I joined the game already knowing scholar would be THE class for me. A healer who uses books as their weapon? Usually the book-wielding class in MMOs is the dark sorcerer type who either inflicts massive dots and debuffs, or summons demons/undead, or both. Summoners are sort of in the same vein, but they can branch into a healing class, which I was immediately taken with. This is the job I wanted to main.

I was a little surprised at how healing and dpsing worked in this game though, 'cause I was used to damage constantly going out so you have no choice but to always heal in fights, always refresh your HoTs whenever they fell off the tank, even in dungeons where there's another healer with you. The damage spells you had were purely there to help you through leveling quests. You rarely had time to afford throwing in a damage spell or DoT in party content.

Not so in FFXIV, but I adapted to dpsing as a healer. In a way I enjoy it, and I'm good at it, but I also kinda miss the sort of gameplay where you have to be healing constantly.