It's time to kill the argument that DPS abilities keep healers from healing.

[inhaledcorn]

It's pretty unfortunate how much this list lowered between expansions, especially with the fairies no longer being unique.

I didn't actually know that there used to be a freaking Blizzard II option for Scholar though; that's pretty wacky. Art of War is definitely more unique now in terms of job identity for that one particular type of attack, but it was pretty amusing to see that the class had some spells in common with Black Mage of all things.

Blizzard II used to be part of the Cross Class system since SCH took actions from Tham and Conjurer.

And, Art of War really isn't that unique. It's just recolored Aura Blast from PvP. StB SCH was allowed to have Miasma II because the Cross Role system broke SCH in a bad way when it came to AoE filler. But, when we started using it as a DPS gain to weave, oooooh no, SE couldn't have that.

Art of War is 200% a downgrade from the things we've had in the past.

[Shurrikhan]

Art of War is 200% a downgrade from the things we've had in the past.

New player: Oh, it's not a DoT anymore! We can spam our AoE! Hurray!
Actual SCHs: ...So, we just lost our weave space, downtime in which to ready Bane (for which reason we also lost Bane... and most of our DoTs), and a more powerful ppgcd AoE, all so we can now be obliged to slap the floor repeatedly, with no contested priorities for focus damage or healing pace? ...Hurray?

[inhaledcorn]

New player: Oh, it's not a DoT anymore! We can spam our AoE! Hurray!
Actual SCHs: ...So, we just lost our weave space, downtime in which to ready Bane (for which reason we also lost Bane... and most of our DoTs), and a more powerful ppgcd AoE, all so we can now be obliged to slap the floor repeatedly, with no contested priorities for focus damage or healing pace? ...Hurray?

Every time I smash AoW, I feel like I'm playing in a puddle.

T-T

[Shurrikhan]

Every time I smash AoW, I feel like I'm playing in a puddle.

T-T

Did slapping it at least teach you anything about martial arts?

[inhaledcorn]

Did slapping it at least teach you anything about martial arts?

It only taught me I feel as lame as everyone thinks I look in my AF gear. . -.

Can I have Xande's version, please? It actually feels powerful.

[MsTanya]

Did slapping it at least teach you anything about martial arts?

I think SE introduced it as a kind of inside joke to tell scholars to pound sand anytime they ask for qol or buffs. Or so that's how I've been seeing it xD.