future abilities

[Jonnycbad]

Surecast:- currently useless, never used, if interrupts could be a problem most players will just swiftcast instead.
One small change. allow casters to move during there next spell cast without interruption. would make that ability much more usefull. would be usefull for things like flares and raises with there long spell casts when swift is on cooldown.

Problem with this is, you use Surecast and begin casting a very long spell, like Stoneskin II, or Raise, but then shit hits the fan and you need to cancel the ability to cast a Cure II because the other healer died -- but crap, you can't interrupt it by running because you just used Surecast, now you are committed to finishing the cast which could be very dangerous.

[Dzian]

Problem with this is, you use Surecast and begin casting a very long spell, like Stoneskin II, or Raise, but then shit hits the fan and you need to cancel the ability to cast a Cure II because the other healer died -- but crap, you can't interrupt it by running because you just used Surecast, now you are committed to finishing the cast which could be very dangerous.

hmmm could still make jump interrupt I guess. but allow basic movement to go uninterrupted.

[JackFross]

Problem with this is, you use Surecast and begin casting a very long spell, like Stoneskin II, or Raise, but then shit hits the fan and you need to cancel the ability to cast a Cure II because the other healer died -- but crap, you can't interrupt it by running because you just used Surecast, now you are committed to finishing the cast which could be very dangerous.

Escape / triangle cancels your cast, though. Movement is not the only way to end it.

I do think new skills to replace old skills would be the way to go - WHM got off nice because A1 and S2 were essentially outmoded (A1 is just an instant spell for use with ogcds now, and S2 is straight beaten by S3) and same for SCH with Broil. BRD got a similar-ish treatment via Iron Jaws.

I would, however, feel incredibly cheated as a Dragoon if three of my five new skills only served to replace old ones. Like cool, okay, no more Full Thrust, but ehhh? Would be really shitty unless every Job got that sort of treatment, especially after FaC/WT this expac.

I would be more expecting/hoping for just straight up new skills and better hotbar management. Give me a combo button that allows me to stack 3 skills in one slot, cycling through them in order as they activate/proc one another.

[Anienai]

Scholar ability:

Selene can mimic another player for 20 sec with a 120 sec CD.


Astrologian ability:

Predict an enemies next 5 moves for 15 sec with a 180 sec CD.


White mage ability:

I can't think of an ability that will cure a player of "BORING WHM" syndrome.
Sorry.

[Kabzy]

Scholar ability:

Selene can mimic another player for 20 sec with a 120 sec CD.

-Use on a MCH for their opener-

Wow that would be so disgustingly OP, I love it. xD

I hope that they focus on SCHs DPS side if they do ever give us some more traits. As of 3.0, our healing toolkit is amazing but it would be nice for the DPS side to be spiced up a little. Not saying we necessarily need more damage output, just more stuff to play around with. It's no surprise to anyone that SCHs stay in Cleric for the majority of a fight, so it's kind of justified adding something to their DPS.

[Vulcwen]

Some ideas here for scholar. I think going with 1 new skill and 4 traits would be the way to go, so:
62: Increases the potency of Broil to 200 (185 if the trait at 68 doesn't affect Aero, but then there should just be a blank all-spells damage buff instead), and the potency of Ruin and Ruin II to 100.
64: Aether Drain (90s cd): AoE damage with a potency of 165 around the target (25y range, 8y radius). You get a stack of Drained Aether for each enemy hit (max 5), which increases the duration of several skills (everything but Galvanize should be affected, if possible it should also work on Obey pet skills).
66: Adds a +3% incoming damage debuff to Ruin, 10s duration. This debuff is spread by Bane.
68: Increases the potency of all DoTs by 5.
70: Adds a HoT effect to Sacred Soil

I know adding the HoT is a bit homogenization, but I think the fact a scholar needs to choose between soil and Shadow Flare makes it interesting to give soil more value for general usage. The debuff on Ruin and Aether Drain should add some dynamics to dps, and Aether Drain should also have it's uses for healing.

[DarkmoonVael]

Phoenix trance for SCH.........

[samkitwood]

Phoenix trance for SCH.........

with fairy wings too?

[nexas506]

I know i already said we only need traits, but a move for ast to reverse their cards and use the opposite effect on enemies would be grand.

[TinyMonster]

I know i already said we only need traits, but a move for ast to reverse their cards and use the opposite effect on enemies would be grand.

I agree we need more traits instead but I do approve of this skill!