Teach me how to SCH

[LazyMemories]

My WHM is almost fully myth so it's time for me so start working on another sub.
I know SCH is all about preventing damage.
But I don't really get how SCH work with there moves. Like for and Eye for an Eye should I cast that for only on bosses.
Succor I've seen a lot which is a barrier for everyone
Aqua is only a barrier for one person
But what are the other moves for a SCH and how should I use them? Any Cross Class skills I should have besides swiftcast? I already have that skill so I don't need to worry
But like the title says Teach me how to SCH.
Edit: Also if you guys could Teach me how to macro
When I go to the macro thing it says
Name... Which as what do I want to call the macro
But for the other part do I type
/macroicon Physick
/ac Phisick <t>
/pac Embrace <t>
Do I type all of that in one macro?
Also can you only use macro is dungeons, raids, ect?

[veg]

I use stoneskin as a sch. A little extra protection. seem to rotate aldo and psykick for the most part and when im lazy spam succor. Lazy sch reporting for duty.

[viion]

Only advice i can give is remember you don't have the focus healing power as WHM (unless you obey EOS and focus her heals), but you have pretty much infinite MP so you can spam heal a lot more. Im sure some pro healers have it nailed though, our FC healer can solo heal a lot on his SCH, i find it pretty impressive haha. Sometimes Selena is better in some cases, for example our SCH uses selena all the time in coils for the speed buffs as healing is not an issue.

[Muzy]

Micro-managing the pet helps a fair bit, Adloquium is your mostly used heal, when it crits it puts a shield up for double the amount healed, otherwise it's just the amount healed.

Succor is best used when you know an AoE is coming up that can't be avoided, pair it with sacred soil if at all possible(unlike Adloquium it always shields for the amount healed).

As far as Eye for an Eye goes, it's honestly best used on trash, it's decent on bosses, but it shines on trash due to it being a proc and putting a debuff on anything hitting, in other words... Use it on cooldown on bosses, save it for large trash packs(Yay, WP speed runs) if not on a boss.

Physick is basically Cure, but mostly used to bring someone up to full health after using Adlo for the shield.

Sacred Shield is this nice little bubble you put on the ground that people can stand in and take less damage while it's up, use at your discretion(remember, it uses an Aetherflow stack...)

Lustrate is fucking amazing, I use it a fair bit, mostly to blast someone up, or to quickly top someone off, it also uses an Aetherflow stack.

Ressurection, Raise, learned later, always able to be used in battle.

Leeches, same as Esuna, but learned a hell of a lot later.

Virus, yay, boss does less damage.

Choosing which pet to use is up to you, they both cast embrace so little healing lost depending, Eos's Whispering Dawn and Fey Illumination are nice in case of emergency though.

[RaijinkenXIII]

I'd also like to learn scholar so I can expand my availability for PUGs so any information shared would be great. What are the differences between the two pets anyhow?

[AdvancedWind]

I'd also like to learn scholar so I can expand my availability for PUGs so any information shared would be great. What are the differences between the two pets anyhow?

Selene uses skill speed buffs on the party. It's good for any farmed content that you know you won't be needing stronger heals, it's good for any time you just want to deal more damage and it's the fairy to use on any content that's a strict DPS check (Turn 4, Ultima, etc).
Eos has a defense buff, an AoE regen and a healing potency buff. Need more healing? Eos. Constant AoE damage? Eos. Damage spikes at some point of the fight? Eos. That said, she requires good micromanaging to use her decently, otherwise she will just blow all your cooldowns when the party is full life.

[AdvancedWind]

Number 1 secret to being a scholar: When the tank dies, blame the White Mage.

[veg]

Number 1 secret to being a scholar: When the tank dies, blame the White Mage.

i giggled recently.

[Darksword]

As a career SCH, allow me:

Generally a SCH is going to use 3 hotbar sets. One with all your heals and buffs, one with pet commands, and one with damage spells and self-use items like Hi Elixirs and Spine Drops.

SCH is much more versatile as a healer than WHM is (and I like WHM). The name of the game is to use your shieldcures like Adloquium and Succor to cover the party for a second while you put up DoTs on the enemies. During this phase your Fairy can handle any minor heals that go through the shields. Once your DoTs are up, the enemies are taking damage while you go back to healing. Rinse, Repeat.


How a SCH deals with mobs:

Fairy is ALWAYS on Obey > Steady. This lets her cast her heal on her own, but also lets you command her special moves at will.
>Adlo the tank
>Tank pulls and AOEs
>Succor, Rouse
>Shadowflare, Bio II, Bio, Miasma, Bane
>Physic and Adlo tank, top everyone up.
>Reapply DoTs or cast Ruin depending on how many mobs are left. Aetherflow as necessary.
>Repeat.

On bosses is where things get a little rough for SCH. We make murdermeat out of trash mobs, but we only have one "big" cure spell (Lustrate), and we can only use it 3 times per minute. We also don't get it until level 50. Our other abilities are little better than Cure I from WHM. Most boss fights are going to boil down to:

>Adlo the tank and Succor everyone else.
>[Place] Fairy somewhere convenient within reach of everyone.
>Apply DoTs to the boss on the pull, but depending on the team you may not have the chance to reapply them. Remember that you're a healer first.
>If someone other than the tank is taking minor damage (>75%HP remains), let the Fairy handle them unless they actively have hate from something.
>When the tank takes damage, cast Adlo and then Physic. The first heals a bit and then shields them while Physic goes off to heal more as the shield prevents their HP from dropping further. This one-two punch is our equivalent to Cure II.
>For minor AOE damage to the party, cast Succor. and let your Fairy top everyone up. For major AOE damage, precast Sacred Soil (a barrier than totally nullifies 10% of all incoming damage in a fixed AOE) while using Rouse and commanding your Fairy to use Fey Illumination and then Whispering Dawn. Fey grants you and the fairy both a 20% healing power buff. THEN you use Succor and the Fairy uses Whispering Dawn, which is an AOE regen that you just boosted by 60% with Rouse and Fey. That can fill the whole party up from near death in just moment. Pulling off this combo of moves while everyone is in the double digits and not letting anyone die is one of the key tests of a SCHs skill.
>If the tank or someone else is getting sledgehammered and is about to die, use Lustrate. This skill uses up your Aetherflow stacks, but each use recovers 25% of the targets max HP, it is instant, and has virtually no cooldown. You can take the tank from 25% to full in less than one second. Lustrate is also good if you're curingbombing the tank and someone else suddenly takes a big hit. You can use a Lustrate to heal them instantly (and let the Fairy top them off) without having to wait for a GCD to get back on the tank. Same too if someone like a DD is tanking an add and you're dodging AOEs and can't wait for cast time for a regular heal.
>If you're using SCH properly you're going to be burning some MP. Don't be afraid to use Energy Drain, especially on bosses. On HM Garuda I always burn by first stack of Aetherflow on ED after the first phase and all the Succoring/Physicing/DoTing that goes on. That makes sure that I'm at full MP by the time the sisters appear.
>Sometimes Curebombing is the only way to go. Healers naturally hate to do this because it burns tons of MP and generates lots of hate, but there are times when planting yourself in one spot and wearing the finish off your Succor button is the only way to get through a rough spot. Our heal potency is weak, so at the worst of moments you may have to make it up with volume.
>You NEED Swiftcast, which you probably already have. Its for more than Raise though. Swiftcast > Shadowflare is great for trash and Swiftcast > Succor > Succor is powerful for AOEs. If the tank is getting creamed and you're behind on your rotation, Swiftcast > Adlo > Lustrate to get caught up.
>Virus reduces all the boss's stats by 15% for 15 seconds. Use it right before BIG damage or big AOEs. Right before HM Titan Stomps is probably the perfect moment, it can knock almost 80 damage off each Tumult.
>Eye for an Eye is best right at the start of large trash pulls. Like that one hallway in Haukke HM where you get like 6 mobs linking. What E4E does it puts a status on the targeted player, and every enemy that hits him in the next few seconds has a CHANCE to get stuck with a debuff that drops their damage by 10%. The more mobs hitting him at once, the more powerful its effect because more of them can trigger it. Also good for bosses with lots of tanked adds. Drop it on the OT and keep them alive a little longer.
>Try to use Shadow Flare a lot. The damage it does is weak, but it causes a Slow effect on any mobs in the effect area that can prevent a lot of damage. Its active mitigation, and probly my favorite spell.
>If a bunch of adds are on you, use Miasma II. Its am instant, circular AOE around you and causes Heavy, letting you run away from the mobs so the DDs can handle them.

And always remember: "When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Rouse Their Fairies."

[alhandra]

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as a career scholar myself i was going to chime in with an informative post like this. but this person is pretty much spot on and i dont really see much more to contribute.