Thread: Consolidated Scholar 4.0 Feedback Thread

Originally Posted by Bonkleberry

I disagree. Sacred Soil is more than worth the stack if it procs a free Succor. If the Tank is doing a large pull or taking massive damage, Sacred Soil will prevent more damage than one Lustrate can heal.

You can never rely on the free Succor cast, so that can't be factored into the relative value of Sacred Soil.

As for Sacred Soil vs. Indomitability/Lustrate, I just tested and at ilvl314, my Lustrate heals for ~11000, and my Indom heals for ~7500 per target. Sacred Soil is 10% mitigation. In order for Sacred Soil to be worth the stack over either of those two, it has to either prevent a death from a single hit, or mitigate more than 110,000 (single target) or 75,000 (per target multi target) damage worth of hits over it's duration. Do you realize how few situations there are in this game that a boss has more than 110,000 ST / 75,000 AoE in unavoidable damage going out within 15 seconds?

Originally Posted by Bonkleberry

I disagree. Sacred Soil is more than worth the stack if it procs a free Succor. If the Tank is doing a large pull or taking massive damage, Sacred Soil will prevent more damage than one Lustrate can heal.
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It's not the case at all that I want to look down on you. You just give very poor reasons and it almost looks like a troll. Your last remark makes absolutely no sense and is such a poor argument for the gimping of DPS ... It may come as a shock to you as well. But posting on a discussion forum, people will evaluate your comments and discuss them. I don't need to ask anyone's permission. Now that this off topic is out of the way, someone has already dealt with your Succor remark. It's clear that Scholar needs a bit of love and I hope they do it sooner rather than later. There are plenty of quality posts out there.

Sacred Soil is NEVER worth using over lustrate or indom. Ever. Its a neat skill but it is not worth the aetherflow cost. A free succor is nice and all..but only 20% chance if I remember correctly? If I wanted to use succor I'd just use it, not waste an aetherflow charge for the chance to use it for free.

There was a reason why sacred soil was barely used in the past beyond the dps of shadow flare. In most multiple mob packs where slow worked, shadow flare offered more mitigation than scared soil would. On single mob or boss fights lustrate and indom would heal for more damage then scared soil would ever mitigate. It just wasn't worth the cost of an atherflow to use it in most situations. The only point where it might of been useful was during a phase change where the whole raid was being damaged and you wanted to use both scared soil and indom. You also cant count on the 20% chance to get a free succor nor is guaranteed you will need that free succor when it comes up. This unreliability and the fact that the effect wasn't buffed makes this an inferior ability, maybe just slight better than dissipation right now.

Patch notes up, not a single scholar buff... Bad job, SE.

Originally Posted by Lurkios

Patch notes up, not a single scholar buff... Bad job, SE.

And they "fixed" Fey Union. Now its even more useless.

Originally Posted by Lurkios

Patch notes up, not a single scholar buff... Bad job, SE.

According to YoshiP job rebalancing is planned to start with 4.05 when Omega savage hits. Right now all they're doing is bug fixes and enmity adjustments.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...80#post4263080

Do they not at least consider fey union going down when the fairy isn't tethered a "bug" or is that just "working as intended" 8/