Heals for Scholors need a buff

[Ava]

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Like I said, healing a 4 man as SCH is just making things complicated, WHM is more reliable and easy and you don't have to fight with awful pet AI/terrible pet bar. I'd rather just heal 4 mans as WHM and use SCH for 8 man content. I can as SCH, I ran my first several on SCH to learn the job, but since I already have 50 WHM I see no reason not to queue as it. Also, you can't touch anything on the pet bar while you're casting something, just another usability issue with fairies.

[Tuskai]

There is a reason why Leechs is a unique job ability for Scholar and Esuna is a unique CNJ/WHM ability.

Its because they want status effect removal to be only on healers, if it wasn't, why would you want to waste the healer's time removing debuffs in a fight when you can have someone else remove them equally effectively, possibly more so if they don't normally use their MP?

And if you wonder why they don't just make Esuna like Cleric stance and let it only be on CNJ/WHM/SCH, its because Status effect removal is an important job in later dungeons, its because they don't want to force a player to play more of a class than the bare minimum to unlock another classes' jobs, just imagine how bad it would be for any SCH who didn't play enough CNJ to unlock Esuna without Leeches, they would be pretty much unplayable in certain dungeons.

[Rillifane]

Take thaumaturge to 26, cross class swift cast. If your pet dies swift cast > summon pet.

[Dorohedo]

Put her on Steady, she won't cast anything but Embrace. Activate cooldowns when you see fit.

Hmm i don't know if it was said somewhere on this forum but Selene (support pet) can be controled. Just click on monster and use Obey command like you would with attacking pet and she will only aoutocast her healing spell allowing you to manualy use silence and spell/skillspeed buffs but i think she will cast her heals at slower rate (just get that feeling). From my experience it doesnt work on Eos (healing pet).

[Dorohedo]

And if you wonder why they don't just make Esuna like Cleric stance and let it only be on CNJ/WHM/SCH, its because Status effect removal is an important job in later dungeons, its because they don't want to force a player to play more of a class than the bare minimum to unlock another classes' jobs, just imagine how bad it would be for any SCH who didn't play enough CNJ to unlock Esuna without Leeches, they would be pretty much unplayable in certain dungeons.

I humbly disagree with this statement as for Monk can have dmg buff from Lancer Blood for blood and that is lvl34 and Esuna is only lvl18 - so that what first 3 easy dungeons playthrough?

[10Gallonhat]

I healed both Cutters Cry, Qarn and Vigil last night as SCH.

I can promise you, SCH heals are just fine. If anyone is having problems, I was at first, it is because you are fighting the classes mechanics. Your pet is a totem, place it, forget it (except for aoe regen) and make it heel when you move to the next pull.

Eos' AOE is incredibly powerful when used with Succor. I can bring a group from near death to full while under fire just as quickly as with my WHM. Not having Leeches until 40 is annoying, but until Vigil there hasn't been any debuf brute healing couldn't bypass.

I was HIGHLY skeptical of the class at first, barring pets not leaving Gaurd when directly having them cast, I think the class is fine as is.

[Vyserion]

I'm finding that I'm having a mixed experience healing mid-level dungeons, though part of it seems to be the fact that people just don't listen to actual strategy, and I get swarmed. This saying that I'm not even 40 yet and have no AoE heal on my Scholar. I'd blame the tanks, but I'm wondering if anyone has any advice for me since I seem to run into healer aggro troubles a lot (despite consistently alternating the bulk of my healing between myself and Eos/Selene so that the fairy is getting as much of the aggro as possible without letting tanks die.)

[Acharial]

Heals for scholar are fine. A good scholar can keep the party from spiking so much in dmg taken. As for qarn, when you get doom on your faiy she will follow youon the plarform and be dispelled. I never had her die at all.

When running with selene you have awesome group buffs resulting in faster clears than with a whm. So I would not really say we need a buff in anyway.

[Pyrater]

scholar is the only class that can DPS (summoner) and heal, there heals are great i think scholar is good (up to 35 dunno about endgame). Threads like this just as the devs to make a class that already have a big advantage over other classes are lame.

[Acharial]

Like I said, healing a 4 man as SCH is just making things complicated, WHM is more reliable and easy and you don't have to fight with awful pet AI/terrible pet bar. I'd rather just heal 4 mans as WHM and use SCH for 8 man content. I can as SCH, I ran my first several on SCH to learn the job, but since I already have 50 WHM I see no reason not to queue as it. Also, you can't touch anything on the pet bar while you're casting something, just another usability issue with fairies.

Haha. Complicated? There is nothing complicated in having a SCH over WHM. The group will not even notice the difference unless the SCH is entirely. Actually, they will love you for the speed buff.