Tips for a first time Scholar?

[VanilleFang]

I don't find Stoneskin at all useful on my SCH bar. In any situation where you really need Stoneskin, you will likely have a WHM to do it better, so I have Aero instead.

Wait.. You have Aero instead of Stoneskin? My brother who uses SCH has both. What do you have as your cross classes? Protect, Aero, Swiftcast, Surecast, and Cleric Stance? Surecast is far more situational than Stoneskin, as is Blizzard II... And if you think about Speed runs in dungeons a SS + Adlo before a pull is pretty nice. Stoneskin is a good spell if you are in light party and solo content. Much more so than any other cross class spell they can pick instead.

I'm pretty sure everyone will tell you to at least have Protect, Aero, Cleric Stance, and Swiftcast as just the basics on a SCH. The last space, imo, is best spent on Stoneskin. Protect is pretty useless outside light party/solo content too (more so than SS even) so I could understand that being replaced with Surecast.