Ideas to make the Scholar more unique...PLEASE READ

[Vortok]

Aetherflow and Energy Drain are Arcanist abilities, which impact Summoner (who uses Aetherflow for Fester and Bane on a regular basis - longer cooldown on Aetherflow would directly nerf them). The game doesn't really have anything that modifies abilities just because of your job (closest is Warrior, which just builds Wrath stacks while in defiance from some abilities, doesn't actually change the abilities themselves) and traits are at the class level, not job.

Part of the reason (at least as I see it) why SCH have better MP management is we often have to waste MP. Casting Succor before an aoe when everyone is at full health wastes half the spell, but you do it anyway. Ditto for Adloquiem before a big hit where you're using it for the shield even if they're full health. Nevermind if you find yourself in a situation where the party needs to be healed up, you don't have a WHM/Whispering Dawn available, and you end up spamming Succor and wasting the shield portion repeatedly.

Changing the MP cost of Adlo/Succor (already slightly more expensive than Cure II/Medica) or even Physick would also adjust how MP efficient Scholars are without messing with Summoner all that much.