Quote Originally Posted by NobleWinter View Post
ARR Scholar was a legit green dps. We jokingly say green dps a lot but those were good times when it actually held true. You could tell it came from a dps class cause you were busy in all the right ways. So many dots! I miss it so much. Every healer should have been that enjoyable but it's obvious now they had more time to design the class back then becuase its only lost complexity and skills with every expansion.
Personally I consider Stormblood to be the peak of SCH's design. ARR was fine within its era for sure, but Heavensward Scholar was too powerful, iirc it could do like 2/3s of a dps' damage + plus could cover a fairly decent chunk of the healing in optimized settings. While Stormblood isn't perfect by any means (Miasma II and Ruin II where in poor and conflicting spots design wise in my opinion) I think it was a good compromise between accessibility and complexity.