I love your ideas. Keep them coming, Dearche!

I agree with what you mentioned in regard to Scholar & the fake "Shield King" identity that it currently carries.

I kept hearing over and over again "Scholar is all about shields! So much shielding! Won't somebody think of the shields!" But in practice, I wasn't experiencing this at all. As you said, Adloquium without scoring a critical is technically worse than the White Mage main shield in multiple ways. The Scholar fairy being on autopilot is like having a 24/7 wasteful overhealing regen that will choose to take precedence over important spells in an emergency. Also, I kind of would like to cast my own heals or I truly will have nothing to do in a dungeon as a Healer, other than a 2-button DPS rotation.