Can Scholar get Quickened Aetherflow and a way to spread Biolysis back?

[sexythaumaturge]

Energy drain returning was great, but it was fun to plan its usage with Quickened Aetherflow to perfectly time the Aetherflow reset. In addition, the AoE 'rotation' is very boring, with you hitting the floor with your book the most uninspired thing ever.

My suggestions to make the class REALLY fun are:
- Give back Quickened Aetherflow
- Make Deployment Tactics spread Biolysis if used on enemies, also greatly amplifying potency of Biolysis for its duration. This would ensure you can use Deployment Tactics for DPS purposes so there is an element of choice
- Make Aetherpact deal damage if used on an enemy, with the fairy draining their HP for the duration of the Faerie Gauge. The tether could be red or something.
- Give Broil III an occasional 'Broil IV' proc that acts as Summoner's insta-cast Ruin IV.

These things would add a nice decision-making layer for using some of the existing abilities for DPS-ing for people who are excellent at healing and able to squeeze out a bit more damage. Nothing would change for less skilled players. In addition, the number of actions for hotbars wouldn't change.

[Kurando]

Is there really much point in returning Bane (or SCH equivalent) back to SCH, they only have one dot now as opposed to the two they had before, thus made sense to spread them. Also WHM and AST can't put dots on multiple enemies so as nice as it would be, doesn't seem fair to the other healers. SCH could do with a big aoe attack like Holy/Blood Lily spell or Earthly (heavenly?) Star but not sure it would happen.

[TalithaSolarien]

Is there really much point in returning Bane (or SCH equivalent) back to SCH, they only have one dot now as opposed to the two they had before, thus made sense to spread them. Also WHM and AST can't put dots on multiple enemies so as nice as it would be, doesn't seem fair to the other healers. SCH could do with a big aoe attack like Holy/Blood Lily spell or Earthly (heavenly?) Star but not sure it would happen.

Art of War has the same range as Holy and has recently been buffed. It’s just missing the Stun utility from WHM.

[Connor]

Wouldn’t this make Scholar even more overpowered than it is now? Scholar healing isn’t that far off White Mage and Astrologian and the main reason is because they spend more time attacking than the other two because of all the superpowered oGCDs. Now that it has Energy Drain it’s DPS is also very close to White Mage’s, so any changes to its damage dealing would break that balance and put Scholar further ahead than White Mage if it’s healing or DPS power increases. That said, none of this would be an issue if they nerfed other parts of our kit. The Aetherflow cd reduction could work if they reduced the potency of Excogitation, and the Deployment Tactics idea could work if they lowered Biolysis potency. But overall I feel like Scholar is in a position at the moment where they can’t touch its kit without either nerfing it or also having to buff White Mage and Astrologian

I also feel like a Ruin IV type spell would give it a pretty unfair advantage in terms of mobility and oGCD weaving, since generally weaving with Ruin II has to come at some kind of DPS cost unless they give White Mage and Astrologian access to instant cast spells that are stronger than their filler. Broil would have to have its initial potency dropped quite a lot, with Broil III taking on the current potency for the spell.

I don’t mean to suggest that they’re bad ideas or that I’m not for such changes. But at the same time, I think Scholar is already so powerful that the developers can’t really do anything to its kit outside of QoL