Scholar changes

[Endeleon]

1 - Don't forget they nerfed Embrace as well, and if the faerie scales as well as it has the past few expansions *cough*not at all*cough* it'll just be worse. But who knows, maybe they'll fix the scaling!
2 - I'm not going to comment on the DPS. I'm not a fan, and that's all I will say.
3 - Do you...Not keep Excog up on the tanks basically all the time if in combat? Have I been doing this wrong?

If you have excog on all the time you are probably wasting so many of them... So yeah.

[RyuDragnier]

If you have excog on all the time you are probably wasting so many of them... So yeah.

I wouldn't say it's a waste, since it's healing something, at the worst every 45s. If the tank doesn't fall below 50%, you at least helped top them off. It's not like it does nothing anymore when the duration ends.

[Ilenya]

If you have excog on all the time you are probably wasting so many of them... So yeah.

An excog per pull in dungeons makes sense but for raiding if you excog on cooldown (ish) you're pretty much doing it wrong yes. You should cycle through all your other free ogcd options before excog. Including your co healer ogcds since those don't actually have a cost (unlike excog). So that's fey union, rouse + embrace, whispering dawn if the timing is right for party heals, your cohealer's full ogcd options. If none of those are available (on cooldown / healers running a mechanic) or work for the upcoming damage pattern then excog is the go to.

Worth mentioning that by "wrong" I mean you probably have room for improvement. Excog on cooldown is going to be a waste but if you throw excog out 3-4 times in a fight instead of a potential once or twice it's not going to be a big deal. And probably not really worth your peace of mind.

In reply to these, I don't tend to automatically think in terms of raids since I don't run them all that actively. I was thinking dungeons.