Veteran opinions on Scholar?

[Deceptus]

My main problem with Scholar is that their Capstone abilities actively conflict with each other and no other job (perhaps save SMN) has that restriction. Other jobs, (including Summoner) build up their resources and have moments of pure power. SCH's build them up and then they Fizzle. Come Endwalker the ONLY use for their Fairy Gauge will be Fey Union.

Dissipation completely goes against the base lore of the job. You are supposed to work WITH your fairy not send them away for power. While dissipation is activated you can't gain any fairy stacks and are locked out of ALL of your fairy utility and the bonus healing only affects THREE buttons. Physic, Adlo, and Succor. That's it. You lose something like 3K potency worth of Embrace and all other utility for 3 Aetherflow stacks, a terrible trade.

Fey Union is nothing more than a directed, Roused regen on a specific target. Which didn't need to exist because we USED to be able to target Eos/Selene to whomever we needed.

Seraph is clunky, the AI is STILL bad after years.

But remember, the Devs couldn't find any way to improve Scholar. Despite literal hundreds of pages of feedback.

Some people say Scholars were absolutely overpowered for ARR and HW (They simply had a very well designed kit IMHO), but that was 6 years ago and they shouldn't be still punished for something the developers put into place.

A bigger problem? The fact that SE wants to have Barrier (shield) healers / and Pure (regen) healers but won't commit to either.

SCH's have 3 Regens (if you count the fairy) and the Pure healers have substantial shielding capability (WHM gets 2 free charges of Benison in EW).