Quote Originally Posted by Brandedblade View Post
That's the point, from a healing standpoint Scholar is still functionally the same as it was with SB, just with a simpler dps rotation and some of the fairy's former free power moved to ogcd space.
But how this simpler rotation and OGCD space have been implemented changes the full picture quite a bit, making it feel a lot more like SB's WHM: spam Broil III (Stone IV) until you have to use a healing OGCD, weaved with Ruin II (Aero II or clip) which will be a DPS loss.

Only if you look just at the healing skills and the healing skills alone, with a marginal consideration for DPS costs, then yes the fairy's free power has been moved to AoE OGCDs (adding weaving requirement) with some mitigation thrown in.

Considering that outside ultimate we're still spending only ~10-30% of our time healing, the worse meshing of DPS + healing kit hurts a lot more than just adding weaving requirements would suggest.