Things currently wrong with frontlines that the community would like to see fixed

[Kyani]

Anyways, RE: Astrologian vs Scholar -

The problem with your post is that healers are essentially tanks in Frontlines, so which ever one has the best ability to fulfill their specific role (an excellent tank and healer combo) is the one that would widely be considered the best

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Besides that, the argument that "AST can't heal as well as the other two" simply isn't using it correctly.

Okay, coming back to you as a Scholar main:

- Lustrate is the best PvP heal, bar none - it's not even particularly close (Have you ever tried pressing it?) It's as much effective healing as a big heal , except Scholar can hold up to 9 of them before getting into a fight.. and it's off the GCD, so you can stack it with Adlo to outmuscle even Synastry'd Benefic IIs. It's a ridiculous amount of healing, while simiultaneously being more flexible/granular than WHM or AST's equivalents.

- As far as AoE, Indomitability is an instant, OGCD Medica, which can be similarly woven into your AoE healing. Indom is a fantastic amount of raw healing if your team's close enough to make good use of it, and synergizes well with the very powerful Roused Whispering Dawn (which is basically an AoE Regen).

- Adlo is a tiny bit worse than Noct Benefic in a stand-and-cast engagement, but significantly better than anything else you could be spending a GCD on thanks to Emergency Tactics turning it into Actual Cure II if necessary. Swift Adlo -> Lustrate -> Lustrate is a more flexible version of Noct Benefic -> Essential Dignity in 99% of scenarios as well.

- With Field Commander gear, Scholar can actually do a relevant amount of DPS. Energy Drain + Ruin II do about 700 damage combined, which isn't amazing, but it's all either instant or OGCD (noticing a pattern?) "free" extra damage to secure burst on a healer or high/fever.

- Aura Blast is really good. This one shouldn't need an explanation, it's the best ability of its kind for clearing people off of a node-ledge.