Scholar

[bundythenoob]

your struggle in low leveled content comes from the fact that SCH originally was a job that traded defence for offence. your heal's potencies were lower than WHM or AST but your higher damage potential used to make up for it. I say used to because as all SCH players know.. as of SHB, the job lost almost all of that damage, but received NO changes to its older heals to make up for that loss, so sadly you're gonna struggle before you get to lv 62.

all I can recommend is that you make sure your gear is up to par. in lower levels (before lv 45), you're kinda stuck spamming physick since you no longer have the option to help deal damage by using miasma/bio and then bane to spread them to the mobs (like how current arcanist plays). Most of the time just give tank an adloquium before he pulls, and use physick to keep him topped off while throwing in an extra adloq every now and then. if you need to burst him back up, use the good ole combo of adloq + lustrate (lv 45). if your tank does a big pull, don't forget your fairy's regen skill Whispering Dawn, it helps with some of the damage coming in.

At level 58 you get Emergency tactics, which can turn your adloq into a stronger heal with no shield, so you can use that to help burst tanks back up with E-tactic Adloq + lustrate. at 62 you get excogitation, the best healing skill SCH has to offer. lv 70-80 your healing kit gets strong enough to match the other healers, but the balance of offence vs defence gameplay of SHB SCH for ARR and HW leveling kit has been destroyed.

hopefully Square realises this soon and brings back miasma/bane for SCH, cuz those spells really helped SCH make up for the lower potency heals compared to WHM and AST during the leveling process.