Quote Originally Posted by eagledorf View Post
I think Scholar has just changed in a jarring way. You have no crowd control (Shadowflare) now, you can't force the fairy to focus Embrace on the tank because it can't be bound to the hotbar anymore, you can't spread DoTs while Adlo and Excognition are up and then heal, Rouse is gone, etc. Sacred Soil has regen now and a lot of potencies were increased so the job is plenty powerful, but so much change.
Actually the problem with sch healing now is it's not strong enough to power through big pulls without weaving at all. It's potencies are low due to shielding and that hurts them. EoS used to 45% a scholars output but now it doesn't. That powerful healz is a myth when you look at the potencies it actually does have. A good scholar has to weave emergency tactics into every second adlo to just keep up with large amounts of dmg. AST and WHM just need to keep a regen or two on you. Excog should only be used in situations where you'd use bene for tank saving due to lustrate being such a bad and useless heal now and sacred soil should always be on CD. The problem is SCH is such a focused healer you can't really offord to dps at all in most instances of dungeons, but in raids you effectively lose that focus all together.