Quote Originally Posted by Midaja View Post
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There's already one fairy that can reliably increase the group-wide damage by 1.5%. The fairy you suggested can reliably increase raid-wide damage by 1.5% as well. Not only that, but also 3% mitigation. If you were to bring two scholars instead, both of these fairies would increase the group's damage by 3% - Let's forget about the multiplicative value for now. Not even an Astrologian can pull that off by pulling balances back to back with every draw. One fairy also has a resource stapler for the entire group. But the biggest one for the scholar themself - Not like Scholars already have the best resource tool among the healers anyway. If this "idea" was meant to make Energy Drain less important, where is the nerf idea for Energy Drain? As it is, especially for endgamers, they'll just use both. It's not a case of "choose this or that" with this idea, it's both.

The 3.0 abilities Scholars have gotten covered pretty much the very area they were weak in: AoE healing. In a sense, Scholars can already take over the White Mage's role as "main healer". The only drawback about this would be that it's not very resource efficient compared to White Mage. But with some extra resources available from a particular fairy and a permanent 3% mitigation, white mages will get pointed the door as well in favor for having the two fairies present. Simply due to how the content is designed: DPS is all that matters in the end.

So if they get tweaked down to an extend where they don't overpower the other healing jobs, why even have these? If the effects of the fairies are too underwhelming in the end for sake of not overpowering the other jobs, they're not appealing. Removing Embrace entirely would only make it harder for the other healer while you're doing damage.

These changes won't make it easier for other healing job, just makes the Scholar seem more valuable than it already is. If the numbers aren't appealing enough, all that will change is that Selene is being removed from the endgame throne and Eos takes over. After all; Selene can't help heal any more and the scholar will have to compensate.