You can't say you're giving SCH more control and then strip them of their secondary form of MP recovery, and also take virtually all their AOE mitigation options of Soil + Deployment Tactics, Fey Illumination. You even nerfed Consolation and turned it into Seraphic Veil 2.0 just to relegate the resources behind a gated seraph phase which ALSO now costs resources to use it's abilities, even the current dissipation penalty isn't so extreme and offers you a slight potency boost to your GCD heals during the fairy downtime.
This reduces the value of Adloquium by quite an amount, a deployed Adloquium is a much more potent shield & slightly cheaper than casting a Succor, plus it having a lengthy cooldown means that it cannot be spammed and can be used in anticipation of a stronger raid-wide damage. The removal of Deployment tactics would also make it undesirable to use Adlo in combination with Recitation since the other options are far more valuable.
For what reason? Soil is one of the best mitigation tools across the healing role. Sure Noct.AST/WHM still have damage migitation baked into their Collective Unconcious & Temperance, but those skills are not available to deal with as many raid-wide hits as Sacred Soil is.
I don't think this is a good idea, it's giving me blunt/slashing/piercing resistance flashbacks from Stormblood and they were removed for good reason.
Interesting idea, but way too strong unless the faerie gauge expires much faster than currently.
Tbh, I'd hope that the faerie gauge resouce is removed entirely and that the skills such as Fey Blessing + Aetherpact just have fixed cooldowns & Durations instead of being tied to a gated resource, then they could look into adjusting skill bloating we have with our oGCDs.
The Fey Blessing + Consolation skills could be combined into one keybind, as currently you can't use Fey Blesing during Seraph's summoning state and vice versa for Consolation.
Overall you have proposed to remove or nerf so many protective tactics that scholar currently provides, I would definitely have to pass on this iteration of scholar.



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