Openly admitting to ignoring the players

[Garnix]

Wait what??

Did u all forget that they legit said all healers is getting a holy treatment with their AoE skills ....

That means Art of War 2 now does more then just "damage" and that all healers can provide buffs to the party

At this current time we DO NOT have the new tool tips for the current healers, the only healer we have tool tips on is sage and that's it

We don't even know if glare/broil/malefic does new things, we do not know what the new gravity/holy/art of war does either

At this current time scholars are throwing their hands in the air AGAIN before even knowing anything at all

Sigh this is just a repeat history of 3.X where scholar legit panicked over AST......Now it's panicking over SAGE, scholars always panic over any new healing job that gets put into the game

Been here for 8 years in total and history repeats it self .....sigh

I wouldn't expect too much from the new AoE skills. They said they will have some differences to make them a bit more unique to each job but I can see it being like: Holy stuns, Gravity inflicts heavy (like Stella did), Art of War inflicts slow (like Shadowflare did). It would be nice if they had more useful effect and if they were made useful for single target fights (like DoTs, buffs, debuffs) but I doubt it.
For the new single target spells (glare/broile/malefic), even if they have a different effect, it wouldn't add much. It would still be about spamming them. Unless they are all brand new buttons and not just a trait "Dia 1 becomes Dia 2". But that's very unlikely based on what was shown.
Scholar will be fine though, I agree. It won't be 3.X Scholar, but it will be fine.