SCH, 230 gear with Crit or 240 gear that doesn't have Crit?

[Ceasaria]

I don't really agree with what it said here.
I know, it's logical, critical seems to be the best stat for the scholar.
Maybe yes but you need to think how to choose your gears not only because of critical, but because of others stats too.

Already, I can tell you, as Scholar off healer, if you are playing with a very good main heal, you will not need a large amount of mana. I have the less mana as possible : 12600 mana (with buff party) and I want even less (10-11k, it would be nice).
Piety is a waste of secondary stats. And yes, Deter + SS > Piety + Crit. Anything which have piety is not good, anyway.
Plus, Spell Speed is just extra for dps. Okay, the dots are slightly affected...but you attack faster (I have 2.26 sec for Broil with miam miam). And no, your mana is okay with that.

If you're doing like that, you will have more Spell Speed than Crit but it's okay. There's just the relic you can put the amount of SS and Crit you want (+ accuracy).

[sackm]

in terms of DPS the Lore pants are BiS. 150+ of det and SS easily beats 100 crit. And you should never run out of mp outside of A8S so just get the pants

[Taika]

in terms of DPS the Lore pants are BiS. 150+ of det and SS easily beats 100 crit. And you should never run out of mp outside of A8S so just get the pants

SS is completely useless for Scholar and from what I've read Determination scales really badly at the moment, so I don't see how those would ever be more valuable than 100 points of Scholar's main secondary stat. The question is, is the loss of MND worth it.