SE, what is the vision and identity of Scholars?

[inhaledcorn]

I mentioned this in the SCH mega thread, but I think SCH's identity now is the "flexible" healer. SCH has on-demand shields and passive healing (the fairy) which the other two don't. To really make it feel like the flexible healer that SCH wants to be, I think Emergency Tactics needs to become a toggle buff rather than a one-time cooldown. This solves quite a few of SCH's healing problems. The other thing I would do is add the 50 lost potency on Embrace back to Physick. I would make some adjustments to the fairies to better define themselves as the "healing" and "support" pets they claim to be. I would like to see Dissipation instead be a fairy swap to have better control of your pet and what buffs you send out/need without using too many resources. Fey's Union is still hard to fix because it really doesn't give SCH anything unique.

[LegoTechnic]

I mentioned this in the SCH mega thread, but I think SCH's identity now is the "flexible" healer. SCH has on-demand shields and passive healing (the fairy) which the other two don't. To really make it feel like the flexible healer that SCH wants to be, I think Emergency Tactics needs to become a toggle buff rather than a one-time cooldown. This solves quite a few of SCH's healing problems. The other thing I would do is add the 50 lost potency on Embrace back to Physick. I would make some adjustments to the fairies to better define themselves as the "healing" and "support" pets they claim to be. I would like to see Dissipation instead be a fairy swap to have better control of your pet and what buffs you send out/need without using too many resources. Fey's Union is still hard to fix because it really doesn't give SCH anything unique.

I'm just going to point out that I don't support some of these suggestions. SCH was designed as an original class idea and had its own identity and playstyle throughout both ARR and HW, whereas the first two of your fixes literally break down to "make them play more like a WHM" with a "WHM-mode" to turn Succor and Adlo into Medica and Cure II, and of less concern adjusting Physick to the same potency as the new Cure. We would literally have the same base toolkits as WHMs this way with a slow-response fairy rather than the lily system, and that's not what I want to see at all. I would ask for less homogenization, not more of it as that drastically diminishes class individuality.

Dissipation being a fairy swap is interesting but not really useful, though I do agree they need to be adjusted, in particular Selene.