Thread: Scholar since 4.1 patch - how are we finding it?

Originally Posted by Teraluna

At PAX East Yoshi P stated his dislike for Cleric Stance, which was a major hint that this was destined to go.
Nothing last minute or 'appease the casuals' as you put it.

It's speculation. You can't prove that he meant it was to be removed as his statement only alluded to it being changed in some way. And I also can't prove that it was last minute. However, it's still obvious that both the moves I mentioned were designed with Cleric Stance in mind. They literally synergise brilliantly with the old iteration of it.

And lol it was definitely to appease the casuals, whether you agree with it or not. This entire expansion gutted most jobs for the casuals. Good healers were never limited by Cleric Stance, it's the overwhelming majority of questionable ones that couldn't handle it.

What inhaldecorn said. It's just misleading to list out the number comparisons without accurately reflecting the final values from crit/Noct multipliers.

Fey Union was designed more to remove fairy micromanagement and randomness. This way you constantly aren't needing to spam embrace, just use fey during long periods and go. Excog I don't see much point to, so I can't say much on that.

I can say cleric would probably have killed dpsing in Stormblood if it existed the old way, though. mechanics and incoming damage seem a bit faster than in HW, and dpsing would be harder to enter into because there are times when you simply can't risk the penalty.

I was in favor of CS being removed because A) it freed up a hotkey and B) was a constant source of forum complaining and drama (people who still don't understand how the game works - no, there really isn't unpredictable damage - and/or have latency issues that make the stance more difficult to use correctly) and didn't add much value gameplay-wise for experienced players.

On the other hand, I do agree with Kabzy that SCH's toolkit appears more than ever to be synergized with a now non-existent stance mechanic. I consider this to be more of an identity issue, which is my main beef with SCH this expansion. SCH, the pet healer whose pet's overall effectiveness is further marginalized with each major update; the barrier healer who doesn't do it quite as well as the newcomer; the ease-of-DPS healer in an expansion where sources of indirect healing no longer have value in extending a CS DPS window; the adaptive healer when each healer now has powerful oGCD and instacast tools.

SCH is perfectly capable, especially with the recent round of buffs (particularly to Succor, which also offers great synergy with Emergency Tactics when needed); however, SCH is missing some of the uniqueness and shine that made it so appealing to me before. The inexplicable lack of synergy within its own kit (e.g. Fey Union vs. Dissipation) also continues to boggle me.

I hate Dissipation, I know some think it can be useful with good reason, but I just have this irrational hatred for that action.

Originally Posted by Miles_Maelstrom

I hate Dissipation, I know some think it can be useful with good reason, but I just have this irrational hatred for that action.

Haters gonna hate.

Had a static 13 deaths in O3S, still cleared. Dissipate can be quite useful in a pinch. You just don't always plan on it.