Can Ruin II have a different name for Scholar?

[MellowMink]

Ruin 2 should have been taken out of SCH's kit and replaced with something like Spirit Dart. If anything Id argue that Broil should replace Ruin at lvl30 as well with Broil 2 being lowered to the mid 50s.

I like this idea, although I’d go even further and not have a Ruin spell for Scholar to begin with, since I’m still hoping that Scholar is eventually completely delinked from Arcanist altogether.

[Shurrikhan]

I’m still hoping that Scholar is eventually completely delinked from Arcanist altogether.

Experience sharing aside, I'm hoping for the opposite, as the ACN thematic roots are what gave SCH most of its uniqueness relative to other healers. DoTs, effect manipulations, building off of metamagics. That was ACN at work, just via a way of capitalizing upon those roots that mirrored, opposite, the means SMN took.

I'd rather see a revised Bane, a more interesting Energy Drain (rather than just a barrel-scraping means of trading out excess healing potential for at least something), and other things centered around Aetherflow than just more Seraph bs. By all means, let's actually do something with Stratagems, too, but the ACN base to SCH was a good one.