SCH needs help

[Side-Eye]

As the presumptive shield healer with a guaranteed meta spot, I'm not sure why this thread exists.

[KDSilver]

As the presumptive shield healer with a guaranteed meta spot, I'm not sure why this thread exists.

Scholar is not "meta".
https://www.fflogs.com/zone/rankings...lercombineddps
We have more variety at any type of level right now.

[Synaesthesia]

Scholar is not "meta".
https://www.fflogs.com/zone/rankings...lercombineddps
We have more variety at any type of level right now.

https://www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/33#class=Healers

I can't find old statistics, but I think it's actually less variety than used to be in Stormblood, even White Mage didn't have such a trailing adoption rate relative to Astrologian now. The point of balance isn't to make classes mathematically equal, it's to make sure they're all viable and desired enough so that players don't get locked out. It's ironic that they've made the classes more mathematically balanced than ever but created such a desire imbalance at the same time that the results aren't really any better than they've ever been.

Scholar is a very well represented class which is currently in a close 2nd for representation with third place being distant.

I do not think that Astrologian should be buffed to bring up its numbers, either. The low representation is pretty clearly coming from gameplay dislikes, not from a lack of power.

Scholar is a class that's being used frequently and with good result. Players in this thread looking for Scholar buffs arguing with numbers are asking to be placed solidly at the top again and lock out other healers at this point rather than asking because they feel a need to stop getting kicked from party finder groups for playing a bad class. This is counter to the reasoning they made all of these changes to begin with.