Scholar speed boost isn't as bad as it looks

[aveyond-dreams]

I personally would have preferred a damage buff as opposed to a speed buff for scholar. While I'll still level the class, I would like to have more damage abilities, preferably fairy themed as opposed to "tactician" themed. The aesthetic of Energy Drain and Biolysis just do not appeal to me. Art of War 2 also still seems really bland in comparison to Holy and Gravity 2.

[Darkpaw]

My money is on SAM biting the bullet for RPR.

Yeah i can totally see this.

[Liam_Harper]

My money is on SAM biting the bullet for RPR.

SAM looks great tbh. Some really good QoL coming their way, it's a fun class to play and they addressed gameplay issues well. I'm genuinely looking forward to it.

They certainly didn't say "we don't know what else we can do with SAM nor is Reaper similar to SAM, just better. Sage is definitely SCH, just better. Dps get more love and attention because the class designers main dps, but none of them main healer.

Movement speed as an ability doesn't serve much purpose, because you can never make it mandatory or hard to live without, because that locks healer comps to SCH + AST/WHM. They'd never do that. If it has a damage mitigation, that will be it's main purpose. But that doesn't fix the clunky pet AI, make the pet worth having, expand the toolkit in a meaningful way or add any exciting QoL that makes SCH enjoyable to play.

[Mimilu]

If I'm not mistaken the ability is not just a speed boost but also party mitigation, they could've just made it mitigation and it would've made no difference, that's how unimportant the speed part is.

They said it was during the SCH part of the live letter.
Unless it can be used outside of battle (which would actually make it a pretty nice tool for dungeon runs), I don't see people using this ability as a pure movement-boost over the damage mitigation. ;/

[EaMett]

They said it was during the SCH part of the live letter.
Unless it can be used outside of battle (which would actually make it a pretty nice tool for dungeon runs), I don't see people using this ability as a pure movement-boost over the damage mitigation. ;/

It will actually be somewhat useful when pulling multiple packs in dungeons. It's just a shame we all know it's the lvl 90 "ultimate" skill so we won't have it for the level grind.

[Minako_Yuki]

Reading everyone's opinions without seeing an umbral calamity occur is pretty wholesome. Nice to see what people think about the skill

[CaptainLagbeard]

It will actually be somewhat useful when pulling multiple packs in dungeons. It's just a shame we all know it's the lvl 90 "ultimate" skill so we won't have it for the level grind.

I think the SCH level 90 skill hasn't been revealed yet, in the live letter they briefly mentioned the Job getting a second "powerful" single target buff that wasn't shown off in the Job Actions trailer... Probably wasn't a finished design in time for the beta build used for the trailer...
And the speed one being kind of a fusion of Peloton and Troubadour... I will wait and see what to decide whether it's a joke or not...

[RyuDragnier]

They should just bring Selene back as a whole.
Use the SMN's Egi-assaults as a framework to make the 2 fairies have different skills.

They should have just made Seraph the permanent upgraded fairy if they really wanted to phase out Selene.

[Momo_Kozuki]

I assume it is both a mitigation and a speed boost skill.



If people stand in optimal positions, when they can run faster, you can get out of AoE. If you are still late, the mitigation will shield you. So yeah, sound ideal for raid progression team.


I can also see it being used for tank pulling wall-to-wall in dungeon. Faster group's movement speed = hitting the last group earlier, and the mitigation will also reduce tank's damage intake during pull.


Also, if you don't have a ranged class for Peloton and Sprint is on cooldown, a group speed boost to speed up is nice to have.

[Rosa_Frandlia]

It wouldn't have looked so bad if the ability showcase didn't have the SCH stand there for a couple of seconds after casting the speed boost before actually starting to run out of the AoE. They would have made it out in time if they had just ran normally.

You can also see it as "I have time to finish my cast and then move not losing my spell" when you don't have time to slidecast.