SCH is trash in its current state

[Connor]

Well, if all these complaints continue we’re almost guaranteed to get buffed back to god-tier. I wouldn’t be surprised if they add both Energy Drain and Energy Siphon to Scholar. Miasma II will make a return, healing potencies across the board will be increased, Fairy will likely see any potency reductions returned to normal. oGCD strength will be returned to normal.

In terms of MP regen I think they’re trying to push Scholar to meld piety. I melded a ridiculous amount last patch (don’t ask lol) and I’ve yet to have serious MP issues. Even spamming Art of War with trusts in the lv71 dungeon, I’ve yet to find myself entirely out of MP with no Lucid.

Honestly, I’ve done some runs of the level 71 dungeon and I really don’t see the problem. Even with the tank pulling mobs balls to the wall I didn’t feel like I was inadequately equipped to deal with it. There was less time to spam Art of War and I had to think carefully about what heals I used instead of just throwing up an Excogitation as soon as it’s off-cooldown.

I also feel like you have to be more tactical with how you use your healing spells and aetherflow. You can’t rely entirely on oGCCs anyone, which I don’t see an issue with really. I mean, Scholar was the only job with an oGCD kit that’s stronger than its base kit with no real requirements to use them besides aetherflow.

Spamming Broil III is boring as hell, I’m not so unreasonable as to disagree with that lol. But I hope the healing requirements continue to get gradually higher to the point that we won’t just be spamming it the whole fight

[TonberiScholar]

I also feel like you have to be more tactical with how you use your healing spells and aetherflow. You can’t rely entirely on oGCCs anyone, which I don’t see an issue with really. I mean, Scholar was the only job with an oGCD kit that’s stronger than its base kit with no real requirements to use them besides aetherflow.

Spamming Broil III is boring as hell, I’m not so unreasonable as to disagree with that lol. But I hope the healing requirements continue to get gradually higher to the point that we won’t just be spamming it the whole fight

"Just" oGCDs, no.

But you can definitely get by with just oGCDs, oGCD-buffed things (mainly using Recitation with Adlo/Succor) and Fey Union, for at least dungeon content. I've only done up to the third ShB instance so far, but I've also ran 50/60/70 dungeons (one in each level bracket), several leveling roulettes and even a comical/frightening amount of Guildhests (friend wanted the Challenge Log).

I'm not all that great a player, either.

We're still not 'having' to use Physick (which seems to be what the 'heal more' people want).

And all this is before Seraph/Fey Blessing, even.

They didn't do anything to make us replace damaging GCDs with healing GCDs. They just snipped out almost all of our DPS options, all of our DPS decision-making, and then gave us Recitation. That's not going to fix any of the actual problems with Healer balance at the high end, and while it makes the low end more forgiving, it also makes it incredibly tedious.

If you use your cooldowns, you'll probably be okay. But that doesn't make it interesting, varied or fun, and they've stripped out or changed every consistent bit of identity it's had since ARR.

Scholar's DPS kit is functionally the same at 80 as it is at 20, and its healing kit basically just transitions from "Eos does all the work" at about pre-30 to "Excog, Lustrate, Eos and Fey Union do the majority of the work and Recitation/ET do the rest".

We could easily lose Repose from the Role actions, replace it with an old Energy Drain clone (iunno, "Aspir"?) and every Healer would be vastly improved.

Return Shadow Flare and make it use an Aetherflow stack, then call it a day.

We're probably not likely to get much more than that.