Scholar is still the only class in the entire game with a single AOE dps skill

[aveyond-dreams]

There is no reason for me to play a Scholar so long as Sage exists. While I have the class levelled passively due to having levelled Summoner, I am effectively boycotting it permanently unless major changes happen.

Edit (in response to the post directly below mine):

The class is a horrifically boring mess of bland abilities and has the honor of having the worst damaging abilities of all the healers. Energy Drain should have stayed gone if it was going to draw upon the same resources as our heals, Dissipation is a relic of Heavensward where they had no idea what to do with neither Scholar nor Summoner since dismissing the pet is not something that should have ever been a thing for Scholar. Whether the pet AI is perfect is irrelevant given how underwhelming the class feels to play unless I'm paired with a tank who has absolutely no idea what they are doing, in which case I'd probably rather bail than carry someone who hasn't grasped the fundamentals of tanking 101.

Scholar may as well not exist to me anymore, let me know whenever they finally get their act together when it comes to this class.