useless scholars

[sackm]

I just love the Scholars that stoneskin the entire party and proceed to NOT ONCE ADLO/SUCCOR THE TANK PREPULL. Sch's honestly shouldnt even have stoneskin on their bar once u reach 60.

[Kabzy]

I just love the Scholars that stoneskin the entire party and proceed to NOT ONCE ADLO/SUCCOR THE TANK PREPULL. Sch's honestly shouldnt even have stoneskin on their bar once u reach 60.

Firstly, Succor before a pull sounds like it would be completely useless because 99% of the time only the tank will initially take damage. I like to apply Stoneskins just as a mob is about to die to save time, and around 90% of the time cannot apply Adlo because the tanks seem to always be running for their lives to finish dungeons.
Secondly, not having Stoneskin on your bar would make you a rubbish healer. There have been countless times on A1S that, during the jump, someone has the weakness debuff and they were only able to survive getting a deployed Adlo AND Stoneskin / Sacred Soil. You get EVERY ability for a reason, make it work or just be a sub-par *insert job here*.

[technole]

It is true there are casual SCHs that think they are WHMs though and never seem to use Adlo pre-pulls and only stoneskin, or using that skill so often you wonder if they even know that Adlo is the de-facto best shield ever. Stoneskin is still good to have to cover weakness debuff situations and they won't survive without more than their weakness HP, and could be used in situations to "heal" where you are in clerics.

Now Succor before the pull was absolutely worth it back in Turn 11 and 13. The party getting hit not long after the pull situations were far-and-between. With Deployment Tactics now, we have a better option.

[kasplat]

My primary reason for having Stoneskin up on everyone besides the tank is simply to easily see who is getting hit. My expectation is that people shouldn't be getting hit if they aren't tanking, but I've found that expectation is usually not met, in particular with melee taking AoE damage that they shouldn't have. After a few times seeing the Stoneskin disappear I know what kind of player I have and can watch them more closely.