Quote Originally Posted by virgil204 View Post
Scatter has a 25% chance to proc and even more powerful scatter upon hit.
Just a minor nitpick... It's not more powerful in terms of damage, it just builds 8 white and black balance instead of just 3 of each.

I do agree with your post in general though. Earlier tonight I ran a Skalla as a Scholar where we did full pulls, and the red mage did their single target rotation the entire way through. I'm glad that I had gone with Scholar instead of Astrologian since at least I had decent dps to partially make up for it and the resources to maintain healing for the looooong fights that lasted long past the tank's cooldowns.

Quote Originally Posted by virgil204
3 Mobs: Scatter and alternate between VerAero and VerThunder to quickly build Black and white mana.

4 Mobs: Spam Scatter.
This is the most efficient, yes, with the added caveat that for 3 targets if you have a proc'd Scatter use that instead of VerThunder or VerAero. A normal Scatter does the same damage vs. 3 targets as VerAero, VerThunder, or a proc'd Scatter, but gives only 6 balance compared to the 11 balance of the single target spells and the 16 balance of the proc'd Scatter.

But even if all you do is Scatter Spam, the difference is not huge since it's only a difference of balance earned which might add up to one or maybe two extra Moulinet.