Scholars - missing the point

[Dragin]

I play a scholar I've beat titan with a Whitemage in my group we worked together and kept our group alive. Now i know all the tricks for a scholar its not that hard to keep a tank up or mitigate damage you just have to micro manage more then a whitemage. Now For everyone crying is not fair SHUT UP. Stop being bad at healing or give up and play a whitemage.

Only thing I want is to be able to manage eos and selene's abilites a little bit more but other then having it auto cast and lower cool-down's on eos would be nice too. But other then that Our class is fine.

If you know the tricks like placing your pet near the melee to heal them on auto shield the tank to mitigate damage and such. Stop whining And start acting like a healer. Learn the fights, not through a damn video and think oh i can do that to and fail. Do it yourself learn what makes a scholar a great healer.

[Asdamine]

It's a fun and amazing class and if you guys want to be a traditional reactionary based healer then I question your class choice not your class.

You make me want to try out Scholar lol.

[Victoria_Silverdawn]

LOL I agree. people watch those videos and think they know the fights. people need to experience these fights and learn to use these roles. I know my role. I leveled up my WHM to 50, and then moved to SCH. It was a bit of a shift. But since I had a lot of my WHM skills it made it a bit easier. I like WHM because it has a larger variety, and its heals are stronger. but it isn't that good in damage, which isn't a problem in dungeons. WHM aren't suppose to fight. Sometimes I throw out Aero. and then continue to heal. SCH may not be as powerful, but the Fairy helps even it out. it has its own heals and regens, that really help. I love WHM, but I like SCH as my secondary. and it has instant MP fill, which is something WHM should be given. So both are good in their own ways. it just depends on preference.

[shadowrell_d-_-b]

SCH is an awesome healing class I don't know why ppl complain about it -_-, they just don't understand how SCH is played WHM is supposed to be a powerful pure healer but SCH has so many different tools at its disposal as a healer and is IMO the best tank healer in the game its its all about being Proactive instead of Reactive!! ive easily out healed WHM on titan (not a bad thing BTW) due to just mitigating so much damage that the the WHM doesn't have to shell out so many heals to cover raid that they run out of mana giving them time to worry about that "OH SHIT" moment, WHM and SCH are the perfect tag team we allow each other to shine at our maximum ability while taking the stress of our weaknesses off of each other (WHM lack of high mana pool, SCH lack of AOE spike heals)

there's no reason to boost SCH or to even compare it to WHM neither is the better they are both a necessary part of a good raid group.

[peaches]

What the OP says it true to an extent. If we were supposed to be the damage mitigaters, why does our main damage mitigating spells - Adlo and Succor - even have a cure potency? Why not just make them pure bubbles, same total potency, just add the cure value to the bubble instead? Why give us a weak AoE heal that cures nothing, with a weak bubble that barely absorbs anything? It takes a lot of MP to cast a bubble that prevents ~150-250 damage, and the cure potency is 100% wasted if we're just casting it BEFORE the damage.

Yes I pre-bubble before damage, but its such wasted potential for what the class SHOULD be. Either give us one, or the other, not a half-assed combination. Maybe give us a separate AoE cure with a potency of 150 or something, to use after the bubble?

[Espon]

Only issue I really have is the fairy. When damage is a little dicey, it's easy to forget about putting her back into steady, causing her to blow her cooldowns. I would also like to be able to tell her to do something while I'm casting instead of only being able to do so between casts. Still, she's very useful as she allows us to heal two different targets at once and Rouse pushes her heals fairly high.

Personally, I find damage prevention has more uses than a flat heal. The damage people take isn't quite as spiky and it can effectively extend people's maximum health, which is useful when huge attacks are coming, especially if you landed a crit. Plus we can effectively keep Sacred Soil up half the time if we got aetherflow to spare, or drop it when a big hit comes.

Sure there's times when I wish my heals were a tad stronger, but that usually happens when people are taking a lot of unnecessary damage.

[kronpas]

When the majority was only leveling, any "fix SCH" idea (mostly pet issues) was drown out under the cry of "L2P, L2manage your pet". Once a good portion of the playerbase reaches Titan, most people agree SCH need a good fairy fix along with SMN, and 2SCH stacking is bad unless you got a real good party or had been massively outgeared the content.

I'm waiting till a good amount of people reach coil 3/4 to realize SCH's short coming in AE department. Tanks are switching to PLD for progression, WAR is mostly only good for add fights (ugh, which ones?), meanwhile SCH can still hide behind WHM's OP AoE, plugging their ears singing la~la~la~. Shielding for tankhealing is good, on par with WHM, but AoE shielding to prevent dmg is only an illusion, you can replace SCH by a WHM and double AE heal through dmg just fine since so far there aint unhealable one-shot mechanic which requires buffer shield on top of full HP.

"SCH is fine". ok I get it, but I'm switching to WHM until the class's myriad issues are fixed. Good luck and have fun =)

[Saefinn]

I love the way Scholar plays, I think to a degree there may be a misunderstanding of how it's played, naturally I don't want it to feel like a cookie cutter class, that's a problem I find in many MMOs. If Scholar needed tweaking, I'd either propose stealing the stratagem system from FFXI or boosting damage mitigation. Presently, I see no problem with it and I love it overall and yes, your playstyle will be different to a WHM, but I understand that SE has future content planned, so I'm not going to attempt to predict the future.

[Miiu]

Like others have stated if we are about dmg migation allow our shield to work above 100% hp.

[Garnatian]

There are 2 types of Healing. Reactionary and Pre-emptive. SCH can do neither of those better than a WHM. Until they give SCH a 100% Shield, they will always be behind the WHM.

Simple.

Why they thought combining a Shield and a Heal was a good idea I will never know, they serve 2 entirely different purposes.