Let's talk Scholar: Changes, Class fantasy and Abilities

[Tobalito]

Y'all have my dearest regards, and I'm truly sorry for making such a peripheral comment, but are threads like this how people cope with the developers not wanting to talk about Scholar?

Anyway, for my contribution:

I like the tradeoff with Dissipation. A scholar should be a tactician, and tacticians have to make decisions. The only problem is how unrewarding it is. When you level other jobs without that kind of compromise you tend to ask yourself what the point of Scholar's clunk is, but if it gave you more buffs and an AOE explosion it would be fine.

It would be one thing if for all that tradeoff Scholar was defacto #1 spot. It simply isn't. You hit the nail on the head and it so apperant when there is a healer with pretty much the same kit but without the funk... what is the point of sacrificing so much, put so much on a co healer.. just to come out even when others do it with no sacrifice? Dissipation is a terrible skill. It does not give a rewarding choice and it's a necessary evil just to come in second anyhow...

[Haptory]

My original concept of integrating Dissipation into other abilities was a little outrage. Seeing as the scholar community is using it for a pure DPS gain I got a new idea.
Scholars use Energy Drain to increase their DPs output and to use up Aetherflow Stacks they don't need, and by doing so you have an overflow on the Faerie Gauge.
So I thought why not recreate both Dissipation and Energi Drain to Lily's Wrath and Wrath "Lily's wrath": your Faerie infliction damage to your foes instead of healing its allies can't use fairy (healing) abilities while in this state.
" "Wrath": a 150-180 potency attack that your fairy can use while under the effect of "Lily's wrath" uses 10 Faerie Gauge each attack (inflicts every 2,5 seconds, toggle ability as Aetherpact).
This way you will only have 3 Aetherflow stacks each 60 seconds + for each time you use Recitation, your Faerie Gauge can but used more efficiently and you will end up roughly with the same DPs output you had with energy drain. Only now your Aetherflow stacks are used in healing and shielding instead of dpsing.
Pro's: it gives more micromanaging to your pet, it keeps the same DPs output (roughly might need more tweaking), Aetherflow stacks will not pile up, Faerie Gauge will have more uses and may not pile up, keeps the same type of skill level as Dissipation for high level players to enjoy.
Does not really change much, but it makes the scholar handle a little differently