Consolidated Scholar 4.0 Feedback Thread

[Starflake]

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- Shadowflare change allows me to use Sacred Soil more.
- I like Aetherpact, a lot.
- My mana seems completely fine and near infinite with Lucid Dreaming and smart casting.
- Even though Embrace had its potency reduced, I do not notice the difference at all in pre-Stormblood dungeons.
- Chain Startegem is cool.
- Excogitation is a great option when Aetherflow is about to come off from cool down and I have a stack left.
- I am okay with DPS nerfs. Before Stormblood I found myself getting salty when forced out of Cleric Stance because my DPS was useful. The DPS nerfs mean stopping to heal is not as consequential and I do not get salty over it anymore.
- SCH AoE DPS cannot be compared to WHM and AST. SCH AoE DPS is passive and practically mana neutral. AST and WHM cannot heal while doing AoE DPS and it greatly impacts their mana.

1. Sacred Soil is rarely useful at all and hardly worth the stack over Lustrate or Energy drain
2. Aetherpact is decent, although the range is pretty bad
3. Mana is indeed completely fine with Lucid Dream
4. Duration on Chain Strategem is too short. Should be twenty seconds. 15 feels and is too low of a timer
5. Exogitation is a terrible ability. Not only is it not guaranteed that it will in fact go off, it's only 50 potency more than a Lustrate. It's probably just better to use Lustrate as you know it will actually heal.
6. ScH AOE can definitely be compared to the other healers. The stun Holy gives is fantastic. As an AST you have Earthly Star, that 300 potency RNG move and Gravity. They much better raw healing on AST and WHM blows SCH out of the water. As a matter of fact, on my WHM, I could DPS a lot more than on my Scholar. I could barely get my dots up and Bane before I had to spam Lustrate. As a WHM I only needed to regen, put a Asylum down and Holy plus Assize plus Aero III. It does insane amounts of damage. But I guess because SCH is passive and has no mana cost while you can literally shit out 4 holies for free, I guess that makes it fine. I also don't understand this attitude that you got salty because you couldn't DPS anymore. But now, since your DPS as a SCH is basically crap, you can be happy again. I've never read such drivel on a forum for a long time.