Quote Originally Posted by Euphares View Post
One spell that applies a shield to the entire group with no cooldown and several mitigation spells, it is a healer so by nature it has to have abilities that heal, they cannot make every spell a shield that would be nonsensical. Its identity is still in-tact, even more with the addition of the new ST enhancement spell its getting.
It's intact sure, but why take a scholar when sage will probably be better than it in every way?

I don't know if you've tried clearing a relevant savage raid in barely passable gear with 2 white mages, but I guarantee you that it's way more smooth to have a SCH/AST and a white mage, and if sage does indeed end up being much more mitigation focused and Scholar remains largely unchanged then you just know that people are going to only want to accept sages in PF.

Raw healing stops being valuable the moment people's health is full, but there is no such thing as overshielding outside of when you just outright don't need to worry about damage and your shields fall off