Give Healers a simple DPS kit

[Supersnow845]

^this is why a lot of long term healers defend SCH more than casual healers.

Because SCH’s kit has engagement, it’s just in the form of dys-engagement

Dissipation, seraph, recitation, seraphism, whispering dawn, fey blessing fey union and fey illumination can all be locked out/disabled by another button in SCH’s kit and soil, indom, lustrate and excog can all be consumed by a DPS action leaving basically only expedient as a beneficial action with zero cost

It’s a form of engagement that SCH’s kit despite being so disjointed “clicks” together because every action has a consequence on another action

[Wildheaven182]

Those are reasons why i enjoy scholar. Its not about being locked out of abilities. Its about using all of your resources wisely. You dont need access to all seraph abilities at the same time as your fairie abilities. Ideally you use seraph while fairie abilities and dissipation are on cooldown. Simple logic. Thats dynamic and reactive decision making gameplay.

Id say sage should be the one with melee aoe instead of scholar. Its pretty silly when youre armed with a... book. Sage can be the cool one slipping and sliding around the enemies while the turrets do stuff.
Give scholar ranged art of war instead. Make it a lower potency than both ruin 1 and 2 too, its weird at lower levels to use your aoe for everything.

Id say the biggest problem with scholar is just fey union. Its hard to ever justify using it unless youre in a rare situation of keeping a tank alive so hard you run out of all other resources. I can barely tell if its even an increase in healing over it just casting its normal heal, while locking you out of all fairie abilities. I think fey union was just forgotten about.

But i wouldnt dare bring attention to scholar in case they "fix" it.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

They can be both on melee. After all, SCH's old Miasma II was a melee spell.