Can scholar get a spell or trait called Scan?

[kyuven]

There is nothing wrong wtih BLMs in T11 at all.

But yea, what could Scan possibly do?

I mean the whole having to move around thing and interrupt your casts. Doesn't affect much, but gets annoying.

[Ashkendor]

I mean the whole having to move around thing and interrupt your casts. Doesn't affect much, but gets annoying.

Just stand there and eat the stacks, but prepare for very angry healers. :3

[x-_-ILLUSION-_-x]

Even just more detailed information would be interesting, like showing the monster's hp in numbers rather than just a bar. Displaying their immunities and current status resistance level (so you can tell when it's resistance to something has reset). Maybe if they wanted to go in depth with it, add a bestiary and make it so when you scan a monster it gets added to the list with all the moves it uses with a description of what they do, similar to our own actions.
E.G. Scan Titan (hard):
Hp: ?????/?????
Abilities:
Landslide- Line AoE dealing ??? Potency damage, additional effect: knockback.
Etc.

So you basically want everything handed to you.

There are these things called mechanics, which scan would completely trvialize if you knew exactly what they would be before they even happened. Would sort of make any server/world first a lot less noteworthy.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

why bother with that when people will just use YouTube anyway?

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

I don't know if people just didn't read all of the OP's post or if he added in further ideas for what FFXIV's version of Scan could do after all the posts.

Either way, I must beg the question: did no one read the ideas for Scan suggested by the OP? Made enough sense to me - just a debuff on the enemy that makes them more susceptible to crits by virtue of the party now "knowing weaknesses".

[MilesSaintboroguh]

But by that logic, it would seem very silly that when Scan wears off, the party suddenly "forgets" the weakness. You're better off going by some sort of bleed/viral effect so it would make a bit of sense.

[Zaft]

We could scan their HP. It would be fun to know how much HP each boss has

Those numbers are already available, if you're actually interested.

[Lorielle]

But by that logic, it would seem very silly that when Scan wears off, the party suddenly "forgets" the weakness. You're better off going by some sort of bleed/viral effect so it would make a bit of sense.

They forget because they have other things to worry about than keep track of every single little detail of the monster in front of them. I'd rather worry about the giant mountain coming my way. This is just my train of thought though.

[Hiruke]

I don't know why "it's a classic Scholar ability" is the reasoning here. Other than the oft-repeated "this doesn't make sense for this game", Scholar in FFXIV is, well, NOTHING like previous incarnations. Does it strike you as a master of black magic AND white magic? Or... does it seem like a healer with shields and a faerie?

Oh, sorry. Their original AF is very Scholar-like. That's something, I guess.

[FaileExperiment]

So you basically want everything handed to you.

There are these things called mechanics, which scan would completely trvialize if you knew exactly what they would be before they even happened. Would sort of make any server/world first a lot less noteworthy.

Not really. I don't know about a Scan ability, but a personal bestiary would be amazing. In traditional FF games, all that info is only filled into the bestiary once you've beaten it first, or individual ability descriptions fill in as you encounter them. I don't think having more information about what a boss does in an encounter trivializes anything, rather it's the execution that really matters. It would actually be nice to not have to wonder wtf that ability you just encountered actually does, as opposed to figuring it out via trial and error, and well just plain guessing. Your argument could be applied equally to having the bosses' HP percentage shown, and it's just as silly.

Besides, even if it did trivialize world firsts, I think more people would benefit from having a cool bestiary to browse that it's really a worthy trade-off.