Why doesn’t scholar have a unique AOE spell?

[Anhra]

The only problem I have with gravity is that it doesn't draw in enemies.. like c'mon!! It's called GRAVITY!!

It does make enemies gravitate towards you if you hit them before the tank does, duh.

[SwordswornFox]

As someone who plays a lot of fighting games: I like our sch baby 'demon storm/raging storm/pillar blast.' Just the image of bookish Veira/Lala/Miqo trying to replicate those gives me a chuckle.

[RyuDragnier]

Let it apply a dot. I’d be happy.

Let it apply Silence to interrupt targets. Heavy is pretty useless, meanwhile Stun can be too OP. Silence gives us a niche to where we can interrupt a lot of annoying moves on the enemies in dungeons.

[Warlyx]

Art of war animation is meh....

[Rongway]

Let it apply Silence to interrupt targets. Heavy is pretty useless, meanwhile Stun can be too OP. Silence gives us a niche to where we can interrupt a lot of annoying moves on the enemies in dungeons.

Even a single target spammable Interrupt, let alone an AoE one, would be grossly OP. There are trash mobs with interruptible actions that a tank or ranger should watch for so they can Interrupt. They shouldn't get interrupted just from anyone spamming an AoE.

[RyuDragnier]

Even a single target spammable Interrupt, let alone an AoE one, would be grossly OP. There are trash mobs with interruptible actions that a tank or ranger should watch for so they can Interrupt. They shouldn't get interrupted just from anyone spamming an AoE.

*stares at WHM spamming Holy*
You sure about that chief?

[Rongway]

*stares at WHM spamming Holy*
You sure about that chief?

Spammable Stuns are not the same as spammable Interrupts. If you're spamming Holy, it stops Stunning before those interruptible actions start casting. Interrupts never stop working, so a spammable Interrupt would be OP because it requires no timing considerations. You just spam it.

[hobostew]

If you're spamming Holy, it stops Stunning before those interruptible actions start casting. Interrupts never stop working, so a spammable Interrupt would be OP because it requires no timing considerations. You just spam it.

On the other hand there are very few things that cast interruptible spells anyway so it wouldn't be that big of a deal. This game doesn't have a strong focus on interrupting things like other MMOs do.

Also, MNK used to be able to aoe interrupt with Arm of the Destroyer but it did require the correct stance.

[Rongway]

On the other hand there are very few things that cast interruptible spells anyway so it wouldn't be that big of a deal. This game doesn't have a strong focus on interrupting things like other MMOs do.

Also, MNK used to be able to aoe interrupt with Arm of the Destroyer but it did require the correct stance.

MNK's infinite Silence took either great skill or great inefficiency to use. A MNK could solo silence all the High Voltages in Coil T1/T2, for example, but their GCD speed had to be exactly right or they had to hold back. Anyway, that's moot because they don't have that anymore.

A spammable, every GCD, AoE Interrupt would trivialize e.g., chimera mobs, especially when found in pairs or more, and trash mobs with dangerous buffs. As things stand, a tank or ranger has to know which mobs can cast Interruptible actions, keep an eye on them, and be able to pick them out of a group of trash mobs in time to Interrupt them. This is several steps more involved than "spam an AoE".

[hobostew]

How often do you fight chimaeras? Can you point to a specific trash enemy with a dangerous buff? I feel you're taking what you learned elsewhere and trying to apply it here not realizing that trash in this game is really really bare bones with absolutely no bite to it.

At best having a spammable silence would help with that one dude in the first pull in Pagl'than. That's it.