Scholar is actually good, it just gets punished for having bad teams and when you're in a solo queue mode, it makes it unreliable. It's too gimicky, but trying to make it a conventional healer is a bad concept for the job and simply homogenizes yet another role.

Scholar is unviable due to the nature of solo queue, Dacien and Taru competed with it fine on the Light ladder when their teams were good quality; which provides the implication that WHM is better overall as a safe pick for solo queue but AST/SCH probs better in LP. Seraphim should get the Phoenix/Bahamut treatment, the AI simply doesn't work well in PvP and it's not exactly cheap to use.

Using Aura Blast for gauge is concern frog.
SCH performs extremely well when low on mana due to the sheer amount of OGCD healing. Besides, it's the same weakness WHM suffers from when using Dia.
No other ability does what Excog does. When SCH OGCD healing is already extremely good, excog just makes this better.
Suffers from same issue as AST, if you have to heal like a WHM, you OOM too easily, but SCH copes with it better than AST does.
Don't compare one ability to what another job has, Lustrate is more comparable to Solace than Excog is if you want to go down that route.

Who have you been talking to, out of curiosity?


If this is about FL tho ye by all means carry on, although the changes you've suggested aren't that good for Feast. Aura blast would be way too strong with that CD, and what's worse is you're only suggesting this because of the purpose you use it for, which is wrong.
Seraphim covered, just give egi treatment lol.
Faerie Gauge, not "Seraphin bar". Also if you're in a situation where you're having to Physick heal constantly on a SCH, the outlook isn't very good. Coincidentially this also applies to PvE.
That excog buff idea is absolutely ludicrous.