Thread: Scholar 5.0 Discussion

Originally Posted by Foxkid

Otherwise, played a dungeon to level up to 71, my god was that just a pain in the ass to get through Sirensong Sea L I T E R A L L Y DOING NOTHING. Lustrate here, excog there, a couple succors, but the fairy takes care of most of it still unless the tank is doing a bigger pull.

I was in a dungeon and it's the first time since i play FF14 that i /followed a dps cause i was bored to cast 1 damn single dot on 5 diffrent targets + my dps was so weak, i was just wasting my time.

So i autofollowed someone and my fairy has done all the heal job and it worked.... next time i'll watch Lucifer while my toon will play alone. It's just pathetic.

Scholar has mana issues but it isn't that bad. Why is everyone being so over dramatic? If they want to make us balanced they just need to lower the cost of our skills a tad and give us an aether dump. And Aetherflow outside of combat but I feel like that one they are gonna stand firm on to keep us from getting extra stacks in a fight.

Heavensward Bard all over again. Guess I'm not playing Scholar for the next 2 years.

Originally Posted by Leoncault

I agree with above, i find that i have aetherflow stacks that I don't need. And honestly swapping Miasma 2 with Art of War animation would be for the best. I'd prefer if it still had it's dot, but I have a feeling they won't keep it. The true dream is to have energy drain back + miasma 2 + make art of war a little bit less mana + slight eos buff and I think it would be better.

That would be a good idea. Atleast if they want to streamline, give every healer a castable AoE or Single DoT like Aero 3 or Miasma. And please fix AoW. My brother is so angry about that skill he even uses it as a meme. It doesn't fit any looks horrible.
My brother was testing SCH today in DRs and after 1 Alliance Raid and DG he almost felt like stopping because it was just terrible. He was bored, he dmged over 90% of the time and did nothing else. The fairy was gone unnoticed and he even said that it doesn't matter anymore if she is there. After that he tested AST and WHM and they felt better. SCH is so horrible that he even thinks about hiding the job icon because he can't see SCH atm.
SCH was so killed by SE. SE seems to not know why SCH players play it. It's the fun of being able to DPS, manage DoTs, manage the fairy and be a tactician in the fight. What is SCH now? Nothing, nothing of it. You do nothing. I can understand people who do not lvl as SCH or even log off until changes come. Because how can you enjoy the MSQ with a job you loved which is pruned to death?

What was SE thinking btw about "balancing" and not bringing a 4th heal instead? This is balancing?? This is killing the jobs and the lore.
If they don't reverse a lot of changes, for example make the fairy a pet again and not this heal turret, DPS kit and AoW visual gone please and make it a DoT like Miasma 2, then I really don't know what will happen, maybe Healer in Need will be throughout ShB and there will be no SCHs there.

I tried to keep myself interested but I'm just going to stop at lv 74 on the MSQ and level Gunbreaker or something. At least that feels fun. They introduced QoL problems to SCH and AST (but they're at least addressing the queue problem on Play).

I'll use them for roulette fodder for crystals but that's it.

Originally Posted by Deceptus

Piety just sucks in general, it's Tenacity 2.0

Not enough to make any type of difference.

Wasn't Tenacity changed so it had some value? Or am I misremembering what I read?

Originally Posted by Deceptus

Tenacity used to be Parry. It was widely seen as useless before the change because of 1) how random it was and 2) how little it mitigated. After the change, you needed so much Tenacity to equal 1% of damage mitigation that it wasn't worth it to gear for it.

I remembered it used to be Parry, but I thought they had changed Tenacity itself so that it had some value after it was changed to Tenacity. I guess I was wrong.