Wow! I've Been Healing All Wrong As Scholar.

After reading some remarks on this forum, I decided to do some research and found this guide, Indomitable: A Thorough Guide To Scholar.

It's very helpful and I thought I'd share it to other healers to help them be better scholars.

I learned just recently that Fey Blessing healing buff doesn't work for Aetherflow abilities.

I believe in that, however, I'm still looking through the tooltips where this is explained. :(

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Originally Posted by Raikai

I learned just recently that Fey Blessing healing buff doesn't work for Aetherflow abilities.

I believe in that, however, I'm still looking through the tooltips where this is explained. :(

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It's right there in the description, unfortunately the game is just incredibly cryptic.
"Increases healing magic potency of all nearby party members by 10%"
Only GCD healing is considered healing magic, warrior's Thrill of Battle for example has the effect: "Increases HP recovery via healing actions on self by 20%" which includes oGCDs.

as cited in that link and for questions for current SCH and certainly in future The Balance discord is a great resource

For me, the biggest revelation was I was using Adloquium way too much and Energy Drain way too little.

It seemed self evident the shield healer should, you know, keep up shields on the party proactively as much as possible. And why would I use my precious aetherflow stacks on a 100 potency Energy Drain when I needed those stacks for Sacred Soil and my "Oh Shite!" buttons?

Boy, was I wrong. ((At least, that what more experienced scholars say)).

The truth was I was burning thru my MP for a mediocre heal most of the time and ignoring a damage spell which could be weaved in my damage rotation while giving me back health and MP.

Currently, I'm slowly unlearning my bad habits. :D

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Originally Posted by Absurdity

It's right there in the description, unfortunately the game is just incredibly cryptic.
"Increases healing magic potency of all nearby party members by 10%"
Only GCD healing is considered healing magic, warrior's Thrill of Battle for example has the effect: "Increases HP recovery via healing actions on self by 20%" which includes oGCDs.

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Ugh... that's terrible. The job is a healer, one assumes that everything in the kit is "magic". If they reworded it like "increase healing of spells for all nearby..." it would be more intuitive, because the job actions are either "spells" or "abilities" - I would have a better reference to assume the information. Or they could simply add a * in the end of the tooltip making clear that it doesn't work for abilities.

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Originally Posted by Raikai

Ugh... that's terrible. The job is a healer, one assumes that everything in the kit is "magic". If they reworded it like "increase healing of spells for all nearby..." it would be more intuitive, because the job actions are either "spells" or "abilities" - I would have a better reference to assume the information. Or they could simply add a * in the end of the tooltip making clear that it doesn't work for abilities.

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Don't worry, Raikai. Most beginning players make the same mistake, much to the annoyance of our more vocal forum posters.:p

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Originally Posted by Kacho_Nacho

Currently, I'm slowly unlearning my bad habits. :D

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Being willing to learn is always a sign of good potential. I'm sure you'll do great with SCH, good luck :)

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Originally Posted by Kacho_Nacho

After reading some remarks on this forum, I decided to do some research and found this guide, Indomitable: A Thorough Guide To Scholar.

It's very helpful and I thought I'd share it to other healers to help them be better scholars.

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Thank you for making this thread and sharing that info, Kacho! "Indomitable: A Thorough Guide To Scholar" looks excellent and I have already printed it out.

This explains why I was using Adlo as my primary heal and wondered why I was running out of mana! Of course, I was only Level 30 in the instance but still... I had seen so much trashing of Physick on the message boards that I assumed that I shouldn't use that skill in any situation.

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Originally Posted by Liam_Harper

Being willing to learn is always a sign of good potential. I'm sure you'll do great with SCH, good luck :)

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Thank you! For all of its issues, I find Scholar to be the most engaging and satisfying job to play. I'm kind of dreading what changes Edgewalker will bring to Scholar. I don't want to fall out of love with my newest class!

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Originally Posted by NYCLouisGamer

Thank you for making this thread and sharing that info, Kacho! "Indomitable: A Thorough Guide To Scholar" looks excellent and I have already printed it out.

This explains why I was using Adlo as my primary heal and wondered why I was running out of mana! Of course, I was only Level 30 in the instance but still... I had seen so much trashing of Physick on the message boards that I assumed that I shouldn't use that skill in any situation.

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You are welcome! I figured I couldn't be the only beginning Scholar in the game. :)

Yeah, I know what you mean. Healing synched content and level 70 stuff is totally different but it is good to be mindful and how you will be healing in current content. When I'm low level, I still rely on Adlo more than Physick and cast less damage spells.

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Originally Posted by Kacho_Nacho

For me, the biggest revelation was I was using Adloquium way too much and Energy Drain way too little.

It seemed self evident the shield healer should, you know, keep up shields on the party proactively as much as possible. And why would I use my precious aetherflow stacks on a 100 potency Energy Drain when I needed those stacks for Sacred Soil and my "Oh Shite!" buttons?

Boy, was I wrong. ((At least, that what more experienced scholars say)).

The truth was I was burning thru my MP for a mediocre heal most of the time and ignoring a damage spell which could be weaved in my damage rotation while giving me back health and MP.

Currently, I'm slowly unlearning my bad habits. :D

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To be entirely fair, it is quite misleading that what everyone calls the shield healer doesn't actually use shields as its bread and butter heals. I was totally expecting something like Disc priest from WoW (I know, I know, different games) when I first started playing the job, and at least during ARR and mid HW levels that's sort of true, but then it just almost entirely shifts its focus on fairy abilities and damage prevention/mitigation instead.

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Originally Posted by Allegor

To be entirely fair, it is quite misleading that what everyone calls the shield healer doesn't actually use shields as its bread and butter heals. I was totally expecting something like Disc priest from WoW (I know, I know, different games) when I first started playing the job, and at least during ARR and mid HW levels that's sort of true, but then it just almost entirely shifts its focus on fairy abilities and damage prevention/mitigation instead.

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Exactly! I totally thought that scholar would play like a disc priest. Because, you know, shield healer. It's my hope that 6.0 moves scholars more in that direction because the current iteration doesn't fit the class fantasy of a Nymian Marine.

We need more emphasis of damage mitigation, support buffs, and debuffs. In addition, scholars should have the option to hit hard at the expense of their healing, so a strong Energy Drain is a must.

But, until then, I hope other players find the link helpful.

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Originally Posted by Allegor

To be entirely fair, it is quite misleading that what everyone calls the shield healer doesn't actually use shields as its bread and butter heals. I was totally expecting something like Disc priest from WoW (I know, I know, different games) when I first started playing the job, and at least during ARR and mid HW levels that's sort of true, but then it just almost entirely shifts its focus on fairy abilities and damage prevention/mitigation instead.

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Given the fact that they're moving to a more distinct Shield/Pure healer setup in the next expansion, they really need to fix that. They should either:

1) Make the vast majority of SCH heals be shields
2) Rename the types to Shield/Regen healer (which would, sort of, match what it actually is)

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Originally Posted by Kacho_Nacho

the current iteration doesn't fit the class fantasy of a Nymian Marine.

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Yeah, I don't know how to explain it but even when SCH has tons of abilities and fairy stuff for every occasion it feels so.....disjointed? like sure, the abilities are all there but it just doesn't feel they all fit together into an overall theme in the same way WHM is all about light and nature and AST is all about stars and the cosmos

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Originally Posted by Allegor

Yeah, I don't know how to explain it but even when SCH has tons of abilities and fairy stuff for every occasion it feels so.....disjointed? like sure, the abilities are all there but it just doesn't feel they all fit together into an overall theme in the same way WHM is all about light and nature and AST is all about stars and the cosmos

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Definitely. S.E. needs to go back and determine what a Scholar is supposed to be at its core. What is its theme? Once S.E. can answer those two questions, I feel they can come up with a Scholar which flows better.

im pretty sure scholar is supposed to be about analyzing and exposing enemy weaknesses and providing tactical solutions with spells such as Libra -- with a bit of black and white magic tossed in there

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Originally Posted by LeonKeyh

Rename the types to Shield/Regen healer (which would, sort of, match what it actually is)

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They should rename them to "Pure"/"Impure" healer, depending on if you prefer doing an oGCD DoT followed by GCD friendly sparkle spam until it falls off or if you prefer doing an oGCD shield followed by GCD angry sparkle spam until it breaks. Please look forward to it.

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Originally Posted by P0W3RK1D

im pretty sure scholar is supposed to be about analyzing and exposing enemy weaknesses and providing tactical solutions with spells such as Libra -- with a bit of black and white magic tossed in there

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This isn't FFXI so FFXI standards shouldn't be applied. DRKs were DPS in that game. They're not here.

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Originally Posted by Deceptus

This isn't FFXI so FFXI standards shouldn't be applied. DRKs were DPS in that game. They're not here.

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I mean, the job quests constantly mention that is literally what they're supposed to be [sans the white and black magic part], there's just a disconnect between their theme(s) and gameplay, much like how WHM is essentially a druid yet almost all of their spells and abilities are closer to an ecclesiastic priest theme

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Originally Posted by P0W3RK1D

i'm pretty sure scholar is supposed to be about analyzing and exposing enemy weaknesses and providing tactical solutions with spells such as Libra -- with a bit of black and white magic tossed in there

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You forgot about Nym's partnership with the fairies.