Scholar Healing Guide

[Havenae]

Not sure that anyone has mentioned this yet... But it seems many of you aren't giving Adlo the credit it deserves, and here's why.

This is how Scholar can very much excel at high damage situations. Adlo isn't just a shield, it's a stopper, or a damage interrupter if you will. Meaning it'll nullify further damage for the amount the shield exists. So if your tank is getting hammered the very first thing you should cast is adlo, stop the damage, patch up with embrace and physick, then end with adlo again, or weave it in if damage continues to rampage the tank. Yes it eats up mp, but you're a healer, your mp should be going to healing in the first place. Which leads me to my next point.


I run as a summoner sometimes, other times on my dragoon, and I have to say the multitude of scholars that dps first and heal second is sad. If anyone in your group dies because you were busy dpsing, you failed. I don't care what your gear level is or what content you've cleared, if someone dies on your watch because of you doing something other than healing , then you are being a bad healer. The fact that you some how bumbled your way through whatever turn of coil, or CT or whatever extreme primal doesn't give you the right to ignore your responsibilities, even in a lesser dungeon, and allow someone else to just kick over. It's both selfish and very rude. We're Scholars, we heal. Can we dps? Sure we can, but it doesn't mean we should. I'm not saying you can't dps, when you know everything is well and taken care of, just don't make it your priority.

And certainly don't tell the person who just died (because of you), "I'm sorry but I just had to DPS, you understand. Right?'


And finally, the advice about hotkeying embrace. DO IT. Eos can pretty much solo heal any dungeon below the lvl 30 (higher than that given gear) mark with you throwing stoneskins and adlo (when level trunicate allows) But only if YOU are smart about it. Put her on obey leave her to guard. She'll autocast when needed but still give you the ability to direct her when AI isn't kicking in yet. This gives you a lot of time in those dungeons to do things like knit, think deep thoughts or even dps if you like. Plus getting used to controlling your fairies allows you to do things like essentially split cast healing spells (like heal this dps with embrace while you heal the tank, or Eos/Selene heals this dps you heal another, ect...) and better facilitates DPSing while also healing. Because Some of you may not realize, if you smack a keybind to heal or dps, you can smack the embrace keybind while casting and the fairy will do it, there's no delay, there's no "You can't do that while casting" You can in a sense cast two spells at once with your fairy which makes you incredibly bad ass.

Also take a good long look at how to make mouseover macros. They essentially turn your party window into healbot (a healing addon from WoW if you're not familiar. Or grid +clique Which was my preferred addons set.) Which consequently makes healing a hell of a whole lot easier.

Extra: I agree with the above post. Selene really doesn't seem worth the trouble or the sacrifice of whispering dawn, our single solitary regen spell. I'd much rather Selene be a dps or even tank pet or something for soloing or in cases where healing isn't as paramount. Eos is really the more robust companion for the scholar where as Selene is situational at best.