Save Scholar: Add one last Class to the game.

[Vulcwen]

They've definitely made this game easier, but they've also toned down the fun for a lot of us who could actually handle 3.x rotations.

You mean 2.x rotations.. The rotation for SCH didn't actually change going into 3.0, the DPS kit we have is from 2.x aside from broil, which just replaced ruin/ruin2 as a spam skill.
When I first started playing, I switched to SCH because I couldn't stand the boring WHM rotation, with this nerf, SCH will get an even worse rotation than WHM (since the remaining SCH dots have a longer duration than WHMs). There is also no DoT-based job in the game with 4.0 because of these changes.

Anyway, there is room in the cross-role system to give SCH a AoE spam still: break.. it's 50 potency.. they only need to make it AoE.. AoE heavy in PvE won't be OP. (that said I like blizzard 2's animation.. that will be gone from the game as BLMs will never use that anyway).