Can Ruin II have a different name for Scholar?

[Shurrikhan]

Personally I remember people who didn't sign up for BowMage in Heavensward rioting and I see this Half-AST casting as an affront in a similar manner.

BowMage was also the only time Straight(er) Shot was of any interest. Wanderer's Minuet was handled horribly, in that (much like Cleric Stance before it) it should have locked us out of reactivating the form, rather than into it (and it had too long a cooldown even then), but there are aspects of it I certainly miss, and will now miss on SCH.

But alas, given the choices between identity and conventional routes to capacity, even when just a bit more thought would allow us to have both identity and (differently given) capacity, people will quickly sacrifice the latter. Or at least the devs will on our "behalf".

[MellowMink]

So... it looks like it's official that Ruin II is now getting a third trait that increases its damage, yet the upgraded spell is still Ruin II rather than something new like how newer Broil IV and Art of War II spells were announced. Does anyone know why this is?

[Shurrikhan]

So... it looks like it's official that Ruin II is now getting a third trait that increases its damage, yet the upgraded spell is still Ruin II rather than something new like how newer Broil IV and Art of War II spells were announced. Does anyone know why this is?

Because R2 was synonymous with "SCH weave/mobility spell" and we apparently wouldn't know what to do with... Ruination, or whatever. /s