Scholar So Far

[Quasihemdem]

Ok I got a noob question. I know different roles use different armor. Like melee dps use one set and ranged dps use a different one. I also know that healers use the same sets as ranged dps ( could be wrong ). But what I would like to know is that do smn and sch use that same set of armor. If not can you please tell me why so that I may better understand it.

[Kupo_Nut]

I stopped caring about timing the pet AoE heal honestly because of the mode switching, and I find it's better to spam Embrace on the tank to conserve as much MP as possible, Embrace activates exactly at <70% HP, lowest HP get's higher priority as far as I can tell (unless enmity plays part in priority), the % is very low imo if I could I would have set it at <100% meaning any hit will make the pet start healing immediately since the heal is low (not much over-healing) and the most important..it cost no MP whatsoever!, which is what I'm doing right now, spamming Embrace until the tank get's low enough for me to waste my MP, and it's been good so far.

I just got Succor, I've yet to try it but since I already given up on SCH AoE healing, we are more or less like paladins in WoW, we will rely on direct healing to heal the party, so spell speed and Crit hit for shield will probably be higher priority stats for us.

[Lany]

To FrionielHope


I think you are missing something, or most likly you had bad tank. While I did lvl as arcanist I felt overpowered with my own tank and heal but after I got my Scholar soul it got even more out of hand. Fairy have no mana so she pump those heals nonstop and with good tank she can keep up alone for the most part so I just spread my dots around. Only when there is a lot of aoe dmg or tank have 3+ mobs on him in dungeons I have to heal too. I think many people forget that even if scholar don't get aoe heal until later we get twice as many single target heals and that make up for lack of aoe heal plus where white mage have to think about mana we can just keep going, also all bosses do long animations before aoe hits so cast Alsoquiuim on somebody before aoe hit and you will have 1 less person to think about.

[Lany]

Don't give up, if you like healing scholars are fine and it is only 5 levels before you get aoe heal anyway. I did Titan without aoe heal and had no problem to keep party topped at all time with mix of level 24-28 gear. You also should learn how fairy heals so you know who she is going to heal next and when. Her ai is quite simple she will heal lowest %hp target in range first and she does not cast heal if it will bring target over 90% hp or so, so she never top off people.

P.S. Nerf limit on post length

[Waliel]

After playing for a few days, let's go over some points.

My feelings about the job:
Adloquium is pretty much useless in its current state. It's so ineffective. It costs so much mana for so little healing (even including the shield).

Adloquium has exactly same effective healing as Cure II and even more when you crit, as the shield potency doubles. You're supposed to use it when you need more healing than Physick can provide in a single GCD, not just randomly for the shield.

The fairy control is horrible. Why can't we control it while we cast spells? What is the point of having a pet if you can't control it and have to leave it on auto to not feel like you are wasting too much healing.

Embrace have a 3 second recast time. This is longer than most casts so if you are casting DoT's or Heals on every GCD you will lose out on so much healing from the pet if you have it on manual.

Leaving fairy on Steady and only giving it move commands seems to work pretty well. The pet starts to heal automagically around 75% HP, and you can manually cast the other skills when needed. You will never actually nede to manually tell the pet to heal someone. My only wish would be to be able to tell them to focus only on tank or something. And being able to issue pet commands while casting, of course.

Overall, I don't really have problems controlling the pet now that I'm used to it.

I don't know what the devs were thinking not giving us Leeches until lvl 40... Not being able to cleanse debuffs from atleast the tank can be quite devastating.

Would be nice to get it earlier, but I haven't encountered anything where I really needed it.

So Windquake, when you get the scholar soul you should get a huge boost to your mind. This will help with healing although lower level gear is associated with intelligence for Arcanists. Also I see a lot of people who try to use there spells and then wait to use the fairy heals. The best thing to do is have their heals on your bar (drag it from your actions tab under pets) and use their heal first and then yours. You can cast while they are casting, so just got to manage it that way for now. Did Haukke manor and everyone was surprised at how overpowered the healing was.

You pretty much never need to order your pet to heal a spesific target manually from what I've experienced.

im enjoying sch, i throw out heals when tank gets low otherwise i act like a dd and let my fairy do what it wants, sometimes i dont even pay attention to my teams hp... no one dies though, i almost feel like sch is a little overpowered but thats fine with me, im sure once the game has been out a while and some jobs get broken there will probably be a nerf

The fairy is a pretty awesome healer, yes; I healed Toto-rak with the fairy only, and casted only five Physicks that run. I think only one of them was at the last boss.

I also observe one issue with the fairy, and that is some recast times. The aoe regen and magic defense recast times should be a bit shorter imo. Scholar itself only has one AOE heal of 150 cure potency with the shield.

Not really. You can heal the group up very fast with single target heals with your fairy. Your raw healing output is surprisingly big. Sure, if you only need to cast AoE heals, WHM wins, but it hasn't been a problem for me so far.

from what I've seen for the first couple dungeons you can do after getting access to scholar it feels way overpowered because the damage isn't very intense and the fairy can almost do it by herself

but after that the fairies can get pretty unreliable
they just spot heal whoever is lowest, including pets, and go auto mode by themself after their first spell use
they seem to pretty often just derp out and do nothing even after giving them a command they'll fly over cast a heal then fly back to you and do nothing again
there is no way to make them focus like sic and obey just don't work for them

I've never seen my fairy heals pets. Never. Only herself when she gets low enough. Tell your pet to stay still, so she can focus on healing and not following you around.

The fairy definitely needs to not use skills automatically like they do. I don't like how the fairy will just throw out the AOE regen and magic damage reduction before anyone else even takes damage or any kind of magic damage. I don't mind them putting the Healing potency increase on me automatically tho... but I know that one can be easily macroed to be placed on yourself even if you are targeting someone else.

Put pet on Steady, will only use her heal.

About the randomness tho, I have noticed that the fairy will usually immediately heal a person that is not your target when they take damage, but it is always with the DPS of the party, and sometimes it doesn't get on the ball with the tank. You also have to be within a good range of that person, so I always try to stay closer to people so the fairy will do their thing. It does have randomness to it tho.

Micro your pet; move her to a good position, and don't just let her follow you. You're supposed to control your fairy and not just ignore her position.

The lvl45 skill also I agree is too weak. They make it sound strong, but it is really just a 10% damage reduction.

It's AoE, and the duration isn't too bad, so it's pretty decent. You can't really increase the damage reduction without decresing its duration or radius.

The Pet heals isn't really a big amount for the SCH anyway so u don't really need it. The pet however does other moves which increases ur spell rate etc.. So having it on auto is the best anyway. If u cant heal alone without the need for pet u proberally shoulnt be a healer. The pet as well Eos has a healing ability to be able to make your heals 20% more effective in later levels. So the pet is a great help also being on AUTO. Also when u take AoE damage which on a lot of boss fights everyone takes AoE cant be helped your healing pet will automatically start healing you so u can concentrate on the party. Also another AUTO ability. So why do u want it to heal single targets?

Wrong. A free 300 potency heal every 3 seconds is huge.

[Dantes]

I won't bother to repeat the merits of Scholar healing or how awesome Eos is as others have already explained these things in greater detail than I believe that I could. I will summarize, though, that the job is fantastic at healing. The most recent dungeon that I've run as a healer was The Sunken Temple of Qarn (which is a surprisingly difficult dungeon compared to its predecessors) and I have yet to have difficulty in keeping up on heals while also placing DoTs. Many of the issues addressed above can be resolved by careful pet management, which has also been covered above. What I will say is that I also ran The Sunken Temple as Summoner with a SCH healer...we died...a lot...so, I'm willing to concede that the job may require a lot of focus and micro-management. Or maybe that SCH needed more practice.
As a side note: The SCH quest line seems like it was just thrown together as an afterthought when compared to the SMN quest line. I won't say more as I don't want to spoil anything.

[Reika]

Tl;dr to aboves: "I'm ok with everything" /gotcha.

[Dantes]

Tl;dr to aboves: "I'm ok with everything" /gotcha.

Basically this but the questline has been disappointing. Also, the switch of emphasis to MND after 30 levels of placing attribute points into INT and in spite of us receiving Enhanced Intelligence traits seems odd. These are my only issues.

But generally "I'm ok with everything".

[Reika]

Well that wasn't really directed at you, but to those who it was, they know who I'm talking about. "I'm ok with everything" posts are easy to spot. Sometimes I feel like stopping my playtime to come into the forums to tell everyone I'm ok with everything too, but I dont, because i'm not. That also wouldn't make sense, because I would be loving everything so much I wouldn't bother with the forums

[Dantes]

I took no offense. Even though I was going for something else, I can see how my post could be summarized as "I'm ok with everything" so it wouldn't very reasonable to be offended.

On another note, I'm sitting at work and wondering about Cleric Stance from CNJ. Has anyone gotten any experience with placing their attribute points predominantly into MND and making use of this ability when placing DoTs? I originally wrote it off because of the -20% healing effectiveness as I was only looking at it for swapping out a high INT for low MND when healing. I haven't got much experience with it so I'm just curious about the potential.