Scholar upgrades - possible patches -

[KDSilver]

Cardia is more like Sage's answer to Embrace, Assize, and Star. Players have been asking to have more abilities like Assize and Star, particularly for SCH, but SCH has kind of already been doing that this whole time as Embrace is continuous, and entirely passive. Cardia, Assize, and Star are definitely way cooler, but they also have CDs. Kind of a tradeoff in my eyes.

The old Embrace wouldn't work now because we lost fey skills being on the pet hotbar. It also wasn't ideal for controller users, or at least it wasn't for me. As I've been saying though, SCH needs to cocoon and emerge anew. An updated Embrace would be most welcome, and I for one welcome some brainstorming as to what it does.

I don't get it.
How is Embrace not working anymore ? I was suggesting to give SCH something similar so that Embrace actually go on the MT or whoever you want Embrace to heal instead of going on that random dps.
Embrace being out of control is just bad. The fact that SGE get Cardia proove they could do something for SCH about this.

[VictoriaLuv]

I don't get it.
How is Embrace not working anymore ? I was suggesting to give SCH something similar so that Embrace actually go on the MT or whoever you want Embrace to heal instead of going on that random dps.
Embrace being out of control is just bad. The fact that SGE get Cardia prove they could do something for SCH about this.

cause don't have control over it fairy heal who ever has the lowest hp. not the person needs it the most also are slow atr activating abilites sometimes it results in someone dieing cause ai is dumb

[KDSilver]

But that's precisely the problem I point.
Embrace out of control is bad.
And SCH should in my opinion have something that make Embrace heal one dedicated target.

[Sylvain]

Personally I wish the fairy gauge heal would be stronger.
For a heal that requires a ressource taking 3min to build it's quite underwhelming atm (hence why people complain their gauge is always full)

I would like dissipate to have it's duration reduced to 15~20s at most, it's healing bonus affecting ogcd and also reset the cd of indom excog and SS.
This ability just doesn't work with its current iteration hence why we use it as an extra DPS button (which I believe isn't the initial intent).
Perhaps buppimg it to 5min cd would be needed to compensate...

Emergency tactic should also grant a healing bonus or a Crit chance bonus.
Now that we see that sage can choose between healing and shield mode, it means in a heavy healing situation like the end of e12s, a sage is strictly superior to a sch because they effectively have a spammable "medica" like Noct AST has.
I like the idea that sch has to be more tactical about when they want more GCD heal, but being able to have a single medica every 15s should at least come with the benefit of it being stronger than your regular medica.

I'd like 2 new fairy command
- go to the center of the arena
- focus heal a specific target

And finally I wish we would have had a new fairy skill and a Fey blessing buff (increased healing at the cost of 20 gauge OR current iteration with 30s cd)

I was really hoping for some sort of new gauge skill and maybe some sort of DPS healing interaction like broil grant 1 pts of fairy gauge and byolisis grants 10 pts over its duration.

This would have been 22 extra point per minute assuming 0 GCD healing

But oh well, we'll see.
Maybe with all the salt we've poured maybe they'll craft something unexpected for the releass.

[Deceptus]

The fact that we even have the Gauge is still rediculous. It's for one skill, one damn skill. Why not just put it on a freaking cooldown instead of all this building non sense for a extremely underwhelming ability?

If the Tether gave someone like an increase to damage and movement speed, then totally worth the build, but basically a Roused Embrace?

Why?

Two skills.

Fey Union and Fey Blessing (lol). I'd honestly prefer Fey Blessing have 2 charges and a 30s recharge at this point. I might actually use it then.

[KDSilver]

Two skills.

Fey Union and Fey Blessing (lol). I'd honestly prefer Fey Blessing have 2 charges and a 30s recharge at this point. I might actually use it then.

Well technically speaking, since Broil is 1,5s (not need to weave it) now and Fey Blessing cost no Fey Gauge, it'll has more uses.
Don't get me wrong though, it doesn't miraculously make it be awesome. It's less bad.

That said... Fey gauge definitly need something else to spend it on.

[Sylvain]

A boost to the potency would be nice
It's not that strong when you take into account that the fairy stops healing

Another thing that would make it good would be stronger boss AA. Too many bosses spend 80% of the fight casting which makes tank heal requirement quite low. Even including TB as most TB require a swap (thus no heal after the blow)

[Sebazy]

A boost to the potency would be nice
It's not that strong when you take into account that the fairy stops healing

Another thing that would make it good would be stronger boss AA. Too many bosses spend 80% of the fight casting which makes tank heal requirement quite low. Even including TB as most TB require a swap (thus no heal after the blow)

^ This, even allowing some bosses to keep auto attacking through casts would make huge impact.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Honestly, at this point even SCH's fae gauge in PvP is looking more interesting than their PvE counterpart.

[Grimoire-M]

I’m surprised people still complain about Fey Union this much. It’s one of my go-to options for stray mistakes and tank management alike. Embrace is equivalent to Regen, at no cost. It can be cancelled into any Fairy action and like /place helps fix the AI issues people have. Yes, it’s Rouse. It’s also one of the abilities that is going to reap the most benefit from half-AST casting as Dissolve Union won’t be a loss to use anymore, making it even better.

I’m not gonna pretend SCH doesn’t have pet action delay issues, they do. However, Fey Union’s one of the better aspects of SCH’s current kit in spite of that. Sometimes it feels like people here over estimate how good AST/WHM are compared to the tools SCH actually has. Tank Mastery and SE’s fight design is why it feels bad now. I remember running it and Rouse into the ground in Stormblood.