Thread: Consolidated Scholar 4.0 Feedback Thread

Originally Posted by Judge_Xero

It is pretty much the same for all healers. It is quite an adjustment to go from keeping the tank alive with a regen while watching Netflix to actually having to think about healer CD usage.

I wouldn't even say this is the case, at least not more so than it was during Heavensward launch.

The only spike in difficulty I perceived was when tanks didn't know how or when to use CDs on larger pulls or on tank busters; otherwise it was mostly shield and DPS as usual.

Actually, I do think that AoE healing requirements went up a bit overall, but each healer has appropriate tools for dealing with that without issue. It's reactive healers who don't observe patterns who suffer the most since they will find themselves out of MP from panic healing if they don't understand when and why the damage is coming out.

My beef with 4.0 SCH isn't that it's truly weak or can't get the job done, because that's not true; it's that SCH got hit with seemingly unnecessary nerfs (did we really need to increase Adlo MP costs, further nerf faerie healing, and keep shielding potencies the same while the already powerful AST got more shielding potency with only one real trade-off in A.B.'s cost increase?) combined with a forced change in playstyle with Aetherflow MP return cut in half to ham-fistedly force SCH to use Lucid Dreaming a la WHM and AST, who already used their respective versions of that mechanic, and yet another poorly designed capstone ability. Fey Union is powerful enough, but the wonky activation, extremely short tether, and continual drain on the faerie gauge if the tether is broken without being ended by the caster make it needlessly restrictive.

WHM has its own issues from a fun and "does it make sense" perspective, but they at least function more or less the same if not stronger in some important ways.

AST is in the best shape ever with a fluid, fun, effective playstyle that rewards people who enjoy having a lot of actions to use and decisions to make. SCH still has elements of this, but the new parts of their kit (with the exception of Chain Stratagem) don't feel nearly as impactful and don't mesh that well with their existing skills. Hopefully the dev team is looking at the situation as "AST is in a great place; what can or should we do to help WHM and SCH feel like this?"

I don't need the healing buffed, MP is fine when Lucid is used on cooldown, at this point I don't even mind getting skills I don't use on max level anymore.
But please give us some damage back, there is no sense in i.e. Aero III alone being stronger than our dots baned with our most precious recource on multiple targets.