Please Nerf Shield Healer Pure Heals

[FoxCh40s]

Man, I remember those days; that was in fact the reason I decided to go Scholar in 2.2. I got sick of White Mages Mp issues and started leveling the job and absolutely fell in love with it. Casting before the damage, rather than after took me a while to learn, but I eventually got the hang of it.

Scholar was great at single target healing efficiency, but really weak on the AoE aspect, making you plan with Whispering Dawn, Succor, and other contingencies; it felt GREAT. The real reason Scholar got knocked down a peg is because our shields and fairy heals were always crazy strong at the end of the patch cycles, causing people to cry that it was OP, then forget just how much trouble we have healing in a dungeon at minimum iLVL early on.

Ive entirely stopped playing healers, mostly because there is zero identity left in any of the best healers. Scholar has zero identity, Astro is slowly getting stripped of it; White Mage is the same because it never had anything to loose, and if they did, they just annoyingly got it back at a higher level with a crappy coat of paint.

Ive given up on them fixing healers, because I know they wont. Once Square changes something this drastically, they never go back.

[Semirhage]

Totally agree with the original post about giving this sort of treatment to Scholar if they want to double down on the shielding.

The real reason Scholar got knocked down a peg is because our shields and fairy heals were always crazy strong at the end of the patch cycles, causing people to cry that it was OP, then forget just how much trouble we have healing in a dungeon at minimum iLVL early on.

Hooooweeeeever.... I can never pass up an opportunity to contradict the perception that Scholar "wasn't OP".


Scholar was crackers bananas busted bonkers overpowered. Or if you want to take the opposite view, White Mage and Astro were MUCH weaker jobs than Scholar in early Heavensward. That damage gap doesn't lie. You can chalk it up to awful oversights in WHM and AST design, but a gap that wide makes squabbles over the specific patch-to-patch meta in this expansion look petty.

[Ftail]

Man, I remember those days; that was in fact the reason I decided to go Scholar in 2.2. I got sick of White Mages Mp issues and started leveling the job and absolutely fell in love with it. Casting before the damage, rather than after took me a while to learn, but I eventually got the hang of it.

Scholar was great at single target healing efficiency, but really weak on the AoE aspect, making you plan with Whispering Dawn, Succor, and other contingencies; it felt GREAT. The real reason Scholar got knocked down a peg is because our shields and fairy heals were always crazy strong at the end of the patch cycles, causing people to cry that it was OP, then forget just how much trouble we have healing in a dungeon at minimum iLVL early on.

Ive entirely stopped playing healers, mostly because there is zero identity left in any of the best healers. Scholar has zero identity, Astro is slowly getting stripped of it; White Mage is the same because it never had anything to loose, and if they did, they just annoyingly got it back at a higher level with a crappy coat of paint.

Ive given up on them fixing healers, because I know they wont. Once Square changes something this drastically, they never go back.

I remember back near the end of the 2.0 cycle, I was going through dungeons as a SCH and never exiting cleric stance because my fairy could almost solo heal trash and boss pulls with the occasional lustrate being needed, back when lustrate was percentage based. Now the fairy does so little healing it's just pitiful. How the times change.