Scholar has the worst design of any job in the game, and here's why.

[Dearche]

Fairy Clunkiness

You can't 'take advantage' the fairy's delay, since it's not a fixed amount. Simply speaking, you can't, because there's no reliability. You can only compensate for it on the level of 'between 3-6s', and that doesn't take into account any additional delays due to the AI. But really, you want to bet your party's chances of living through a mechanic on something that might come early, or might come late?

It's even worse when you realize that the capstone ability Consolation is both a heal and a shield, but the shields don't stack and has a variable delay between the two uses if you try to spam them. Frankly, the ability is best on repeated raid damage, as you use it after the first hit, and try to get it all off before the attack is done. That way you get the benefit of both the heal and the shield over four or more hits that take as long as ten seconds. But wait! Ten seconds of damage? But the ability can take anywhere between six and twelve seconds to use! But if something goes wrong with the AI, then it'll take even longer! So you're basically gambling that both effects come out sometime during the boss's attack, after precharging the move as much as eight seconds in advance due to how long the animation is to both summon the Seraph and to activate Consolation.

This is raid memorization on the level of Titan Extreme, and that was a simple and predictable fight in comparison to modern raids.

What you're suggesting, is to Get Gud to the level of world first raiders, just to use SCH at a basic level. I don't know, but if I can do that, then I can also become the world's #1 DOTA2 player before EW comes out, and I haven't even touched that game before.

Look, I'm not trying to attack you personally, but your argument is falls between 'Get Gud' and 'Ignore it'. That's the antithesis of what we're trying to do on these forums.