After healing T8, I feel that critical isn't very helpful even for scholar?

[Richiealvian]

Yeah, only now have I realized how good the MND stat actually is. All the sub stats are really just there for you to indulge yourself on, but for long fights they won't make or break you, surprisingly. If anything, I see spell speed, if stacked up to 1.55 cast time would be amazing (from using presence of mind on a WHM).

[Menae]

It would take like 4000 spell speed to get cast times down that far though.

[KiraVaela]

Mostly what has been said is true. Crit is very good to have for Sch, no doubt about that. I would just add that once your adlo crits, it gives both you and your Whm partner some time to breath. You can apply some dots or do whatever si helpful for your party at that time without worrying too much about tank getting dangerously low. That is very nice thing about crit adlo beside saving mps both for you and your healing partner obviously. You don't have to rely on crit for consistency, but in the long run, it will make life easier (even more consistent one would say) for both healers. And don't forget of course it's not only adlo, but succor (initially weak, but crit makes it a lot better), pet's actions and other stuff (dots for example) also makes a difference. So don't lose all love for crit because you can't directly see those big numbers instantly making wanted impact. They do matter.

[wizzed]

I said to build spell speed and piety, I got comments like these 2 stats are the worst for scholars. Why is that? I don't get it. I prefer consistency and I hate to rely on RNG.

[rhemi1]

I said to build spell speed and piety, I got comments like these 2 stats are the worst for scholars. Why is that? I don't get it. I prefer consistency and I hate to rely on RNG.

Because they're still the worst and you're still wrong.

[wizzed]

Because they're still the worst and you're still wrong.

And you are all over the place.

[rhemi1]

And you are all over the place.

I'm a healer, forgive me for visiting the healer forums.

[SeraviEdalborez]

I said to build spell speed and piety, I got comments like these 2 stats are the worst for scholars. Why is that? I don't get it. I prefer consistency and I hate to rely on RNG.

The amount of speed you would need to meaningfully react to "stuff happening" is far beyond what player gearsets can hope to achieve. There are very, very few situations where being able to get a heal off ~.10 to .15 seconds faster would save someone. And if it's not saving someone, what's the point? Don't want to ride the GCD for heals when you don't need to; just drains MP faster.

I'm not gonna touch PIE debate because my opinion that it is a nice stat in the 2 non-crit slots we can pick it for is still unpopular.

Crit isn't "relying" on RNG. It's just that Det doesn't add that much and "base" (ilvl/MND/weapon damage, no other secondaries in account) healing is enough for everything.

[Kitru]

Why is that?

Speed is terrible because it has a horrible conversion rate and doesn't benefit your fairy, whereas Crit and Det both benefit your fairy. PIE doesn't benefit your fairy either, which is why it's generally considered to be worse, but I like it because it means more Adloq spam, which I, personally, think contributes more than Det, even if Det adds to your fairy as well.

[Menae]

Speed is terrible because it has a horrible conversion rate and doesn't benefit your fairy, whereas Crit and Det both benefit your fairy. PIE doesn't benefit your fairy either, which is why it's generally considered to be worse, but I like it because it means more Adloq spam, which I, personally, think contributes more than Det, even if Det adds to your fairy as well.

Well, that and Aetherflow. Aetherflow magnifies the effects of the Piety you do have, meaning you don't need as much to get to sustainable levels of mp. That said, you might be onto something by using piety; for every 100 extra mp they start with, a scholar gets 700 extra mp to use over the course of a ten minute fight (100 starting mp, 400 from natural regen, 200 from 10x Aetherflow). That's a little over four physicks turned into adlos (or most of a resurrection), for the cost of 13 piety's worth of stats.

WHM get 500 mp over the course of a ten minute fight for every 100 mp they start with, since Shroud doesn't scale, sadly.