Newbie trying at healing with Scholar

[Ghishlain]

@Ghishlain:
Could you explain what a mouse-over macro is please?
And why do you wait 1 second in the first macro when the cooldown of "Embrace" are 3 seconds?
Isn't it better to wait 3 seconds then recast "Embrace"?


I don't quite understand what the 2nd macro does. I would be thankful if you could explain that to me too.

The second macro I listed is actually an example of a moues over macro. The syntax for it is <mo> and in the case of the macro I provided automatically casts Embrace on the target my mouse is on (not necessarily targeting). The mouse-over macro works by just hovering the mouse either over the player or their name on the party list and it'll cast on that person.

I use a wait.1 because I find that if the Fairy is in the middle of something (say casting another Embrace) and it's 2 seconds before it's off GCD, then you're effectively waiting 5 seconds until the next Embrace cast if you use a wait.3. I know some players prefer wait.3 and some prefer wait.2 - I'm just of preference to prefer wait.1. The higher waits means you can fit more Embraces before the next time you need to enable the macro but I'm okay with what I have right now.

Pick what's suitable for you~

[VermilionHaru]

Good evening

Meanwhile I'm lvl 34, and I practiced only in dungeons.
Recently I did Brayflox, and some run was very good but a few weren't.
It was that one run, that was a bit critical at the fight with the end boss.
The Tank rarely pull the dragon out of the poisonous AoE and we had 2 melee dps class.
Since I'm still lvl 34 I only have the AoE regen buff of Eos. At the beginning I could still dps carefree, since Eos spammed "Embrace" on the Tank (Macros).
But somewhere around 50% the dragon keeps shooting AoE and hits everyone (me and Eos included).
Everyone had a hard time there. We had low HP and I could only heal one party member at a time.
I tried to reduce the incoming dmg via "Virus" and gave the Tank a mitigation buff.
Even with Eos, the Tank took too much dmg.
In the end, we made it without a member dying. But still... what should I have done?
Should I've used "Adloqium" on every party member then using "Physick"?


Thank you in advance

Team comp: DRK, SCH, MNK, NIN

[Rawrz]

Scholar changes at 50 when you get lustrate and again when you get indom.

Specifically, you could use Selene to cleanse people with fey caress once a minute with its aoe cleanse since you don't have access to leeches yet (esuna.) I feel that your issue was probably poor placement of the boss, in combination with party members standing in puddles. This is exacerbated by having 3 members in melee range. :[ If there are 2 Melee dps, they should try to stand to the same flank and move once the dragon has aoed onto The other flank. Eye for an Eye has a chance to place a debuff on attacking enemies to reduce damage by 10%, this might help keep your tank healthier. Just keep leveling, everything changes in one way or another. :]

[Ghishlain]

The final boss of Brayflox can be problematic on SCH since you don't have a lot of the same tools that WHM / AST would have at the same levels - the big tool being Esuna for this particular boss since the poison stacks up higher and higer. What Rawr said above regarding Selene is a good work around in these kinds of scenarios though keep in mind that Fey Carress is on a one minute cooldown so you have to manage it appropriately. If you feel comfortable with fairy management you can also split healing duties with your Fairy and yourself so you're healing one target while the fairy is healing another, allowing for more even distribution of cures among your party members. This is useful to learn overall since this won't be the only time you'll most likely need to split your healing up.

If you feel a little daring it is possible to negate the application of Poison if you keep Adlo up on players but this is also quite MP intensive. Getting to 35 will also be useful since you get Succor which is you only AoE heal as a SCH until Indomitability at 52 and allow you to handle more people at once.

[Kamui_Argent]

Adlo will always be stronger than Stoneskin if the SCH is at an equivalent level and gear as the target. There are also very very few tankbusters that will give you enough time to adlo and stoneskin. I agree that Blizzard 2 is a better choice as it is a DPS increase on 2+ mobs over Ruin/Ruin2, and an increase in 4+ mobs over Broil. In cases of trials: HM trials are super easy and even Succor pre pull is enough for that initial mitigation, and EX trials you can do Adlo + Emergency Tactics if party wide damage is going out near the beginning of the fight. Or have the AST do Noct Sect initially and Asp Helios the party then switch back before drawing enmity.