Wow! I've Been Healing All Wrong As Scholar.

[Allegor]

For me, the biggest revelation was I was using Adloquium way too much and Energy Drain way too little.

It seemed self evident the shield healer should, you know, keep up shields on the party proactively as much as possible. And why would I use my precious aetherflow stacks on a 100 potency Energy Drain when I needed those stacks for Sacred Soil and my "Oh Shite!" buttons?

Boy, was I wrong. ((At least, that what more experienced scholars say)).

The truth was I was burning thru my MP for a mediocre heal most of the time and ignoring a damage spell which could be weaved in my damage rotation while giving me back health and MP.

Currently, I'm slowly unlearning my bad habits.

To be entirely fair, it is quite misleading that what everyone calls the shield healer doesn't actually use shields as its bread and butter heals. I was totally expecting something like Disc priest from WoW (I know, I know, different games) when I first started playing the job, and at least during ARR and mid HW levels that's sort of true, but then it just almost entirely shifts its focus on fairy abilities and damage prevention/mitigation instead.