Quote Originally Posted by fulminating View Post
Scholar is themed around tactics and battle planning, not synergy.
Lore-wise SCH is themed around tactics and battle planning.
No tactician would forgo notable advantage and the safety of it's troops for a little of damage. The fact a SCH can't think of anything else that "it's safe, better eat my fairy as it gives me things of which I'll use one" isn't good planning or resource management either.
The base of a good tactic would be to use your assets in a way that earn you more that what you spent.

Gameplay-wise, SCH theme is a mess, but you have synergy and had even more. From dots into bane, accel.aetherflow in SB, to AF generating fairy gauge (only synergy remaining in 5.0+).

Quote Originally Posted by fulminating View Post
Rather than elevating the other healers to scholar’s level, you want to also kill scholar? Sage’s entire identity is “easy scholar” so that is a pretty valid option. Or you know you could just think for a second beforehand.
All healers need to be improved to have a real skill ceiling, but don't act as if SCH still has any identity or complexity.
SGE isn't "easy scholar", it's "another aestetic scholar" improved to be more reactive, and has more potential for complexity that SCH right now.