Quote Originally Posted by Alisa180 View Post
It cuts the other way too. They can't nerf SCH's damage the obvious way without nerfing SMN's damage as well. So they have to be really careful.
You don't need to worry about that. Potency wise there is no issue, which is proven with Scholar having the lowest DPS requirement in Stone, Sea, (something else beginning with S). So I highly doubt they would ever look into nerfing any Arcanist abilities. The 'problem' lies in the fact that Scholars have good MP management, and more importantly a fairy aiding the main healer while they can DPS.


I say 'problem', because as a Scholar I personally don't really see it as one. It's not Scholar's problem that they are designed to fill an off-healing role so well, and I believe SE sees this as they are not nerfing us, but slowly making Noct. Astrologian better. People need to consider that eventually we will have more healing jobs and we can't always see it as 'make x as good as WHM/SCH combo'. I like that they mentioned in the famitsu thingy that they are going to look to make AST/WHM a more viable pairing, that's the direction they should take instead of bringing out the nerf gun.

For the record, after playing all three healers I don't believe Scholar is overpowered, but I do agree that it's the best of the three current healers. And there's no problem with that, SE can balance as much as they want but one job is always going to be on top.