Quote Originally Posted by gioroggia View Post

Scholar, on the other hand, can sometimes deal even more damage than summoners. But since 95% of it comes from a slow-damaging AOE dot, it just gets healed off and is not nearly as impactful as summoner. It would be a different matter entirely if the every job didn't have infinite instant heal capacity (recuperate + potion). But as it is, the AOE dot doesn't really "wear out" the enemy team as it's supposed to. People heal off and when MP gets slow they just pot it back.
Not to mention Scholars have to put themselves at risk to get a good spread with their DOT a lot of times. Summoners can just sit back and cast and save their rush-down combo for enemies that dive in or stragglers that get left behind when the enemy team breaks.