Quote Originally Posted by Eloah View Post
A seperation has been talked about on the forums. But it's mostly because SE stated when HW was being released, that balancing the skills was a bit tricky. But when SB released that issue was seemingly resolved. But with the ShB release it looks like they are separating them... but aren't, we wont know until the release.
Considering Scholar was a downright oppressively dominant healer it was not resolved.

A big reason for this was the extra DPS coming from shadowflare and energy drain, but also the fact that Eos is basically a better regen for single target damage, the fact SCH has a lot of oGCD tools to avoid healing and to provide utility, has more damage in DOTS making it more mobile, and had around 2k extra potency per minute over the WHM, which has less utility and mobility.

Energy drain is a long term balance problem because it combined with aetherflow makes it impossible for SCH to ever have mana issues, which is problematic because with its insanely strong manaless healing, raid utility makes it a total beast. And it isn't like they really need mana restore; even without aetherflow, energy drain, or lucid a scholar can aoe heal 33 times or single target heal 22 times before ever having to pause even for a second to get mana.

The class was overtuned. This isn't really debatable. It needed to lose potency because a class with that much utility shouldn't also top potency. It needed to lose mana efficiency because mana... isn't a mechanic for scholars right now at all. It needed to lose the ability to use Eos as a superior tank regen. These things... needed to happen, because you can't realistically buff other healers to compete with scholar if it is just so good at everything that being better at one thing doesn't matter because scholar does it 'well enough' AND does everything else.

It is weird and not cool that the DPS rotation is getting simpler, though the fact they are reworking mana means that maybe aetherflow being used as an offensive tool (even if their overall potency was lowered and it didn't restore mana) would be a trap, as SCHs would be depending on it more for healing. Their thematics were also obviously hurt, and it is really incoherent they don't have an AOE DOT.

But lets not pretend that SCH was fine and should have gone into ShB as it was. I can't think of a more 'bad guy' job in terms of crowding out other jobs than SCH, besides perhaps WAR. A lot of things about SCH from SB were clearly oppressive.