Quote Originally Posted by Eloah View Post
While this seems to be a good generalization, it's a bit inaccurate. SCH doesn't have a Large heal, nor does it have an AoE heal, but it does have the faerie to compensate for the lack of those skills. One could argue overlap in certain areas, but seeing as both AST and WHM have individual skills that fall into the specific categories you listed, the skills SCHs lack cannot be ignored. This is what makes SCH the outlier, which isnt bad, but it's why SCH is a bit more difficult to balance compared to the other two.
Just like Jandor said, Adloquium and Succor serve as the large heal and AoE heal respectively, which is understandable to miss because of how often players forget that damage absorption effects do indeed qualify as healing. The main reason why they are harder to balance compared to standard healing abilities is because it can circumvent the usual ceiling for heals that is "overhealing", and this game isn't the only one that has had to deal with such an issue of balance (discipline priests in WoW say hi). To further impact this for Scholar specifically, there are other balance issues such as factoring in the Adloquium critical effect and faerie abilities that can be used while casting other heals.