Upset about 6.0? It's time to ditch the Scholar.

[Wilford111]

Ultimately, the dev team only listens when player participation declines. If enough people dislike Scholar to the point it's by far the least played healer, you'll suddenly start seeing buffs and overhauls.

Is it not already the least-played healer in the game? Has the dev team not been receiving feedback/complaints all expansion long?

They can't think of anything new to add to SCH? Take one quick look at the healer forums.

[QooEr]

Is it not already the least-played healer in the game?

With only 3 healers and all content needing at least one healer to clear it, healer participation numbers get bloated compared to every other class in the game. Like, even imagining all 3 healers seeing equal amounts of play, all 3 would be among the most played jobs just from the fact they have to be there. A healer needs to be reaaaally bad compared to the other two to be at the bottom of job participation numbers. This is compounded by the fact that in 8 man content, if one healer is taken, youll almost always have to pick one of the other two. The only time a healer's participation was so low it was among the least played jobs was AST in eden's gate, and because of it it saw a few adjustments during the expasion.


However with a fourth healer in the equation (and one that fulfills the same role as sch, no less) youre no longer forced to pick between two options if another slot is already taken. Low participation of scholars could become pronounced enough that the devs might want to take action if they see it seeing as little play as ast did in 5.1.


With this in mind i will probably not level scholar until i see them make some changes, even if i like leveling my all healers first. AST and SGE look like plenty of fun to me from the trailer alone for me to be entertained for a few patches.

[Garnix]

Is it not already the least-played healer in the game? Has the dev team not been receiving feedback/complaints all expansion long?

They can't think of anything new to add to SCH? Take one quick look at the healer forums.

I think it is played a bit more than AST.
Data is from April, but it probably did not change much.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...11_april_2021/
https://i.imgur.com/DB6NyjN.png

And they did not say they cannot think of anything. They said they cannot think of anything "significant", which doesn't say much.
They did not say that for WHM, but from what we know, the only thing 'significant' that it got is a fancy new AoE HoT, which IMO, is not anything more significant than the new AoE shield that SCH got.

[Absurdity]

And they did not say they cannot think of anything. They said they cannot think of anything "significant", which doesn't say much.
They did not say that for WHM, but from what we know, the only thing 'significant' that it got is a fancy new AoE HoT, which IMO, is not anything more significant than the new AoE shield that SCH got.

If we ignore all the "lol SCH dead" memes for a moment then yes, WHM basically got shafted just as hard as SCH.

The difference is basically that WHM actually got some improvements with ShB, so people didn't go into the action reveal already pissed off.
For SCH on the other hand people have been complaining for over 2 years now and the trailer just told them that nothing is gonna change for another 2.