Scholar Please Fix

[deston07]

Sacred soil is scholar's best ability bar none

Sadly yes..
You still have to be under soil to get the benefit, while many of Abyssos attacks require groups to spread further than Soil can reach, for a longer duration than 1 server tick.
There are quite a few non-savage fights that require spreading further than soil can reach.

Many Scholars limit soil usage to save Aetherflow,
for more Energy drain usage.
while
Sage has no reason to really limit Kerachole usage.
7 Addersgall per 2 min, giving 4 usages of Kerachole + 3 more Addersgall for what ever you like every 2 min.
Why would sage want to hold on to addersgall? There is almost no punishment for over use of kerachole.
Big Hit? Physis II + Kerachole generally solves it.
The consistent 10% mit + HOT make both heals life significantly easier.

Savage and Ultimate are practically the only content that require Scholars to actually know how to resource manage. so most scholars do not know how to resource manage.

Comparing the 2min mitigation+healboost Fey Illumination to 'its a regen' Physis II

(SCH) Fey Illumination - (120 CD) Increases healing magic potency of all nearby party members by 10%, while reducing magic damage taken by all nearby party members by 5%
(Only Magic Healing / Mitigation)

(Sage) Physis II - (60 CD) Gradually restores own HP and the HP of all nearby party members. Cure Potency: 130
Additional Effect: Increases HP recovered by healing actions by 10%
(works for magic and physical actions)

Expedient is more comparable to Holos than Fey Illumination.

[fulminating]

Many Scholars limit soil usage to save Aetherflow, for more Energy drain usage.

Many Dark knights and gunbreakers don't mitigate during their burst because they're out of weave slots. I don't really see a solid argument for change based around people deliberately shooting themselves in the feet.

The counterpart to fey illumination is very probably holos, particularly considering that the shield was stapled on. On 6.0's launch they were both 120s CD 10% mit, with the slight difference that fey illumination gave a healing boost at the cost of not affecting those uncommon physical raidwides. I think that would be dominion 1 and dominion 2 ? - nothing else springs to mind.