Quote Originally Posted by MiaShino View Post
There are some tricks you can use to make scholar better shield healer currently that are neat. I wish more healers had the same flexibility and learning curve that scholar has even now after it was changed.

Deployed Adlo shields especially under the effect of Dissipation are quite strong and with clever usage of Deployment you practically have ogcd shielding ability. Galvanize stacks with Consolation too for even more potent shielding! The downside of course is cannot be used with dissipation.

Is the boss transitioning into a phase where they cannot be targeted or forcing you to move? Adlo lasts for thirty seconds so Adlo yourself while there is nothing else to be doing, if well timed it will probably still be on you for the raidwide. Now you can weave a strong party shield by deploying your pre-existing Adlo even during uptime phases.

Is the tank doing big chungus pulls? Perfect! Pre-pull Adlo the tank then Adlo yourself while you are running by slidecasting. Now, when the tank loses Adlo you can deploy yours giving you a nice ogcd shield for helping mitigate big pulls.

While Excog is better to use with recitation there is some most amusing stuffs you can do by recitating Adlo onto a Dark Knight who then uses The Blackest Night on top of Consolation. Should the shields absorb all of the damage one attack does that would apply a debuff it will not apply the debuff.

More ogcd shielding options would a happy scholar make for this Lala over here. I can only imagine all of the tricky stuff I might be able to figure out.
That's all fine but Deployment Tactics has a 180s CD. Also it's a waste to use Adlo on yourself to deploy later considering the high MP cost of Adlo and how it's healing gets wasted on you. Deploying shields off yourself is a clever situational tactic I admit and certainly feels great, but it is also a very inefficient move that you get to rarely pull off, compared to Benison/Celestial intersection/Opposition that have 30s CDs/1 min CD and cost no MP.