Quote Originally Posted by Supersnow845 View Post
If they tried to double down on that dichotomy I seriously hope they try to make SCH’s buff more interesting than a boring disconnected button they press once every 2 minutes they can’t even spread with deployment

AST plays like trash but at least it’s buffs actually feel meaningful, delegating chain would literally change nothing about SCH
Don’t get me wrong, I totally agree about Scholar lol.

I feel like devs have this bizarre vision of Scholar already being a ‘support/buffer’ even though the vast majority is just ‘disguised healing’ rather than actual party support / utility. Like, if asked why Scholar has so little ways to buff the party, they’d go ‘But what about Sacred Soil / Fey Illumination / Whispering Dawn / Protraction / Excogition. Which, I get they technically are buffs, but at the same time they’re also mostly just ‘healing but in buff form’ lol.

I think going forward Scholar could easily fill it’s niche as a ‘support healer’ by actually developing on the idea of it as a utility healer that can support the party. It could differentiate itself from Astrologian by having Deployment spread more buffs than just Adloquium. Plus, where Astrologian’s buffs are more direct (i.e damage up, damage taken down, etc), Scholar’s buffs could be more indirect. Like increasing crit rate (obviously problematic but just for talking’s sake lol), Expedient’s movement speed buff, increasing max HP. * Which again is largely just building on what we have now but without this weird obsession with everyone only being allowed ‘that one’ raid buff at 120s lol. I feel like a lot of classes also have party buffs where it doesn’t make much sense (why is DRG a support lol) but that’s veering on a tangent lol.


* I’d like to say Haste/Fey Wind too but that’s too problematic lol, can’t upset the Black Mages or Monks.