Sch does not feel like sch...

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Now if only SE would stop nerfing the fairy and let us actually be a pet-centric class.

The fairy was to strong in Heavensward and some scholar were even able to almost solo heal A9-10 savage with the fairy alone. This was imo just a bit to much. Scholar had more or less an save spot in statics and the main reason was the fairy. By the way, i do agree that scholar feels less fun to play or clunky in SB and they should do sth about that. But imo the nerfs themselves were necessary, since no healer class should be (almost) mandatory.

At the risk of sounding especially snobby, you can tell how much raiding someone has done by how much they value Deployment

Not at all. Deploy is amazing and has it's use

I've said it multiple times and I'll say it again, SE need to get someone in the team with a good grasp of healing at Savage progression level, but also is sympathetic to casual gameplay aka the likes of levelling dungeons and 24 man. Let them go wild with the SCH and give it the rework it both needs and deserves, there's so much potential there to make it far more interesting and intuitive than it is now.

I don't think, they dont understand how healing in savage works, but balance healing is overall imo much more difficult then others roles, since you have to make every comp being able to heal content. Which restricts how different the healer classes acually can be and imo they'll need to be very creative when they introduce an new healer class. This class can't be an very reggen heavy and slow healer for example, since content is designed differently atm. But at the same time the new class should feel very different, then the healers we have already. Very, very challenging imo. At one point, i thought maybe they shouldn't do another healer, since everything is covered atm, but some lore hints got me excited. As far as i know, they hinted at at least 2 classes. One almost certain an healer and i wish the other class hinted at in the ff14 lore is aswell. By the way, what would you change for scholar?