Started leveling Scholar today after getting my WHM and BLM up first. Believe it or not, but in some boss FATES, I would actually not be able to get a gold medal! I am by no means a bad Scholar at all. The Big Boss FATE was at 80% when I joined, and my uptime on dots was probably around 90% with Broil spam and a Shadow Flare that would get nothing sometimes as they moves the boss around. From 80 percent for crying out loud, silver medal. Then it dawned on my that my baned dots at the moment do a whopping 200 damage on the fifth and next mob. Am I doing pre level 50 content or what? Everyone who is saying that these changes are justifies don't know what they are talking about. Outside of Bane and Shadow Flare, we have NO aoe ability. This concretely means that you can be in situations where you simply can't AOE because no stacks, no CD on cooldown or other situational things that will happen. I'm so upset with how they butchered this class.