In all honesty legit nothing....and I mean it

Scholar is the "problematic" child of ffxiv and the reason why? Is because they are the jealous type and feel threatened with any new healer put into the game

I remember back in ARR days where legit every scholar threatened to quit the game just because they felt threatened over the "new" astrologian job, and that it looks more "flashy"

So legit most of them tried the new healer and done theorycraft and what not, as soon they found out AST wasn't that great, they all jump ship back to SCH and base AST hard calling it a useless healer because it have weaker heals/shields/and buffs not that great

Now scholar is the king when it comes to being a support partner and always have been for an eternity , AST tried to knock it off its throne and couldn't do it, Eventually AST started to replace WHM instead


Now in 6.0 sage is coming....and suprise suprise SCH mains is acting out again, any "new' flashy heal or reading legit 1 tooltip SCH is the first to cry wolf and always have

I remember the massive backlash about AST shields because the tooltip was leaked, SCH mains bashed it sooo hard, but what they didn't know is....AST shield did NOT apply CRIT bonus shield like the scholar does


Scholar will be fine, and most likely be used for "prog" like whitemage is used for "prog"

AST and Scholar will be most likely be used for speed runs As per usual, and fyi the movement speed buff scholar gives, also applies a damage reduction (which people forgot)

Now with sage...it's just a DPS healers that does some shields, and damage reduction and healing, it doesn't really do anything else for the raid

So I give it a month after the 17th November, and I garentee Sage will be the worst healer, once meta's start forming

(the same happened in HW with AST that legit no one wanted it, which the meta was formed as WHM/SCH)

Then stormblood game which it evolved....it became AST/SCH for its potent raid DPS boost