Scholar Sucks

[RaionKansen]

SCH is just a job that has higher highs and lower lows than SGE you just have to understand how it works

First of all of I'm taking your response with a very small grain of salt because of your signature.

I liked scholar basically until Holos was buffed and I started playing sage. There's really no reason to play it at this point. I'm very aware how it works and I hate how much you have to operate at a potency loss more often to be an effective healer in high end content where mitigation is important

Dissipation would be a much better ability if it was 10s long on a 60s CD vs 30s every 180s that you can't turn off.
The skill has aged horribly with how the game plays today.
You basically have to gcd heal at a potency loss for 30s if your aetherflow abilities can't cover the healing. Something no other healer in the game is punished with.

Ruin II shouldn't always be a loss when scholar gets nothing out of his healing and sage does. At least make the DoT or something have a proc change to upgrade Ruin II so that it's neutral with Broil IV

Excog is hasn't been great for a long time. High end content is so dependent on having party mitigation going and everyone being topped up. Taurochole is going to save someone more times than Excog ever will in the current state of the game unless you have any issues with a tank dying to autos after a buster.

I would not say scholar dominates in mitigation by any degree because it has to spend more gcds to operate all of it at a potency loss where sage doesn't.