Scholar since 4.1 patch - how are we finding it?

[Brandedblade]

Even if the value is lessened, it's a value that still exists, and I for one am glad that Old CS is gone, it makes the said loop of investing dps vs healing much smoother, I wish new CS was more potent, or at least lined up better with raid cooldowns, but all and all I prefer the mind scaling and the fact that using the fairy to extend your dps uptime is still a thing, even if it's weaker

[Cynfael]

Even if the value is lessened, it's a value that still exists, and I for one am glad that Old CS is gone, it makes the said loop of investing dps vs healing much smoother, I wish new CS was more potent, or at least lined up better with raid cooldowns, but all and all I prefer the mind scaling and the fact that using the fairy to extend your dps uptime is still a thing, even if it's weaker

As I said before, I agree with the removal of old CS; I also suspect that Excogitation and Fey Union were designed with old CS in mind, for obvious reasons.

And yes, new CS is borderline garbage considering that it competes with other Role skills and has a fairly weak effect. Outside of AoE, healers aren’t putting out enough DPS that 5% for 15 seconds is proving very impactful.

[Lastelli]

As I said before, I agree with the removal of old CS; I also suspect that Excogitation and Fey Union were designed with old CS in mind, for obvious reasons.

I'm not sure about that...one of the reasons why SCH was so op in HW (and ARR as well, but we only had 2 healers back then) was CS and how it didn't affect eos' healing throughput, Giving SCH even more options to keep dpsing while letting ogcd/fairy skills do the healing would've been the perfect recipe to make SCH the undisputed healers' king, and since the devs had known that for a while, I can't imagine them giving SCH such options.

I agree though that Exco would've worked like a charm with the old CS.

[Deceptus]

As I said before, I agree with the removal of old CS; I also suspect that Excogitation and Fey Union were designed with old CS in mind, for obvious reasons.

And yes, new CS is borderline garbage considering that it competes with other Role skills and has a fairly weak effect. Outside of AoE, healers aren’t putting out enough DPS that 5% for 15 seconds is proving very impactful.

Agree 100% with this.