Consolidated Scholar 4.0 Feedback Thread

[RevoluXoN]

I feel SCH is really weak compared to the other 2 healers right now.

MP goes down extremely fast now since aetherflow gives only 10% MP and Adlo's MP consumption got significantly increased with absolutely no changes on potency or effects. Lucid Dreaming helps but you end up with no MP in boss fights anyway, as long as you are DPSing ofcourse.

Single target DPS is fine, i can live with the lack of DoTs, but AoE DPS is a joke now...

Excogitation is bad, i mean BAD, taking 1 aetherflow stack for a heal that only works when your ally's HP goes under 50% and only lasts 30 seconds (oh yes, you cant use it on yourself)... there is no point on casting it for a CHANCE of triggering it since it not guaranteed that the HP of your ally is going down during that time, if it doesnt you just wasted an aetherflow stack... i rather save it and use Lustrate if needed since it is instant cast and has almost the same potency.

Chain Strategem sounds good but is not that good in paper since the duration is only 15 seconds, how many GCDs is that? 4/5?, with only a 15% increased chance of crit on a SINGLE enemy.

Quickened Aetherflow (Trait) rarely procs, you only get 3 uses of aetherflow on a 20% chance of cutting the CD by only 10 seconds... it's funny since WHM users were complaining about low chances on their new Lilly mechanic and it got buffed significantly, but we keep the utterly low proc chances on our new trait.


What needs to be changed IMO:

Adloquium: Either lower the MP consumption or increase the shield potency (AST has better shielding abilities now)

Bane: Decrease the penalty on the 5th+ targets to 50% (down from 80%)

Excogitation: Make it heal if the effect is not triggered after the 30 seconds timer, allow it to be used on the caster.

Chain Strategem: Either increase its duration to 30 seconds, or increase its effect to 30%.

Quickened Aetherflow: Increase the chance of reducing the cooldown on Aetherflow from 20% to 50%.

Embrace: There was no need to nerf it... just increase its potency back to 300.

Fey Wind (Selene): I would also love to see Fey Wind buffed a bit to make it stand against AST buffs, 3% is barely noticeable...

[Judge_Xero]

Points on SCH

I agree with a lot of Adrens points. There are a few QOL things that can be addressed on SCH.

Bane: Decrease the penalty on the 5th+ targets to 50% (down from 80%) -> Definitely. I feel SCH's AOE was nerfed a little too much given the combination of losing Bio + the tiered potency Bane gives.

Excogitation: Make it heal if the effect is not triggered after the 30 seconds timer, allow it to be used on the caster. -> While not being able to cast on ones self isn't a big deal because a lot of the time you will use it on something you know will go out of range that will require healing or a tank buster, I do agree that it should proc @ 30s regardless. From using it countless time so far to find the best use for it I find that it takes a while to register even when the target drops below 50% to the point where if they have regen it may not even trigger if they're healed back past 50%. I like the idea of the skill but it could use those QOL changes.

Chain Strategem: Either increase its duration to 30 seconds, or increase its effect to 30%. -> I was excited about this skill @ 20% CRT every 90s. @ 15% every 120s it's pretty trash.

Embrace: There was no need to nerf it... just increase its potency back to 300. -> The Fairy sustained heals were pretty OP. I feel 250 Potency Embrace is fair especially with the addition of Fey Union.

Fey Wind (Selene): I would also love to see Fey Wind buffed a bit to make it stand against AST buffs, 3% is barely noticeable... -> While this skill isn't that noticeable it has always worked ok through the previous tiers. I don't see a need to change it.

Mainly, fix Exco, Bane and Stratagem and give SCH the ability to properly weave (Ruin II to weave is not a good option). Since Bio is upgraded to Bio II it should keep the same 18s timer instead of 30s, but with increased Potency. The short timer will help with weaving and balance out SCH's AOE compared to the other classes.

i.e. Bio II -> 60 Potency @ 18s.