Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
Admittedly, my take on these are probably the more odd. Simply put, I feel like SCH\\'s toolkit capitalized far better on what themes it transposed from Arcanist.
Honestly, being able to apply and strategically detonate dots or hots at key moments for a DPS gain or an extra Shield seems like really fun and interesting gameplay.

I was never too fond of the "fey" aspects of Scholar, though I admit the idea of pairing up with a pet and heal is an archetype that is interesting and somewhat unique.

FFXI 's Scholar was all about regens, metamagic (In the sense that you can modify the potency, duration and effect of your spells by using stratagems) and weather effects with Helix spells and Klimaform.

Other Scholar iterations in the Saga revolve around Identifying monster weaknesses and gaining bonuses with the Libra and Analysis abilities.

Seems like SCH's identity is a bit all over the place in the series. It's a "caster" associated with books and grimoires but that's about it.

Like Sage it doesn't have much of a definitive identity when it comes to its function or gameplay, unlike WHM for example which is consistently the icon of support and resorarive magics.

They could have gone in any direction really, as long as they kept the book and spectacles.