Quote Originally Posted by Grimoire-M View Post
Heavensward wasn’t special. ARR through SB Scholar was absolutely broken though. It had too much free healing. And warped the other two around it. Micromanaging the fairy wasn’t worth the carpal tunnel at high ping imo. I’m fine with the nerfs it got in Shadowbringers. I’m not okay with the trim on their DPS kit. Any changes I want on the healing side are baseline throughput nerfs that come coupled with flexibility focused buffs. Mostly because I want to widen the gap between Scholar’s min and max throughput.

All Heavensward really had was consistent tank damage that actually cut into Embrace and Regens through a combination of omni-present autos, mini busters/cleaves, crits, and actual factual tank busters. Stormblood Scholar had a sheer excess of tank auto tools. Shadowbringers gave everyone Tank Mastery instead of killing aggro reduction from non-tanks and took away the mini busters and consistent autos for less frequent periods of slightly heavier auto damage contingent on each fight. Those changes resulted in more consistent damage intake, that is overall lower than previous expansions when you finally factor in relative gear scaling into the equation.
Can we stop with the Scholar was OP thing? That is a old, tired, very very dead horse.

Scholars JOB DESIGN was glorious back then; hell, it could have done absolutely awful damage and healing wise and I still would have played it because of how complex and deep it was.