Stoneskin II

[DreamWeaver]

you forgot the best cross-class skill, cleric stance. scholar has 5 good cross-class skills to take and none to replace

hahaha was hoping nobody caught that, damn you ExponentialDecay ><.

So my original question still stands, IF SE really allows Scholars to cross class Stoneskin 2, are you guys willing to give up 1 of these CC skills?
Or are you then gonna complain "UHHH we have not enough CC slots, SE plz give us unique "Mini-Stoneskin 2 spell plz?".

My crystal ball says that will not be possible because:
During combat, Adlo >>>> SS (for SCH, not WHM) , nobody would use both adlo and SS in combat, thus for Scholars, their SS is mostly used OUTSIDE OF COMBAT.
If they were to get their very own "Mini-Stoneskin 2", this will make Stoneskin 1 completely useless to them, thus freeing up another CC slot for usage.

EDIT : Reading back what I typed, I think I've just answered myself, you can probably take away Stoneskin as CC skill and replace SS2 with it, so I wish you luck in your crusade in getting SS2 as CC skill for Scholar

[Ophie-Mio]

During combat, Adlo >>>> SS, nobody would use both adlo and SS in combat, thus for Scholars, their SS is mostly used OUTSIDE OF COMBAT.

I don't feel like getting into a huge debate over the validity of which cross class a single person prefers since I agree with Rori above...but...
As this is actually a thing for my group who goes double SCH for T9, you actually should Adloq/SS for Ravensbeak. Adloq + Swiftcast SS. And T10 for the Critical Rip.
Whm can't do everything. Or maybe I'm just too used to working double sch?
When we do it with a WHM, they still end up leaving the Stoneskin business to me for Mega-Flare. *shrugs*
So yeah, not really mostly used out of combat.

Ps. Though I honestly just think that it should have been Stoneskin with a trait. Out of combat, AOE. In combat, single-target. Frees up a hot key slot for everyone.