Have we given up on SCH?

[FoxyAreku]

What's there to give up? Scholar is fine and certainly better than astrologian which still may as well be a dead job. All scholar needed was energy drain back, now that they have it it's pretty good.

The multiple DoTs to chain with the spreading of them took a big part of its cycle if you wanted to use it fully.
In that regard, reducing it to a single DoT wasn't that outlandish a choice imo. The one i think weird though is getting the spread fonctionality out, as it was made to cleverly initiate a fight by putting DoT and then focusing on healing.

Bane felt nice to use, but optimally it was terrible due to the nerf it received in stormblood and it was a lot more DPS to multi-dot manually. Removing bane simply drives home this point and makes people do their DPS the right way. Only time bane was useful was in those rare cases where there's too many enemies to multi-dot efficiently.