se does not understand scholar

[Connor]

Hate to be ‘that guy’ but did we really need yet another thread on how Scholar is the worst job in the game etc etc.

Not saying people shouldn’t complain but there are already hundreds of threads about how Scholar is broken and boring and lazily designed and every dev who had a say in its development should be fired and blacklisted etc.

We get it, the devs get it, people who don’t play ffxiv probably get it by now, everyone hates Scholar. Surely this discussion could have taken place in another thread? I feel like the forums are becoming seriously oversaturated with Scholar / Astrologian hate threads that are all saying the exact same thing.

I just feel like players could send a much stronger message to the developers with a single consolidated thread than hundreds of different ones that are all the exact same as each other

Honestly, I’m starting to get tired of seeing all the exact same posts day in and day out. I seriously intended to main Scholar this expansion, but after seeing at least 2 threads a day on how it’s so bad and anyone who enjoys it just doesn’t understand how to play the class or healers, I honestly find myself just playing a Dancer, because it’s close to impossible to try and justify enjoying how Scholar is now to others, not without someone casting doubt on your opinions (e.g “if you don’t want an expanded DPS kit to weave into your OGCDs that do the entirety of your healing then you were never a good Scholar anyway). I honestly don’t think I’ve seen a single person try and make Scholar as it is more enjoyable, just endless calls for a reversion to every ShB change. I’ve also not seen a single suggestion that wasn’t for additional direct DPS tools instead of something actually interesting

And I mean, if a new player ever looked at the forums they’d be forgiven for thinking Scholar is literally unplayable.


As an addendum I still don’t understand where this concept of Scholar being a DPS/healer hybrid came from. It came from a DPS job purely for developer convenience (so they could add a new healer job without making a whole new class). If you ask me the ‘Heavy DPS / Low healing / fairy solo healing’ identity it used to have was purely incidental, but they didn’t want to change it so drastically mid-patch when every healer and their gran’s dog is a Scholar because deeps. It’s almost as if they tried to rectify Scholar’s incidental identity this expansion by simplifying the DPS kit and giving it more if a focus on healing (even if the concept was poorly executed)