Consolidated Scholar 4.0 Feedback Thread

[Starflake]

I just can't believe how dead this class is to me now. The only reason why I'm getting it to 70 is in the hope they buff the class and it becomes fun again. What were they thinking? It feels like such a boring class now. AoE is so depressing. Seeing only two dots go off and knowing they hit like wet noodles on most targets is terrible. Shadow Flare? Not off of cooldown yet? What do we do? Spam Broil and heal way more in between because our Fairy is not as good as it used to be. That's it. It's so void of all fun, but also of that feeling of contribution. I don't feel like Chain Strategem is good at all. It's too short. It should be 20 seconds.

[Rubiss]

I just can't believe how dead this class is to me now. The only reason why I'm getting it to 70 is in the hope they buff the class and it becomes fun again. What were they thinking? It feels like such a boring class now. AoE is so depressing. Seeing only two dots go off and knowing they hit like wet noodles on most targets is terrible. Shadow Flare? Not off of cooldown yet? What do we do? Spam Broil and heal way more in between because our Fairy is not as good as it used to be. That's it. It's so void of all fun, but also of that feeling of contribution. I don't feel like Chain Strategem is good at all. It's too short. It should be 20 seconds.

I have 100% confidence that no one in the development team actually plays Scholar. I would bet every last gil I have on that.

[Supersun]

I have 100% confidence that no one in the development team actually plays Scholar. I would bet every last gil I have on that.

They probably don't play any of the classes. I doubt they exactly have a ton of free time outside of developing the game to be raiding for like 5 hours a day lol, whatever classes they play is probably restricted to casual play.

[Rubiss]

They probably don't play any of the classes. I doubt they exactly have a ton of free time outside of developing the game to be raiding for like 5 hours a day lol, whatever classes they play is probably restricted to casual play.

Even casual playing of the three healers would make it obvious that they are not balanced. I'm not even sure they do anything beyond dummy testing. I'd be surprised if the development team actually ran their own dungeons. You honestly think MCH was tested in any serious way? That class is a joke, as is the QA and balancing of the classes.

[Emsii]

It's time we just remove dissipation in the game, no one uses it, its not worth losing the fairy. I'd rather get a completely new skill that I might use occasionally; maybe a fairy DPS ability to give us back our feeling of usefulness for DPS.

With excog I can see an increase to potency making it more worth while. Yeah the timer for going below 50% blows but if you only use it for someone who fell below half it could be a pretty great single target heal, or your "Oh sh*t button." Or keep it as it is and remove its need for the aether stack.

E4E shouldn't even be a role skill..it doesn't serve much purpose for the other healers and it is part of a scholar mechanic..not to mention its not even that great so no one is really going to take it..including scholars.

And as much as I love Sacred Soil, it's just not good. Give it a galvanize effect for those who enter it on top of the 10% reduction and it might be worth the aether stack, otherwise remove the aether stack necessity.

[Emsii]

Part 2

I can't say much about Fey Union or Chain Strategem just because I'm not there yet, but on paper Fey Union's range seems disappointing. Chain Strategem sounds like a great skill for raids.

The Aetherflow MP regen nerf is a bit upsetting, definitely forcing us to get Lucid Dreaming. However it shouldn't be a 10% regen, compromise a bit and make it 15% percent so it is still a nerf.

My overall critique of this class now is just that too many skills require Aether stacks when they are vastly outperformed by better skills. I understand the importance of choosing with a scholar, its all about the right strategy, however all it is doing is eliminating half the skills we have just because they are NEVER worth it.

[Riyshn]

Actually, with the nerf to Embrace, Dissipation is worth using in more situations now. ...until you get Fey Union anyway. Even if Dissipation isn't reworked, the negative synergy between those two does need to be looked at.

[tikiwiki]

Part 2

I can't say much about Fey Union or Chain Strategem just because I'm not there yet, but on paper Fey Union's range seems disappointing. Chain Strategem sounds like a great skill for raids.

basically schs kit is contrdictory and bad right now but they will be taken to raids over double ast or whm/ast to avoid lb penalty and because of how insane direct hit crits are they are being taken for 1 skill in their kit so i guess its a good class? but it doesnt feel good to play at all

[Starflake]

Today, I did the level 67 dungeon and I have a good tank with me. It's almost impossible to heal them through big packs, let alone DPS, let alone outpt DPS that is actually a contribution. I can't stress how bad it feels to Bane, use that pathetic Shadow Flare and then Broil fifty times. But you can't broil, because if you DPS more, the tank will die because the pet is horrible. It can't even keep up with auto attacks from one strong mob. Anyone who says that Scholar is in a good position does not know what they are talking about. What the hell do I have Excog for? It uses a stack and is barely different from a Lustrate, which is just as responsive. It's a terrible skill in dungeons, a bit more viable in raids (tankbusters). But even then, why does it cost a stack? It's a slighty buffed Lustrate for crying out loud. What am I to do with this crap, really? Aetherflow trait is so pointless as well, does it really help? It's worse than the WHM trait in terms of usefulness. This class is absolute garbage at the moment, in particular in dungeons. It has terrible raw healing and terrible DPS. But hey, we have an incredibly short crit buff. All is well. I'm done ranting. SE should seriously fix this crap, asap.

[Deox]

Unpopular opinion time.

I pretty much only play SCH and at the moment when it comes to being able to do our job as a healer we are fine. There could be a few quality of life things that could be done.

- Give us back spell speed boost on fairy crits
- Keep adlo cost the same raise potency by 50 - 100
- give us back sustain for the fairy
- increase tether range to at least 15 yards
- have tether cast have priority over any other action from the fairy so it's more responsive.
-idk do something about dissapation

Other than those tweaks the class is fine as it is. Mana is not an issue stop spamming adlo anf succor that's always caused us to mp out fast and they have always been ment to be used for specific things this is basically them driving that point home