Quote Originally Posted by Mezzoforte View Post
Totally missing the point, but that isn't surprising. The problems elsewhere in the kit are unrelated and their own issues. However, if you need a place to complain I am here to listen! This was very specifically about the issue of the skills presentation and hype for it in comparison to others. Scholars lacks that fun flashy and thematic edge other classes have. If you want to dig into the mechanics then that is entirely separate, and frankly your anger due to that is preventing you from having something enjoyably flavorful. The majority of the people who play don't even care about a lot of the very fine details of the class.
Not exactly, it's just not very useful.

If you need the speed boost you probably don't need the mitigation; and if you need the mitigation then you probably don't need the speed boost.

It's a dual-purpose skill, which would be interesting if the utility on either side wasn't so marginal