SCH is a mess, thematically and visually, and needs streamlining

[fulminating]

What do you mean? It’s an arcanist (poison tactician) that found a scholar (faerie tactician) job stone.

I don’t understand what you mean about the colour thing, warrior with its four buttons also uses every colour under the sun, white mage should be using brown, blue and greenish on its offensive spells alone not this bland sparkliness it’s been lumped with, ast has incredibly pretty visuals in a multitude of colours, sage is a mess on every level and it’s not like dps are any different (see samurai, dragoon, blue mage).

The mix of archaic words is probably meant to indicate that the job’s been lost since nym fell like at least 20 years before ARR.

Sage is clearly a new job that at best is copied homework and at worst an uninspired joke not even living up to how it was sold to the playerbase. It has not had time to develop any identity beyond “bad scholar” and until it gets a few expansions under its belt is not at all sensible to compare with the established healers (ast, the next most recent being added in heavensward).

[Nizzi]

What do you mean? It’s an arcanist (poison tactician) that found a scholar (faerie tactician) job stone.

Pretty much this; before they decided to gut the DPS abilities from SCH, it had a very good spread of color coded abilities.



It was very nice - outside of a small amount of abilities like Ruin and Bio, you had a very general and uniform theme.
Purples and Reds for Attacks, and Greens for heals.

Scholar can very easily go back to this, especially now that SGE is the "high tech" healer. Make Biolysis, AoW II, Broil III/IV and Chain more in line with this and SCH doesn't have conflicting themes anymore.
SCH is also the only job in the game that switches class types, so I think it's more than fair to give it leeway where other jobs wouldn't.