Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
I agree with most of this…
Yeah, I do agree that it’s not so binary as just being ‘all dps’ or ‘no dps’; there are definitely lots of players that fall into any end of those two extremes, just as there are surely many who are right in the middle with ‘some dps’.

For previous post (on mobile so can’t do double quoting magic please bear with me lol), I agree that Stormblood was a good compromise between ‘some dps’ and ‘some healing’. Personally I also miss some of the pure utility stuff we used to get like Scholar’s Eye for an Eye or even Astrologian’s Disable. Even Stoneskin (though I get they had to remove that because of inflated HP values). They’re not the most useful or game changing but it was still fun to have some utility that was just there to support lol.

That’s just a personal aside though, I feel the same about things like Bard’s Foe Requiem (rest in peace gone but not forgotten. In terms of the dps I’m most familiar with Scholar, and utilising the three DoTs, Shadowflare, etc was definitely more engaging than what we have now.

In terms of dps options for a Scholar personally I like the idea of them being for tactical usage as opposed to a direct dps rotation. Like a DoT with lower potency than Broil/Bio but an additional effect like reducing damage dealt. Or a shield that deals damage when broken or struck similar to Eye for an Eye, but has no direct healing potency so it won’t replace Adloquium. I liked Shadow Flare’s slow effect too, again it wasn’t particularly useful or game changing but it still felt nice to be dealing damage with more purpose than just ‘damage for damage’s sake’ (if that makes sense lol)