Thread: Scholar 5.0 Discussion

Originally Posted by Billythepancake

It was very much a risk and reward job, the more you learned to optimize and where to heal less, the more EDs you got, if you got too greedy though, you screwed yourself out of a free heal and either had to heal with a GCD or let someone die, it was a lovely system. And I honestly cannot say it feels the same with what it lost, yes, it was classified as a healer but most people I've met agreed that it was fun because it was the healer/dps hybrid. Its rotation wasnt complex, but it had a rotation! It's main resource was for dps and healing, and while I never had the pleasure of trying HW, I hear about how wonderful it was and truly being able to be a dps/healer hybrid. Now scholar is nothing but broil machine 3000 with half a dozen unnecessary heals (physick, Fey blessing, seraph, the HoT on sacred, or just sacred in general honestly, Fey union, and a lot will argue for dissipation, which ironically would've been great this expac if we still had ED, go figure) not to say any of those abilities are entirely useless, they're certainly not, but remove them and I doubt any scholar would have trouble healing any content.

Haha well!!! You should have played HW xd that was definition of risk/reward! Cleric stance Lets go!
But i may come off veeery deluded and as i said its a personal opinion so idc what others view the job as. Buts its alrigjt i was trying to put up a point but failed to do so cuse its almost 4 am here so eh.

Sch sure has dozen of unecessary skills for this expac even. Hell im using sacred soil more lol.

Originally Posted by Johaandr

Haha well!!! You should have played HW xd that was definition of risk/reward! Cleric stance Lets go!
But i may come off veeery deluded and as i said its a personal opinion so idc what others view the job as. Buts its alrigjt i was trying to put up a point but failed to do so cuse its almost 4 am here so eh.

Sch sure has dozen of unecessary skills for this expac even. Hell im using sacred soil more lol.

I have no idea if scholar was or is the more complex healer job, I've never had ast or whm at max level so can't rightly say. All I know is that Ruin went from being the least used spell in my arsenal to Broil III being the most used since 2.0, that I think is a symptom of the problem with the job as it strayed further and further from the Arcanist roots.

Hope you sleep well. We'll see if anything changes today. If not I hope it's brought up on the upcoming Live Letter.

So we got energy drain back it seems. Level 45.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...c8cee52472b81a

Doesn't say, just that they added it back as a new skill.

I'm really excited to see if Energy Drain is any different from what we had before.

Originally Posted by Mesarthim

Doesn't say, just that they added it back as a new skill.

the potency of new energy drain is 150. the job guide was updated

Originally Posted by Zolvolt

the potency of new energy drain is 150. the job guide was updated

Ah, so it is. I kind of forget that exists once the game goes live for a week-ish.