Why do sch and smn share point allocation

[ManaKeKz]

just switch once a week instead of 10 times a day..

But once a week doesn't really cut it. If you're healing in higher end PvE content say 2 raid days a week and wanna play SMN in between, you'd have at least 4 books per week (2 switches to Scholar for the 2 raid days and switching back to Summoner after). I for one am not willing to farm 40k seals per week just so I can play my Summoner well so I just geared up my Black Mage and never looked at SMN again. Which is a shame, really - it's a fun job to play.

[shields977]

But once a week doesn't really cut it. If you're healing in higher end PvE content say 2 raid days a week and wanna play SMN in between, you'd have at least 4 books per week (2 switches to Scholar for the 2 raid days and switching back to Summoner after). I for one am not willing to farm 40k seals per week just so I can play my Summoner well so I just geared up my Black Mage and never looked at SMN again. Which is a shame, really - it's a fun job to play.

You can reassign your stats to 15 Mind and 15 Intelligence. That results in a mere 22 HP per Adloquium reduction on average according to the healing returns calculator here. That shouldn't prevent you from doing endgame content.