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Scholar Changes

Miasma is back.
Bane is back, allowing Scholar to spread their DoTs.
Chain Stratagem is now spreadable as well for AoE situations.
Agree with all of these, SCH would benefit tremendously from all of this as it stands and these are my biggest wants for SCH and what would happily keep me playing for years to come. (Provided the other good things about Scholar weren't messed with)

Faerie Gauge now gradually fills by 5 per tick while remaining in combat.
Dissipation now restores doubles Faerie Gauge regen for a total of 10 a tick, changes Fey Illumination to Fey Divination and Fey Blessing to Fey Frenzy.
Scholar doesn't need passive resource gain; WHM/SGE have it, let SCH stay different.

Fey Fury - OGCD ability, at the cost of 10 Faerie Gauge, empowers your next Broil or Art of War to deal an additional 25% potency.
If this has a CD, you've just created another ShB Fey Blessing - a button that doesn't need to be tied to gauge at all due to its CD being longer than it could ever feasibly gauge spend with that ability; if this does not have a CD, you've created another reason for the perception of "Scholar doesn't want to heal!"
We don't need any DPS abilities associated with your faerie. I'd rather they get rid of gauge entirely then introduce DPS abilities into your Faerie, and I'm saying this as someone who thinks SCH desperate needs its DoTs back and someone who thinks Aetherflow/Energy Drain is a good thing. SCH doesn't need to be doing more DPS number wise, and it especially doesn't need to sacrifice more of its healing prioritization to do so in my opinion.

Putrefy - 15 second cooldown, deals damage with a potency of 275 in an AoE, reapplying all of the caster’s DoTs
If they give back Miasma to SCH (and I really, really pray that they do) giving it a "Tri-Disaster" that refreshes its DoTs eliminates the point and we will warp back to the exact same SCH that has 1 DoT now in the future. If you use 1 button like Iron Jaws to refresh your DoTs constantly after they've been applied, there's no management and it functionally just becomes the same 1 DoT gameplay we have now. Do not add Iron Jaws/Tri-Disaster to SCH when the DoTs return, or else SCH will be led down the same road it's on now. DoT management needs to actually be management; SCH needs to be casting Miasma and using Bio rather than hitting them once a fight and then pressing a button to reapply over and over. Why bother having separate DoTs at that point?