Scholars used to be awesome; I hope 7.0 goes back to the basics.

[ty_taurus]

So I'm curious, what from HW or SB do people want back? Specifics, I mean.

I started a threat specifically to get at that - for example, do people genuinely want WHM to have to cast Cure 1/Cure 2 on people to generate Lilies...which decrease the CD on Benison by 2/3/6 seconds? Is that what people want back from SB? Surely not... - and see what exactly people want from SB (not "rotations were more fun", no WHAT specific abilities/traits?) and what they might want to keep that we've gotten since in ShB/EW (EW Lilies/Misery? EW Expedience? ShB Temprance?), what they might merge (HW Divine Seal which upgrades to ShB Temperance), etc.

Thread here, but I'm genuinely curious what specifics there: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ld-be-combined...

When people say "I want SB healers back", and then propose a WHM with a healing gauge and new GCD on a CD or say they think WHM should be like BLM with big, slow cast nukes...I'm confused since WHM didn't have those things in SB or HW. So what from SB/HW are people asking for back, specifically. Hence the thread.

Are you being intentionally tone deaf? Are you intentionally ignoring the probably hundreds of times White Mage was called out for being an exception to the rule when someone brings up the strong points of Stormblood, and how literally no one, not a single human soul in the Solar System is advocating for White Mage to return to Stormblood days, just that the general level of job complexity was a happy medium between the more punishing elements of Heavensward and the hyper relaxed elements of Stormblood/Endwalker?

Like, if there was ever a horse that has been so far beaten to death that there's not even an atom remaining of that horse's corpse, that would be it. And yet you're asking this question as if you haven't been an active participant in those discussions for literally two years at this point. Like, did you hit your head and now you have amnesia? I have to wonder if maybe I tripped into a wormhole and gone back in time, because the whiplash I just experienced nearly snapped my neck wondering how that hasn't been made obvious at this point. I'm sorry if that's all harsh-sounding, but literally I've never been so confused on these forums. Am I being Rick Rolled? Is this a weird joke or something? If I had a dollar for the amount of times someone specified that White Mage is not what they were talking about when praising Stormblood, I could pay off my student loans in full.

EDIT: This is exactly how I feel right now.