Does Adloquium need a minor fix?

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Noctural Astrologian will stop looking bad to your eyes when you guys stop trying to make it work like its a Scholar.

Noct AST vs SCH is less about outright advantages and more about situational advantages that each can provide. In fact, the one "advantage" you posted for Noct AST is actually also about situational advantages too.

This analysis is pretty good and points out what I like to show to some friends when they start comparing SCH and Noct AST in the wrong way. I'd probably add a coment on the CU regen for Nocturnal that is really strong. Even though Nocturnal AST is not a bad healer, SCH excels it mostly because on how encounters are designed in general for FFXIV. I think I would only see a good Nocturnal AST sruggle on current fights if we put them on A8S to be honest. Maybe not even there. That being said SCH also has better synergy with his possible partners than Noct AST has with his only non-repeatable job match-up WHM. We can only wait what next encounter designs and expansion's abilities and spells will show us.
About Darkness damage: sadly even Disable doesn't work on it. Its more off "pure" damage and can only be mitigated by shields. So huge against Darkness Damage like J Kick SCH is king with Deployment and AST is king if its constant damage like Sephirot ads.

Scholar MP is also near limitless, while white mage and AST have MP problems in heal intensive fights, so I don't see a reason to fix it.

Depends on what you're aiming to do with the mana pal. You can spam Adloquium and/or Succor and watch as you go OOM quicker than AST does. Not onmly that but WHM and AST both have random-like triggers that involves mana, for WHM being Freecure, Overcure, Enhanced Medica and Esuna proc and for AST being Ewer while SCH healing capabilities depend on a combination of MP and Aetherflow management, if you balance these two badly you'll end up seeing yourself with less mana than you should.