Stats & Bonus Points

[Sneakaboo]

I can't create my own thread yet so tossing here some stat thoughts about the scholar
First a few things to take into account.

Mind (MND) - Healing Magic Potency.
Piety (PIE) – MP Pool

Aetherflow: Restores 20% of maximum MP and on a 1 minute cooldown (it also gives you an awesome 90% damage reduction barrier for 15 seconds)


When ever mind>piety in any situation is going to depend on three things:


1: Succor: Restores target's HP. Cure Potency: 300
Additional Effect: Erects a magicked barrier which nullifies damage equalling the amount of HP restored. When critical HP is restored, damage nullification is doubled for 30s.

Succor2: Restores own HP and the HP of all nearby party members. Cure Potency: 150
Additional Effect: Erects a magicked barrier which nullifies damage equalling the amount of HP restored for 30s.


2: How does the fairy scale with mind/crit and haste?
In fact does it scale at all?


3: How will your mana hold out with a full focus on mind and is it worth putting points in piety at all or is the piety gained from gear good enough.



Will over healing leave shields?

If succor2 will apply the barrier when you overheal you can pre shield people by moving around, this will be very good in 24 man raids.
How ever this will also drain your mana.
In this scenario having a large mana pool will net you more mana back from aetherflow and eventually will net your more healing.


Fairy scaling

Whispering Dawn: Will this scale with haste/crit and will it scale with your mind if so how much (will it get another hot tick?)

Embrace: Same thing.

The reason why this is interesting is because in terms of hps and safety in general having spell speed>crit.
Which means both you and your fairy will have a cast speed of 1.5 in the end instead of 2.0.

Basically if the fairy scales you might not want to use to many points in piety even though you could use the mana to pre shield.
The pets healing might overshadow a bit of your extra mana since I doubt it can use piety (but I'm not sure)



The barrier


Simply put if the barrier won't apply when you over heal there is no point of picking up crit.
In fact in that case you might as well avoid it like the plague.
Even when it applies on crit from succor 1 it's still very questionable when ever you could use it the reason why is this:

Mind: Raw through put
Spell speed: Faster cast/gbc
Piety: In case you go oom and being able to spam more succor 2 pre damage for shields
Crit: Like in any MMORPG unreliable for healers, but if your mana is fine it will net you more healing than piety does.

So what stats does a scholar need?
Until we know how the pet scales it is very hard to say.


Though my main thought would be: MDN>spell haste>piety>crit

[Xilrasis]

Edited for length ... stuff about stat priority

I highly doubt they would exclude overhealing from the shield value of the spells, seeing as pretty much every other mechanic factors overhealing (enmity, for example).

This being said, I believe that it will end up being MND > CRIT > PIE > HASTE

All haste does is (very slightly) speed up your delivery and INCREASE your mana consumption for zero gain in efficiency. Additionally, it has zero effect on regen time/hots, to the best of my knowledge. This isn't a twitch game like WoW where you will be spam bombing huge heals as fast as you can into people, and long encounters will mean that mana efficiency will most likely be king for a long time to come. MND for effectiveness, CRIT for the large succor shields (and more effectiveness), PIE for manapool + regen rate, and then haste last as being only a throughput stat.

Just my 2c.