Thread: Scholar 6.0 Rework

Originally Posted by Sunhwapark

You can't say you're giving SCH more control and then strip them of their secondary form of MP recovery, and also take virtually all their AOE mitigation options of Soil + Deployment Tactics, Fey Illumination. You even nerfed Consolation and turned it into Seraphic Veil 2.0 just to relegate the resources behind a gated seraph phase which ALSO now costs resources to use it's abilities, even the current dissipation penalty isn't so extreme and offers you a slight potency boost to your GCD heals during the fairy downtime.

It would seem that way, but no, i got rid of thoes abilities mainly for their lack of "cohesivness" and casual need, saying this now though, I have nothing against Energy Drain, and i would totally be ok with keeping it, its just that SE nerfed its damage into the ground, and scholar dosent seem to burn mana like white mage does, so just as not to clutter things up i removed it, but hek, if they would decide to re-buff it, keeping it would be nice.

For what reason? Soil is one of the best mitigation tools across the healing role. Sure Noct.AST/WHM still have damage migitation baked into their Collective Unconcious & Temperance, but those skills are not available to deal with as many raid-wide hits as Sacred Soil is.

Its not that i hate sacred soil either, but if were being honest Sacred soil is not a Scholar ability -- it belongs to the white mage, and it kinda ties in with one of the big problems healers have right now, they each have slightly edited versions of the exact same move. In loosing this ability, true scholars are loosing a bit of mitigation, but unlike something like the White mage, they can create party-wide barriers to compensate for that loss, if nothing else it will give them a challenge, and unlike (some fights) a Tank lv 3 LB, Soil is not mandatory to keep a party-wide wipe from happening.

Interesting idea, but way too strong unless the faerie gauge expires much faster than currently.

Ya, it burns the fairy gauge like a drug addict through crack.

Overall you have proposed to remove or nerf so many protective tactics that scholar currently provides,.

The thats one way to see it, but when you look at it objectively, i only removed 3 abilities, but gave back 12, and made 4 (give or take 1) better, , but i believe i did more than just change stuff around, i gave scholars a much bigger distinction in gameplay style and purpose from the other 2 healers, and they not only now have better things to do on thier down time, but i gave them more fairy control, and a more potent and engaging dps rotation -- and any blind spots that were created by taking away thoes 3 spells are covered by the fairies and their abilities.