Quote Originally Posted by Loggos View Post
I'm genuinely confused what irked you so much about me mentioning a point that has been widely discussed by many people who love scholar for years (incl. the OP of this thread which whom I agree in the post just before?). Scholar's contradictory kit is a commonly accepted point of criticism as far as I'm aware. Like, it's not that I say scholar is bad anywhere? On the contrary I want it to be *more* scholar-y so I can use the fairy and its aether stack heals more? Genuinely where does this come from.
Wanting a job I really like to retain its identity or have its identity strengthened vs. having to sacrifice core parts of its kit so I repeatedly press a single button for more EDs is pretty much the opposite of wanting to play sage. I think it would help scholar to set itself apart more from sage because it would allow me to use my *scholar* abilities more often instead of a very simple 100-point damage spell.

I was also genuinely interested in the other person's opinion. If they see this differently than I'll gladly read why.


(With "dps design complement my healing kit" I didn't mean I want to heal while doing damage spells if that's the point of contention here. I just don't want parts of the kit to "fight" against each other the way they do with scholar. I'm not saying anybody has to agree but it's not exactly a controversial or egregious point either I think.)
I main Scholar in Savage/Ultimate and Energy Drain optimization is the biggest reason why myself and other Scholar mains enjoy Scholar. Quite frankly I do not care at all if people don't like the design of Scholar; play something else or ignore the button. I don't want what I enjoy about the job and the thing that lets me spend hundreds of hours to go away because people who don't main the job lose their minds over losing potency, especially when nearly all of these players are not optimizing high end raids to begin with.

Scholar has had Energy Drain for a decade now. How is that not apart of its identity? We have a barrier healer without it and that's Sage. Losing Energy Drain wouldn't set it apart from Sage at all because Sage is able to vomit its Addersgall heals which are clones of Scholar's aetherflow heals, Scholar would just be able to vomit heals like Sage and not have to think at all about how it optimizes its resources. How interesting. It can also just do that now with no downside if you don't care about optimizing! And if you do, why are you complaining about an aspect of optimization? If you don't like that aspect, play the job that does not have that aspect of optimization.

The best part is, you can just use your Aetherflow heals if you want to and should when they're needed! ED contributes less than 5-7% of a SCH's total rDPS at the highest levels of optimization, there's no "sacrifice" of your kit that you're doing at all. Being able to adjust my healing plan tactically when resources aren't needed for healing and use them on something that is always needed is the Scholar job fantasy.

For the "I don't want parts of the kit to fight against each other" part, this is also a part of Scholar; tradeoffs and decision making. This is what makes Scholar fun to play, having to constantly choose what you use because certain things won't be available, and going into anything with a plan while also being able to use your kit effectively. Scholar is the healer with the highest skill ceiling in regards to its total kit, why remove that?