Thread: Feedback on 4.05 Scholar

Someone suggested that Sacred Soil be removed from the Aetherflow ability usage and just be a oGCD, which I'd honestly would be fine with as the skill really is only used in Raids and freeing it up for more liberal use would grant SCH some extra tools to use for their everyday ordeals without hurting their ability to heal effectively since Aetherflow abilities are so important to their healing now.

Selene needs a lot of help honestly. Increasing Fey Wind to 5% would be a good start but the real problem is Silent Dusk. It honestly needs to go in favor of ANYTHING else; Hell, a nice little burst heal with a moderate cooldown on it would at least make it mildly useful to have on occasion. I'm fine with the AoE purge on her since, while it does feel of limited use, there has been precedence for it's use in the past and I'd be shocked if SE didn't add at least 1 fight that could make it relevant again.

Dissipation and Fey Union need to be sorted out because they're in direct conflict with one another. Dissipation needs to grant a free fairy summon on ending, improve Aetherflow heals as well as standard heals and Fey Union needs to just be able to build, even when no fairy is present.

Honestly, the most confusing change to SCH as of SB was the increase in cost to Adlo and Succor; it literally makes no sense to me whatsoever to increase the cost of either of these abilities considering that AST shields are on par with them and are instant cast. Would a small potency buff to these skills be too much to ask for, considering their cost and that SCH really could use a tad bit more love in their healing toolkit that ISN'T tied down to Aetherflow stack usage as the pool of skills that require stacks is ever increasing and competing with one another. Either that or making Emergency Tactics reduce the cost by half.

The main problem with the AoE Purge from Selene is that other healers don't have a similar mechanic so making a fight where this is necessary leaves everyone playing WHM and AST with an insurmountable hurdle midfight. Luckily DPS can remove a few statuses now but I highly doubt that particular Fairy skill will ever have a shining moment to keep the skill ceiling from being too high for unprepared groups.

Aside from Silent Dusk, I think Selene is fine. Fey Caress is a free Esuna every 60s and a great "oh shit" button when multiple people get smacked with cleansable debuffs. Fey Wind doesn't need a buff as long as Silent Dusk gets a usable effect for end-game content.

A simple change for Silent Dusk would be to keep the silence effect, but also add "Lowers target's magic damage dealt by 5%" for 10s. Eos has a 20% magic defense party buff every 120s, and now Selene has a 5% magic damage down debuff every 40s.

Originally Posted by MeliaAntiqua

Going back to Fey Union for a bit. My biggest complaint about this skill after the QoL changes is still the fact that it does not scale with any buffs and there a so many out there. Using Fey Union on a Warrior in Defiance who uses Conva and has a Mantra on him is just a waste. You could also just Embrace him for a similar result that does not limit the faeries actions and does not cost any gauge. There is still a lot of finetuning left before Fey Union is skill that I want to use frequently because right now I still cant be bothered with all the thinking required that goes into the usage of a skill that just heals a single target. Even other faerie skills like Whispering Dawn scale with buffs so there is no reason why Fey Union should not.

I *THINK* fey union is buffed by fey illumination, did a little testing earlier with it and ticks seemed much higher if I popped illumination first.
Although I was disappointed to find it was not buffed at all by rouse and I think it really should be.

It's also nice you can turn it off freely to conserve fairy guage. but it sucks that if you die the fairy guage is completely reset. especially given the time it takes to build it back up...

Originally Posted by Dzian

I *THINK* fey union is buffed by fey illumination, did a little testing earlier with it and ticks seemed much higher if I popped illumination first.
Although I was disappointed to find it was not buffed at all by rouse and I think it really should be.

Could not confirm.
Fey Union without Fey Illumination:

Fey Union with Fey Illumination (applied before FU):