Dev Team Feedback - SCH

[WaxSw]

In all fairness this is the problem with healers

Currently I do like that they are finally splitting them up into shield healer and pure healer, so I expect more changes to happen to balance these roles together

The problem I see on the scholar side is often people keep "pushing" to further their "healing" role, when in fact I think scholar needs to be pushed more on its "shielding" factor and support to the "pure healer"


All scholar skills works as intended and require u to "think" with Ur co healer and map our Ur skills to beat the boss, with minimum effort in the healing aspect

Scholar provides a STRONG kit to the other healer in the party and is the king for being the secondary healer that is legit unmatched, which people keep forgetting

Scholar provides soo much

Fey illumination (increase healing + damage reduction)

Sacred soil (regen + damage reduction, cost 1 aether)

Whispering dawn (no mp cost just a cd)

Indom (no mp cost, cost 1 aether)

Lustrate x3 (no mp cost and cost 1 aether)

Chain strategem (damage buff for the entire party)

Now with endwalker coming they now have even more skills to support their co healer

New buff ( increase max hp, and heals them)
New AoE buff (increase movement speed + damage reduction last 20sec.....this skill is soo broken it's going to get nerf it last longer then normal sprint since that got nerf to 10sec whilst in combat)


So yeah I kinda expect some nerfs heading towards scholar and astrologian in endwalker because they have TOO much utility in their kit so I can already see a few nerfs coming to these jobs in endwalker

I think in the meta they're not overpowered and in the case of Sch will rely on how much chain stratagem gives, in fact I'd say that what may make Sch powerful against sage is not at all what you said, let me elaborate:

Fey Illumination: 5% mitigation + 10% buff to gcd heals to both you and your partner at 2m cd, its not among the strongest things sch has as the 5% is only to magical attacks and the 10% only affects gcds so is mostly used as a 5% mitigation at 0 dps cost nothing that may make a healer above the other however while Sch can only reach 14% mitigation at 0 dps cost (Expedient + Illumination), Sage can reach 19% (Kerachole+Pneuma).

Sacred Soil: It has a 100 dps cost while Sge has an equivalent in Kerachole for free which only has 1 less regen tick and a better reach (15y vs 8y), soil can be placed but its easier to get the 100% power from kerachole as its a buff, in terms of efficiency Kerachole is better

Whispering dawn: Sge has Physis which is exactly the same but with 20% more power

Indom: Sage has Ixochole which is the same as Sch but while Indom has (outside recitation) 100 potency dps cost Sge's version is free

Lustrate: Sage has Druochole which is the same but once again at 0 dps cost while Sch version has 100 potency cost

Chain Strat: The thing that imo will make or break Sge

Protraction: A strong skill indeed but not that far from Sge's version, Sch version has 10% hp increase and 10% heal increase while Sge's version has 20% heal increase, Sch wins this one

Expedient: While the sprint is good and can help prog its not always a gain, the real kicker is the 10% mitigation as is the only way Sch has to provide a 10% partywide mitigation without dps loss, Sge has the same with pneuma but with a 400 heal which may help it to avoid gcds and be something useful in any kind of content, both mitigations last the same but as I said while Sge can reach 19% without losing dps Sch would have to use Soil (and lose dps) to reach the same.

Is too soon to say which will the meta, we don't know with the stat squish how strong stratagem will be vs the Sge extra potency but in terms of just healing while Sch is no weakling and its very versatile Sge seems to be an equally versatile healer but more efficient