Scholar's Identity Transformation

[the-kuponut]

I think most people are just not liking the direction SE is taking Scholar. I've been playing it from the start and I remember the Scholar moveset was mathmetician/strategist themed while the fairy had the heals/angelic motif. They've been eroding that over the last few expansions and making it such a mismash of lore it feels like it doesn't have a real defined identity anymore with the last bit of Lily being crammed in to fit with what SMN got. My opinion, of course.

According to the EE it's the fairies who bestow the restorative magic to SCHs, Nymians invented the SCH art to aid in their tactics, so healing = angelic/fairy While the SCH attacks still maintain their strategic theme. The new chain strategem and its related new abilities still have that theme.

It makes sense for a healing buff to borrow from the fairy's powerful form. The real problem is that current healer job design lacks DPS skills, you get a DoT, a ST attack, and an AoE. With maybe one additional attack. That wasn't the case before and jobs had way more DPS and debuff tools, which balanced the two themes. That's the real problem, and it's why there's a lot of fairy/angelic abilities now. Causing people to think the theme "shifted". When it's more like the debuff/attacks and healing spells balance that shifted. Few attacks/debuffs but a large amount of buffs/healing abilities.

Of course aesthetics are subjective and I'm not at all saying that people should like it. I'm just saying that angelic/fairy aesthetics were always part of the SCH's identity, that the angel transformation is in line with the SCH aesthetics and lore.