Change SCH Dissipation

[Renathras]

Scholar is themed around tactics and battle planning, not synergy.

Did you not read any of the SCH quests or even their lore blurb?

"In an age long past, when mankind flourished under the radiance of arcane mastery, the island of Vylbrand was home to a city-state called Nym. Though the history of that age tells of countless wars waged with earth-shattering incantations, it was the brilliant strategic maneuvering of Nym's scholars that allowed their mundane army of mariners to throw back would-be conquerors time and again. These learned men and women defended the freedom of their tiny nation with their unique command over spell-weaving faeries, utilizing the creatures' magicks to heal the wounded and bolster the strength of their allies."

(Source: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/jobguide/scholar/ )

It's in the Job tagline. All of the SCH quests have you working with Eos, including her and you both channeling healing magics. The final and capstone SCH quest at level 80, where you cure your first Tonberry, has you and Eos side by side channeling healing magics together. Every part of SCH's lore says "Tactician that works with your Faerie partner". Exactly zero parts say "Eat your Faerie partner for power". Dismiss is effectively the same thing; you're effectively draining/consuming her for power. That's much more of a necromantic or warlock-ish trait, not a SCH one.

Wanting complexity is fine.

Wanting clunk and pretending it's complexity is stupid.

Rather than elevating the other healers to scholar’s level, you want to also kill scholar?

Removing clunk is not going to "kill scholar". And "elevating the other healers to scholar's level"? Come now, that's just a low energy posting. At the very least, AST is already at that level, and arguably has more planning required than SCH, both on a strategic/operational level (CD planning) and on a tactical level (execution with timing, such as Earthly Star or Horoscope or Macrocosmos all having timing elements involved between initial execution and when you need the abilities to go off). So at the very least, AST is on or above SCH's level, and Dissipation or its alteration doesn't change that.

Sage’s entire identity is “easy scholar” so that is a pretty valid option.

No, SGE's entire identity is "heals by doing damage augmented by weaker outright heals than most other healers but a strong mitigation kit with high uptime to smooth damage and make it manageable when planned". Further:

"The nation of Sharlayan is the cradle of knowledge, and the Studium its foremost institution of learning. Yet more so than its incomparable library and formidable assemblage of Archons, this prestigious academy is famed for blending traditionally distinct fields to produce revolutionary new disciplines. Among these, perhaps the most distinguished is an altruistic art which draws upon the wisdom of aetherology, sorcery, and medicine. Dubbed somanoutics, the art seeks to heal and protect by manipulating corporeal aether through the use of nouliths, a flying array of foci. Practitioners are dedicated to the betterment of mankind, and for their wisdom and compassion, eventually came to be known simply as sages."

I don't see "easy scholar" there in the description anywhere. Maybe I'm just missing it. Can you show me where the words "easy scholar" appear in SGE's tagline? I'd like to see where you're seeing it, but...but I don't even see the word "easy" in that description. Or the word "scholar". So maybe you need to reevaluate your position.

Further, if you ever find yourself considering saying "Go play X", that's your mental hint to reevaluate your position and also to not say it.

Or you know you could just think for a second beforehand.

Or, you know, you could just actually read things, not make up things, and also not defend clunk as a form of challenge/skill/complexity/identity?

You really trust SE to delete a skill from a healer and then give us something better in exchange at this point?
Have the last few years taught you nothing?

I mean, they made Misery damage neutral and improved Lilybell, so it's not exactly unheard of.

to AF generating fairy gauge (only synergy remaining in 5.0+).

Agreed with basically all of this post other than this bit. SCH is a mess, but it has some other synergy abilities, which are the things I most like about the Job. Recitation, Deployment Tactics, Emergency Tactics, Fey Illumination, Protraction, and if you can break through the clunk and make meaningful use of it, Dissipation's positive sides (anti-synergy aside) all allow for synergy between abilities. They went the wrong way with Fey Blessing (they should have removed the CD, or stuck a shorter one like 20 sec, but preferably removed, and left the Gauge cost so the Gauge would have a second use and you could stock burst AOE healing that way if you wanted to), but there is some potential there.

There's still some complexity with several of the Healer Jobs - SCH and AST both have a lot of planning and skill expression/ceiling (just not in damage output so much), such as an AST solo healing an Ultimate - but again, clunk is not complexity.

QFT

Hear hear.