Can scholar get a spell or trait called Scan?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

But would people really use it? It would be a one and done spell since people would learn the boss' rotations/attacks by heart. Besides, nothing in this game is so complex that you need an ability just to learn what an attack does; all the game is "keep away from the glowy AOEs that do big owies and sometimes something else that makes you sick". Almost every class so far has the one or two abilities that no one ever uses due to them being overly situational or completely useless at the current end game, so this Scan ability is nothing but a novelty for the sake of "tradition".

[Gralna]

I wouldn't mind Scan being added to game as just a fluff skill that shows total hp, status immunities, and some basic lore (with most/all bosses being immune to it). I'd prefer though if they added it, for it to be a non class specific action, like sprint, instead of wasting a Sch skill on it.

[Ramien]

But would people really use it? It would be a one and done spell since people would learn the boss' rotations/attacks by heart. Besides, nothing in this game is so complex that you need an ability just to learn what an attack does; all the game is "keep away from the glowy AOEs that do big owies and sometimes something else that makes you sick". Almost every class so far has the one or two abilities that no one ever uses due to them being overly situational or completely useless at the current end game, so this Scan ability is nothing but a novelty for the sake of "tradition".

Hey, sometimes there's 'get in the glowy AoEs before they go boom,' but you're correct that there is no need for a Scan ability in the game as it stands. It could be turned into a debuff of some kind that increases damage dealt to the target, reduces evasion, but I'm not sure if that's really within the scope of the original ability, or if it should be just be given a different name.

[Mugiawara]

This game is so basic it's not even funny lol.
Neat stuff like this would be neat...but nah, serves no purposes...
DPS POWA! All you have to do and do the hula with your right foot in and out all day.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Hey, sometimes there's 'get in the glowy AoEs before they go boom,' but you're correct that there is no need for a Scan ability in the game as it stands. It could be turned into a debuff of some kind that increases damage dealt to the target, reduces evasion, but I'm not sure if that's really within the scope of the original ability, or if it should be just be given a different name.

If you plan to make scanning a debuff, it would be better off as a different name entirely. And I can already see the flood of threads whining how Scan is not like the traditional Scan. Goodness knows we have everything else in the game that breaks tradition for the sake of keeping things flowing and uniform.

[StouterTaru]

Scan wouldn't work in this game cause there nothing to be weak too, like in past FFs "this mob is weak to fire" doesn't exist in XIV.

All mobs are weak to fire, that's why blms cast it so much.

[Nalien]

I don't know why "it's a classic Scholar ability" is the reasoning here. Other than the oft-repeated "this doesn't make sense for this game", Scholar in FFXIV is, well, NOTHING like previous incarnations. Does it strike you as a master of black magic AND white magic? Or... does it seem like a healer with shields and a faerie?

Oh, sorry. Their original AF is very Scholar-like. That's something, I guess.

Sounds like reasoning to make Scholar more Scholar-like, in my opinion.

As it stands, Scholar isn't Scholar. It's Summoner II. They couldn't possibly give Summoner all the summons since there has to be some sense of balance. Scholar is literally just Rydia if her only summon was Sylph. It's Scholar in name and AF only, there is putting a different spin on a Job and then there is just not delivering that Job at all...

Throw in a strategic set of skills and actually make Scholar worthy of its title... Scan could easily work in a similar fashion to Aetherflow to be honest; You Scan an enemy, get stacks of Intel, can use them to use various abilities. Although we already have Aetherflow, so why bother? I'd love to see Summoner actually focus on the pets, rather than DoTs and Fester, and Scholar focus more on utilizing Aetherflow tactically. Just Sacred Soil is fairly lackluster... Such a shame that they couldn't get dual Jobs for a Class down well...

[Sapphic]

Actually, I think it would make a good machinist skill, seeing as past FF titles have had a 'tech' feel to the ability.

Could make it a debuff similar to trick attack from NIN or decrease piercing resist like DRG have.

Pro-tip for turn 11 as BLM, stay at the side move towards the front but out of cleave range, then you only have to sidestep twice to avoid nerve cloud(gas?). Covers your side? Side step out of it towards the front, sidestep back so out of frontal cone. easy ^_^

Phase 3? save a proc for just before he casts again and you have to move, if no proc, scathe.

[Sapphic]

This game is so basic it's not even funny lol.
Neat stuff like this would be neat...but nah, serves no purposes...
DPS POWA! All you have to do and do the hula with your right foot in and out all day.

Adding elemental wheel doesn't make it more complex, it just limits what spells/abilities you can use, So less tools to use means it makes it even "more basic". Weak to fire? spam fire. Weak to ice? spam ice. no weaknesses? Use your full set of abilities. Which of the 3 is most basic?

Or you mean like FFXI where it was spam thunder, unless mob is strong to thunder and only then did you spam something else. Or weapon skills, you only use 1 for 99% of everything, rest are ignored as the one you use is the most potent. THAT is basic.

[Altijacek]

I don't think anyone read my OP lol. And people so hostile, shooting the idea down...that isn't even the idea I had XD

I know scan to determine hp would be useless fluff, and to determine rotations is silly and would trivialize stuff. But that's not what I suggested. I can do any number of things. Like maybe it scans and reduces the damage of the next ability because lore wise we found out what It will do next. Or it scans and reveals a weak spot for extra crit chance (and maybe after being exposed, the monster, in terms of lore, covers up his weak spot making him unable to be scanned for a minute or so, like virus). Or it could have any number of effect. It would be a new take on a classic ability that belongs to a classic job with a new spin