Scholar

[Brandedblade]

Heyaz, everyone~

Just got Scholar and I love it! He's perfect for lvling dungeons (which are mostly Sasha, TamTa and Copper for me), but I struggle with him on anything higher then Hauke. I have no problems keeping everyone topped as WHM, but I struggle with Scholar.

Any advice? My gear is all stuff from Qarn.

Here's my advice. Think more like a tank. You want to cycle your cooldowns to keep damage flow steadied as opposed to reactively bursting. While it can feel weirder at lower levels when you're still missing alot of your cooldowns. You still have one or two of them. Try to get into the mindset of being preemptive as opposed to reactive. The cooldowns are there and should be used as opposed to held on to.

pre-40 you more or less only have Whispering dawn as far as cooldowns go. Try to use it early and often as the regen helps you significantly, especially at the start of the packs where the tank is taking the most of their damage.

Shields, they should definitely be used, but not over used. Adloquium on the tanks is enough of a buffer to allow you to get at least some amount of damage out before needing to heal the tank. However, the fastest way to run out of mp is to lean to heavily.


And lastly, do try to get into the habit of dpsing as well, a dead mob does zero dps. Even if it was allegedly "better" back in the day with more dps skills, you can still dot mobs at the start and nuke a target until your tank needs healing. It can take a but of feeling and gauging your tank to get used to but the more you do it the more comfortable and intuitive it becomes. And like I said, a dead mob does zero dps, the faster you can help kill without killing the tank the safer he'll be in the long run.