Quote Originally Posted by Brightamethyst View Post
Leeches was replaced by Esuna for balance reasons. Since Scholar evolves from a DPS class instead of a healing one is it has no low level healing spells besides Physick and pet abilities. EVERYTHING else is learned at 30+. That led to problems when you were trying to do dungeon like Toto-rak and Brayflox but couldn't cure poisons until level 40. Leeches was removes and replaced with Esuna as a role action to fix that issue.
They could just add it as a Scholar skill early on, they clearly don't mind removing skills between job change so why not add one, and it'd mean that a class Like Sage dosent have its entire naming convention broken by a random Esuna.

It just feels like a lot of healers have had these changes that contradict with their Lore, White Mage now has no elements in its entire moveset despite every bit of it being an opposite to black mage, using Stone, Wind and Water, now all there is-is Aquaveil, I don't know if I'm dumb for caring so much but the game clearly wants me to be invested in the lore, hence why the story campaign is required for progression but I feel like I'm being punished for trying to read more into it!
Let's not even talk about healer damage being so low that every story related battle is a slog meaning the only time I had fun was when I got to play as other characters, a stance or anything to buff damage while alone would also be appreciated, I've heard tanks struggle too but not to the same extent as trying solo content with an Astrologian...