My thoughts on Scholar since 4.05.

[Riyshn]

Wow, this feels exactly like the WHM threads back in 3.0 talking about WHMs lack of identity and basically being a worse AST...

It's the problem with trying to make a class that is explicitly a hybrid of of two others. There is basically only 3 states of balance that can exist: AST is weaker at both shielding and pure healing than SCH/WHM; AST is simply the best healer with both high throughput and good shielding; or it's better at one and worse at the other.

So long as it continues to be a hybrid class instead of having it's own healing identity, it will always just be "WHM/SCH but better/worse."

[RyuDragnier]

It's the problem with trying to make a class that is explicitly a hybrid of of two others. There is basically only 3 states of balance that can exist: AST is weaker at both shielding and pure healing than SCH/WHM; AST is simply the best healer with both high throughput and good shielding; or it's better at one and worse at the other.

So long as it continues to be a hybrid class instead of having it's own healing identity, it will always just be "WHM/SCH but better/worse."

When I originally heard that AST worked with cards, I always figured the cards could buff allies or adjust their healing. IMO just remove the Sects and make it so the cards can be put into a "healing stock" that will effect the next 5 Aspected casts. Bole gives shields, Balance is stronger potency heals, Spear has a higher crit rate, Arrow makes them cast faster, Ewer reduces their MP costs, and Spire gives them an HoT effect.

[Elamys]

When I originally heard that AST worked with cards, I always figured the cards could buff allies or adjust their healing. IMO just remove the Sects and make it so the cards can be put into a "healing stock" that will effect the next 5 Aspected casts. Bole gives shields, Balance is stronger potency heals, Spear has a higher crit rate, Arrow makes them cast faster, Ewer reduces their MP costs, and Spire gives them an HoT effect.

Hey, this sounds neat. I love the card system, they should focus more on it instead of it just being buffs imo.

[Archamgel]

Hey, this sounds neat. I love the card system, they should focus more on it instead of it just being buffs imo.

Not expecting them to change things anytime soon, but if they did an Astro 2.0 like they did to Bard, this would be really cool!