting ties.
* Please keep the pose for casting Arcanist spells. It is the best and would very much like to see it stay on Scholar.
* Earlier cornerstones ability. At level 80 the job feels clunky to play, but functional. Below 80, as clunky with less to do. If the reason for cutting ties with Arcanist is some trouble with Classes, then I would like to see them re-label Arcanist Skills as eligble for "SCH". As they did with Energy Drain, this will hopefully make them rework it into being a level 6 Ability like it is on ACN and slowly trickle in skills earlier like Aetherdam.
* Dealing damage. As many others have made themselves clear on here: Spamming Broil/Ruin/Stone/Glare/Malefic is not fun for the amount of time we are expected or want to do some damage. For Scholar I would like to go back to the Dot management: Chain strat can be reworked and given much earlier. When put on an enemy it reveals weakness about the target: Giving you a random order to apply dots that if done in right order, gives a debuff on the target where either Broil/Ruin II or Energy Drain deals double damage.
* Tools, Mitigation and Nuance. E4E, Virus, Shadowflare, Blind on Ruin II, Heavy and Malady on Miasma. Lots of little things that made the job interesting and have something for everything. Seeing everything just read "deals unaspected damage" feels makes it uninteresting as a whole. If hotbar space is a problem, then we could have combos in the form of "amount of dots on target" and use Broil, Ruin II and Energy drain as different finishers. Say two dots + Energy Drain = Shadowflare under that mob. -
07-31-2019, 03:09 PMEaMett
Personally don't care much for quite a few of the elements here. The SCH skill levels do need reworking though. I'll give you that.
Beyond that I would like to see all the bugs with SCH sorted. Make Ruin II worth single weaving with. Fix our faerie, she's taking forever to cast stuff it's super annoying (even moreso from the fact they fixed this last expansion before breaking it again). Correct the bug where faerie skills go on cooldown but aren't applied to party members. Give us a manual embrace back, manually triggering veil and stuff i annoying for one and seraph solo shields really get wasted on random people during encounters.
Also FOR THE LOVE OF GOD fix catalyze/galvanize priority order so that catalyze gets used up first.
I'm also mildly annoyed at having ED back without quickened aetherflow. Not that it's particularly needed but my muscle memory is killing me right now :O *use stakcs then realize there's still 15s left on af*. I never even knew my brain had an automatic 45s AF timer built in until they did this. -
07-31-2019, 03:30 PMHysteriorSince it is aligned with the others 2 healers (AST cant get seals out of fights and WHM cant get Lilies), I dont think it will change the expansion for balancing reasons.Quote:
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Same as above. We actually have energy drain and ruin 2 for movement, which the other 2 healers have not. I dont think that will happen.Quote:
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I actually like that it is a small radius, it forces teams to pack.Quote:
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Did not notice it but if that is the case, yes.Quote:
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Also did not do much old, content so I did not notice any particular issue compared to the other 2 healers.Quote:
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Yes. I also hate the Seraph skill tooltips.Quote:
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I dont expect such rework either but we will see. AoW is indeed not very impressive.Quote:
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Dont see that one happening either.Quote:
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08-01-2019, 06:01 AMgalbsadiSlight caveat here...this is less like 'not getting seals' and more like if they took away the ability for you to use 'Draw' outside of combat. Not getting seals is more akin to not getting fairy gauge outside of combat (which is also true to SCH, but that I don't see people really complaining about).Quote:
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08-01-2019, 06:58 AMjmocubes
I love the idea of deployment tactics spreading biolysis ❤️
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08-01-2019, 08:52 AMImpurrrsive
The others may not like this thread my comrade, but I'm completely up for the out of combat aetherflow.
If u want to suggest changes, if can't elusively do it one at a time and assertively
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08-01-2019, 08:58 AMHawklaser
Something I have been thinking about, as it seems Sch is slowly drifting away from being the shield healer, or they are being de-emphasized more as we get more emphasis on direct oGCD heals. It might be worth bringing back Stoneskin or something similar to it. Currently there is still some of the shields in place, but I am starting to wonder about how much longer that might last.
As much as I hate to steal Phalanx from FFXI's RDM's, it might be a good one to repurpose for a fairy gauge skill instead of fey pact. Maybe builds a shield overtime or grants a %dmg resist per tic while its up or something like that, but it does fit with the Sch's Military Tactician thematic.
I'd really like to see them go back to more of the preemptive mitigation via shields for Sch than even more raw heals like we seem to be getting. -
08-01-2019, 02:19 PMSloprano
Something that I saw SE refer to is how Scholar is the "shield-healer" which I think is erroneous. It's true I put up shields when I'm expecting unavoidable or even avoidable damage, but there is and was so much more. The fairy skills to multimanage for healing/HoT/Magic damage res/Healing up/AoE Esuna/Haste, there were dots with debuffs on them, Ruin II with Blind, Virus to reduce STR/DEX/INT/MND, Shadowflare with slow, E4E to reduce damage, Sacred Soil for less damage taken, a 3-a-minute resource for either strong healing, Sacred Soil or trade for damage/mp/hp and the Fey Gauge the job could utilize in so many other ways.
I think it would be a start if Scholar would be recognized as the mitigating healer, reducing damage before it happens and exploiting the mobs to do less damage to the party. Also to nail the feeling of a battlefield tactician and medic they reflect on in the job description and quests. The job had inconveniences, the fun was to learn to work around them. A unique playstyle that I believe they should go all out for to make Scholar, but also rest of the healing jobs look and feel unique in what they do best at. -
08-01-2019, 02:56 PMksuyen
Since 75% of my heals depends on shield (even Excog is a type of shield), I am pretty confident to still call it a shield healer. However, I wouldn't argue that in order to bring all healers equal (balance) in terms of their skill sets in this expansion the dev had removed and changed a few things that most healers (including scholar) wouldn't be happy with. As a result of streamlining, each healer lost a bit of its unique identity. Perhaps it is time for dev to give each healers back its uniqueness without being too OP. Yes, the risk of being different is that one could be seen to be more powerful than the others (and the opposite reactions would happen): people start complaining why WHM doesn't have this, why AST have that, why SCH can't have what WHM have, etc. The cycles never end.
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08-01-2019, 03:35 PMSlopranoGood thinking. Could definitley see Excog reworked as a shield instead of heal, needing a second trigger like Divine Veil.Quote:
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The protesting will continue, that I am sure of. If nobody complained it would mean there were perfect and perfect is boring. I am to admit I have no idea how much discussion there was here before 5.0, I just got here after the changes to Scholar. If others are to believe, this is the most active this subforum have been in a while. I might be completely wrong on that.
Since I never got here before it was because the job I liked fit me like a glove and it seems to have been the healer that was unique in that it inherited dps skills and tools, might've made it overpowered even. Then the solution, I believe, is evident, bump up and make all the healers overpowered. Make them ridiculous and fun to play. DPS jobs have had no trouble waltzing over solo and party content, enjoying a large suite of skills to remove healthbars quickly as possible. Looking at how Paladin went from the rock in 2.0 to in 5.0 constantly barraging mobs with combos and spells with a side dish of cooldowns I like to think the solution is clear: Make sure all the Healer jobs feels good to play in unique ways of doing damage and healing FIRST, then worry about potencies.
We got this threads for ideas so let's fill it up and see if SE takes notice.
Along with Eos and Selene restored to former glory, would like to see Seraph be a full summon aswell. What with Eos healing and buffing and Selene supporting, Seraph could be the full-time shielding fairy with her skills costing Gauge and not sharing cooldown with the other faerie's skills, but is put on a 2min cooldown if sent away. -
08-01-2019, 04:36 PMHatstandI doubt they’d put Selene back exactly as she was, and I kind of don’t want them to, since she never saw much use since she got nerfed anyway. (Although I’d rather have her back as she was than not at all). But... if Eos was going to be the healing fairy, and Seraph was going to be the shielding fairy, I’d like Selene to be the buffing fairy again. Maybe make her into kind of what cleric stance used to be: turn off her embrace and instead give a passive damage buff to the healer (nerf current potencies so that she’d bring the SCH back up to where they are now if the extra damage is a problem). Combine that with the instant summon that summoners already have and swapping between fairies could become a dynamic thing (but still one you’d have to be careful of since you’d lose an embrace when the summoned fairy was changing due to animations).Quote:
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Leave the aoe cleanse. That’s a great ability (although I agree it would be better suited to WHM, but in the meantime, why not?) and make her buff single target, but a little bit stronger. If they’re worried about buffing making certain combinations meta, a single target buff would be much easier to balance.
Also, this would make Selene the perfect fairy for solo. Buff your own damage, while also removing your auto-heal, forcing you to actually use your healing kit (which is currently pretty much useless in solo content). Plus, choices are wonderful, and being able to choose between better healing and better damage is something I always love in a healer (Presence of Mind is one of my favourite abilities in the game, because it can be used both offensively and defensively).
Ofc, they’d need to either nerf SCH’s base damage potencies to make up for the gain of both the passive and the acfive buff, or buff the other healers a bit, but like you I’m more worried about playstyle than potency, so I’ll leave the balancing to the devs. I’d rather they overnerf SCH potencies and make SCH fun again than leave it as is.
Also, I don’t mind Seraph sharing cooldowns with the other fairies, so long as she has unique abilities for those shared cooldowns, like the fairies used to. -
08-01-2019, 06:42 PMSlopranoThe idea that fairies affect the scholar in more ways than just what's on the pet hotbar, and very much more than just being color swaps, is very interesting. We already got Eos from the moment we aquire the Scholar crystal so she could give a passive to healing, and Selene a passive buff to flat damage (or just dots). Instead of cutting of Embrace I'd rather see the Cleric stance downside: reduced healing on the scholar whenever Selene is out and have a 5 second grace period where she can't be sent away. LastelyQuote:
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Something more impactful than Fey Wind would be welcome, and would like to see Fey Caress stay if only for Deep Dungeons.
Hang on, what if Eos gets Embrace (heal), Seraph gets Veil (shield) and Selene could get Encouragement. Looking how all of Ast's cards got turned into Balance, I'm reluctant to say "increase damage for a % for x seconds." There must be something more interesting to increase.
Being fan of stances that gives as much downsides as upsides, forcing you to swap between, need to think of something more they could do. -
08-01-2019, 07:32 PMEpicOverlord85
Bane, Aether flow out of combat, and the quickened Aether flow trait are all things we need back still. That and Selene :(
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08-01-2019, 09:07 PMnalolwith giing us ED back .. idt they would change that .. because it would mean again we could use ED 3 times at start of dongeon and recast AF quickly after without any downsidesQuote:
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08-01-2019, 09:19 PMConnor
I think most of these are good ideas for Scholar. The only thing I’m unsure about would be consolidating Deployment and Bane. It’s a cool idea, but with the cooldown on Deployment it’d be much less readily available than Bane was. And if they made it use Aetherflow with a shorter cooldown, the shield spreading aspect may be a bit overpowered. Still though, it does sound like it would make Deployment even more interesting to use. An alternative but similar idea I can think of could be to have Deployment Tactics convert shields into direct damage to nearby enemies, though it would need a static potency rather than scaling just off the shield to avoid being too powerful.
In terms of Selene, I feel like this is the exact same situation as with Bard and Dancer. The devs saw that two jobs within the same role both offered utility, and instead of reworking Selene’s abilities to create a utility fairy that won’t step in Astrologian’s toes, they just removed the support spells from whichever of the two is the ‘less supportive’ -
08-01-2019, 09:58 PMHatstandI thought about this, but I don’t like the idea of Selene just randomly buffing whoever. And if she’s designed to do it to everyone in turn you may as well just make it an aoe aura. Maybe if they let us manually control embrace again, it could work. Maybe, rather than x seconds, it could be just for the next action, and that way we wouldn’t lose anything by the AI automatically overriding its own buff. Again, this would be better if we could manually target it.Quote:
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When it comes down to it, I don’t really mind the fairy cooldowns being abilities (although I wish they’d respond like abilities and go off right away) since it gives opportunities for weaving (although I also wish they’d make ruin 2 into a more worthwhile weaving tool). I really would like to be able to control just embrace separately from our own gcd, though. I really liked being able to control it directly, and if it was an ability then it just wouldn’t be worth weaving most of the time when she’s going to heal someone automatically anyway.
I do like the idea of each fairy positively (and by proxy negatively) affecting each of your capabilities. Perhaps Seraph could raise the potency if your shields a little while she was out. (So Eos was more pure-heal-y and HoT-y mode and Seraph was shieldy mode). You’d probably have to lower their base potencies for both heals and shields (before pulling out a fairy pulled you just a little ahead in one or the other), but I think it could be quite fun having to decide that now was the time for burst shielding, and then switching back to heal mode to fill people up behind the barriers.
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08-02-2019, 01:43 AMPatt
As others have mentioned there are a lot of really great ideas in this thread, some of them that I'd really like to see are:
Pet actions back on the pet GCD: They finally had this working in a really great way during the tailend of SB. Having to weave using the SCH GCD causes a lot of really weird bugs to appear, especially when transitioning to and from seraph (skills going on cooldown but not getting activated).
Manual targeting of embrace, or better priority: This is really nice to have for popping veil as well as now for forcing shields on the appropriate party members. SCH has the potential of having a really high skill cap and benefit with Seraph's shield now, but as it stands at the moment her single target shielding capabilities get largely wasted.
Aetherflow out of combat: As everyone and their mother has already suggested, please SE, not having AF useable outside of combat feels so bad! -
08-02-2019, 02:18 AMNathanial
A glaring issue with scholar in storms blood was the fact fey illumination did not increase ability heals. Idk if that is still a thing. Also, I would suggest making indom a 3 second cast and lowering its area of effect or something in return. Scholars just dont have the same utility in ape healing as the other two classes. Their shields are also initially lower than astro so anything to bring them closer would be great. Maybe making galvanize a stronger % while crit carterize has a lower % to compliment but still give you the extra shield satisfaction. Just doesn't make sence to me that crits are they only time your shields are better than astro when. Its like they got the crit bonus effect 100% of the time while sch gets half that exsept the maybe 5 to 10% of the time they might crit.
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08-02-2019, 02:41 AMConnorAs far as I’m aware Fey Illumination is still spell-based healing only. To be fair though, most healing boosts with the exception of Bard’s ‘Nature’s Minne’, which had its cooldown doubled to compensate (45s to 90s).Quote:
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For the second issue, doesn’t Recitation make up for the lower initial potency on Scholar’s shields? It also has much better MP economy due to being so heavily oGCD based and Aetherflow / Energy Drain.
I can understand looking at the potencies of Nocturnal Sect and thinking ‘wait so which one is the shield healer?’. But I think the core of Scholar’s identity is that it has abilities that seem weak when looking in a ‘vaccum’, but when used tactically can become very powerful.
Indomitability is a good example of this. It’s very versatile in that you can fit it in wherever is tactically necessary; whether using it to supplement the healing from a normal Succor to top the party off before the next big attack, or combined with Emergency Tactics / Succor for a really big reactive heal. You can use it with Consolation to top the party off while shielding then without having to interrupt your DPS rotation (too much), or even just use it alone if there isn’t any further aoe damage incoming. While adding a cast time and putting it on the GCD would make it more readily available, it would come at the cost of this versatility.
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08-02-2019, 02:57 AMSlopranoOh yeah, if this comes to pass I would very much prefer the old system of the seperate pet hotbar with full manual control over the skills like we had to get the most out of Embrace. Would that be the pGCDs? Pet-global cooldowns? Either way, the way to choose if Lily healed on a strict : Scholar hp <80% and then everyone else or we could override it any time. Preferably with a stronger Embrace so it can reliably pull someone out of danger.Quote:
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Had idea for something like:
Summon Eos to call forth a healer-aspected Lily and grants the Scholar "Nymian field healing." Increasing healing of spells and abilities by 10%.
Summnon Selene to call forth a support-aspected Lily and grants the Scholar "Nymian offensive maneuver." Increasing damage dealt by the scholar by 20% while reducing all healing by 50%.
With all offensive spells reduced and by having Selene out we are effectivelly on the same level as before.Trick to make something unique for Seraph and boost shield is that our shields already boosted by how much healing done. So either make Eos only affect healing, like 10% of healing done to a target is applied as a seperate spell.
If fairies should play a such huge role I agree, instant summon in battle with cooldown would probably be necessary to quickly swap to the one you need. Preferably keep the cast time when out of combat, I do like the summoning animation. -
08-02-2019, 04:18 AMWawachumeNocturnal astrologian may have better shields. But every time I play scholar, I think, "I'm so glad I have these shields," and every time I play nocturnal I think, "this is pointless and I should go back to diurnal". The high potencies of nocturnal shields are basically a bandaid that tries, not very successfully, to cover up the fact that nocturnal isn't much of a shield healer because it lacks both the toolkit to complement the shields and the mana to sustain them.Quote:
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The thing with a shield healer is that you can't have just preventive heals, because then the class is only useful in a meticulously-planned and -executed setting like a static raid group, and becomes pointless in something like a pug dungeon run. So scholar has some throughput heals to make up for this weakness, but for balancing reasons they're not spammable like the other healers'. Scholar very deliberately doesn't have medica. But it does have indomitability, whispering dawn, emergency tactics, fey blessing, and consolation, which I think is more than enough.
And indomitability is one of my favorite spells---mostly for the dramatic effect, which depends on it being high-potency, off-GCD, and on a longish cooldown. -
08-02-2019, 05:28 AMHanayumi
1) Remove "in combat" for aetherflow and aetherpact
2) Add old eye for eye effect to deployment or something, deployment alone is kinda meh
3) Extend seraph to 30secs, 20 feels too short
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08-02-2019, 06:31 AMCheapshot
Happy to see lots of discussion. I just want to throw down the reminder to those who say stuff like "the other healers cant do X so they wont let us do X". Yes, you're probably right that they won't want to, but not all the healers have to work exactly the same, jobs can and should differ from each other significantly, and homogenizing them all to be more similar is why we're all so dissatisfied. It's an extremely extremely lazy form of balancing, and results in "healer in need".
I also want to say how important I think it is that they re-look at SCH leveling progression. Having done 1-60 very recently, I can say that it was a lot of fun before 5.0, and then after 5.0 it was no longer fun in the least bit. We need more kit and utility earlier, or no one is going to want to put up with leveling SCH. If you want a taste of how it is, go do lower level fates or pre-50 dungeons. Holy cow it's become weak and stale. It seems like they only worked on SCH with lv80 in mind. -
08-02-2019, 02:52 PMSlopranoThis has been on my mind aswell for some time. Wether it was time constraint or disregarding during Q&A that healers were only playtested in the new dungeons, trials and raids. With no-one around to ask: "Is this fun in the rest of the expansion or rest of the game?" A joking suggestion is that noone on the development team played a healer before so they had to pick a volunteer who usually played another role, saw he could heal the Duty and check off the healers as ready for prod. I really hope we hear from the developers themselves soon as I don't want to believe this scenario came to pass, yet with what we go it seems all the more possible.Quote:
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Just seeing how much difference loosing 4 dots and tools did for Scholar, I hope the relinking or reassinging of ACN skills and manual pet hotbar dosen't stop with Energy Drain. Something new and just as, if not even more interesting would be the best going into a new expansion, if they are pressed for time I know it would be the fastest solution to solve both uninteresting leveling/synced content and deal with dull non-healing gameplay.