Quote Originally Posted by VictoriaLuv View Post
yes you have no control over who it embraces or when it decides to embrace. embrace isn't as strong people think it is. back in the day when had control over it. yes embrace was really strong. bur new system your very lucky and rng really loves your scholar or it pull of its heals when people need it the most.

people trying compare medica II to whispering dawn watch has 60 second cooldown. and medica II does not not to mention medica II first heal can crit, I have not once seen whispering dawn crit. when you put all these things into account the 60 second cooldown. embrace jank. pet jank. yes it needs be stronger. its like look askin have scholar made better. if your scholar main then you should want this too. the lack of meaty heals is what is major issue lack of fun dps opinions for. scholar.

Sages gonna completely totally destroy scholar as far as parsing. hell they heal from there damage. while adding large amounts of utility and shields how are you even gonna hold up. people already saying "oh crap its a scholar" every-time you run 4 man or 8 man dungeon cause unless your A/S tier healer 100% top of your game and putting twice if not more effort in your job. its gonna suck sorry people its the truth. scholar is unforgiving as hell
What you are asking for is the ability to have unmatched overhealing potential on oGCD which defeats the whole purpose of oGCD healing. Scholar's healing is one of the best in the game because the heals are distributed between many abilities. That offers players the chance to heal just what they need to heal, instead of overhealing.

If someone is playing WHM, it is logically better to overheal with Medica II than to use Cure III simply because Cure III uses more mana and it is on GCD just like Medica II. Even if it didn't use more mana like Medica, choosing to lose 400 cure potency over saving 300 MP is not really a choice. What are you going to do with that saved MP? It would have been different if MP was actually an extremely valuable resource. Only when it comes to using Lilies does WHM has some choice to make. They can either heal 700 in ST or 300 in AoE every 30s stacking up to 3 times.

Scholar has the highest depth of gameplay when it comes to healing because it has a lot of different ways to heal damage. The job has 3 oGCDs that heal approximately 600 AoE - Sacred Soil, Recitation+Indom, Whispering Dawn. SCH you have actual choices to make. With AST you have only cards to consider, oGCD healing is used on CD because it is free and it costs nothing. If Scholar uses Lustrate and Excog, they won't be able to use Sacred soil or Indom until Aetherflow becomes available again unless they use Dissipation which comes at a relatively high cost. Seraph becomes unavailable for 30s, Embrace is no longer healing and you are losing access to all of the fairy commands.

In Endwalker Sage is going to destroy every other healer. And unless AST's damage is stronger than that of Scholar, Scholar is also going to end up being favoured over AST in raids because they have stronger oGCD healing and a much better field action for mitigation. Also, having a fairy healing for 1/2 of Cardia is still better than nothing. Both AST and WHM lack any means to do what SGE and SCH are doing. They have ST oGCDs which SGE and SCH also have. Sage even has a cubic barrier on 120s cooldown which doesn't even consume a resource. Everyone has DPS neutral weaving potential. Playing optimally while healing is plausible for every job now, not only AST.

The only reason why people would be saying "oh crap its a scholar" if that is even true is that Scholar's method of healing is different from that of a regen healer and if someone plays Scholar like a WHM and mainly relying on GCD to heal, they are going to underperform greatly in terms of HPS and DPS.