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

[Connor]

I’d like them to reinforce Scholar’s support/utility to differentiate it from Sage. Return skills like Eye for an Eye, Virus, Fey Wind and Caress for Selene, give Selene that short duration damage buff Alphinaud makes his Carbuncle use as an Academician. Make Chain Stratagem cost Aetherflow but with a shorter cooldown or create a new skill that increases targets crit rate by 3% as a support Aetherflow dump so our entire play style isn’t completely dominated by Energy Drain. Giving it support skills that are more versatile / tactical in usage would still allow it to act as a support without becoming an Astrologian clone:

I think that if Scholar got a new DoT spell it should have an additional effect like reducing damage dealt by the target. To be honest, I also also think it’s maybe a little unrealistic to expect Scholars to be able to cast Bio I, Bio II, Biolysis, Miasma and Miasma II, each with its own individual uptime, considering that’s more than double the amount of DoTs the games only remaining DoT DPS class has. And as I said at the start of my post we already have a ‘ffxiv-style-dps-healer’, so it seems pointless to try and push Scholar down the same road which would pretty much require a total rework to accommodate returning all the old Arcanist skills (otherwise it would have 2X as many abilities as any other job and people are still complaining about button bloat in EW as it is).

One idea I thought would be cool for a new dps ability would be a shield that explodes on breaking, dealing damage to nearby targets. It could have no upfront healing so it doesn’t replace Adloquium, and would need a fairly high potency to accommodate requiring a gcd to set up. But I just think something like that would be a nice way to accommodate a wider variety of Scholar players, by tying dps and support together, which isn’t something any other healer currently does (Sage arguably but that’s direct healing).

[RinaShinomiya]

I’d like them to reinforce Scholar’s support/utility to differentiate it from Sage. Return skills like Eye for an Eye, Virus, Fey Wind and Caress for Selene, give Selene that short duration damage buff Alphinaud makes his Carbuncle use as an Academician. Make Chain Stratagem cost Aetherflow but with a shorter cooldown or create a new skill that increases targets crit rate by 3% as a support Aetherflow dump so our entire play style isn’t completely dominated by Energy Drain. Giving it support skills that are more versatile / tactical in usage would still allow it to act as a support without becoming an Astrologian clone:

I think that if Scholar got a new DoT spell it should have an additional effect like reducing damage dealt by the target. To be honest, I also also think it’s maybe a little unrealistic to expect Scholars to be able to cast Bio I, Bio II, Biolysis, Miasma and Miasma II, each with its own individual uptime, considering that’s more than double the amount of DoTs the games only remaining DoT DPS class has. And as I said at the start of my post we already have a ‘ffxiv-style-dps-healer’, so it seems pointless to try and push Scholar down the same road which would pretty much require a total rework to accommodate returning all the old Arcanist skills (otherwise it would have 2X as many abilities as any other job and people are still complaining about button bloat in EW as it is).

One idea I thought would be cool for a new dps ability would be a shield that explodes on breaking, dealing damage to nearby targets. It could have no upfront healing so it doesn’t replace Adloquium, and would need a fairly high potency to accommodate requiring a gcd to set up. But I just think something like that would be a nice way to accommodate a wider variety of Scholar players, by tying dps and support together, which isn’t something any other healer currently does (Sage arguably but that’s direct healing).

I think that in terms of GCD's, DPS skills that interact with Healing or Healing skills that interact with DPS are the way to go. That's why i liked the lilies on WHM anyway.