Please buff Succor.

[sharazisspecial]

You cant really gear for crit atm. You need 16 crit rating for 1% including your base at most you will up with 36crit with full af+1/allagan gear which is not enough for reliable crit build.
Sch starts to mana problems in demanding content because they need to lustrate/soil and cast more spells to make up for their lack of potency.
selene provides 0.1 sec spell/gcd reduction on 50% uptime. Its no heroism. Lol. If sch had non stacking heroism strength spell then they would have a support healer role and a place.

[Eriane]

You cant really gear for crit atm. You need 16 crit for 1% including your base at most you will up with 36crit which is not enough for reliable crits.
Sch starts to mana problems in demanding content because they need to lustrate and cast more spells to make up for their lack of potency.

Fair enough on the crit. There really isn't enough room for gear customization.

If Scholars have mana issues.... how do white mages survive? Stack bards?

And i realized i referred to something with a WOW term. By heroism i mean a speed buff. I think its a fairy skill that affects the entire party? I suspect if scholars are underpowered in aoe healing its due to other skills. Are the dmg reduction and haste worth possibly losing for increased aoe healing?

Last question, how many scholar issues would realistically be fixed by not having a broken pet. Right now that is the biggest deterent for me personally to lvling a scholar.

[Eriane]

You answered one of my questions with an edit. lol. I don't think it would be game breaking for your aoe heal to do more direct healing if a shield is already up. It sounds like thats the issue. When proactive healing isn't enough you simply don't have an aoe option to just refill health. But i do think a combination of the two classes is better.

[kronpas]

Fair enough on the crit. There really isn't enough room for gear customization.

If Scholars have mana issues.... how do white mages survive? Stack bards?

And i realized i referred to something with a WOW term. By heroism i mean a speed buff. I think its a fairy skill that affects the entire party? I suspect if scholars are underpowered in aoe healing its due to other skills. Are the dmg reduction and haste worth possibly losing for increased aoe healing?

Last question, how many scholar issues would realistically be fixed by not having a broken pet. Right now that is the biggest deterent for me personally to lvling a scholar.

The fairy holds most of SCH's stronger cooldowns yet its utterly broken at the moment, thats why while I'm supporting for a stronger succor, im not going so far as saying the whole class is broken. Lack of AoE healing might never be addressed fully as its working as intended, but SCH brings some quite strong supporting spells to the party. Like, for example, the 2 speed buffs at 1m CD, 30s duration when chained promise sustainable boost for the party, yet the fairy auto casts spel buff and never cast attack buff. pet AoE heal might make up for the weak perfomance of succor, and the +heal potency buff & -spell damage taken (quite significant amount) is really good (although the CD might be lil high).

The +% speed might not be real good at the moment, but its scale by % so if the stats difference between gear tiers is substantial it will eventually becomes a sort of bloodlust in the future.

But the first issue needs to be addressed is the stupid pet control mechanism. Why in the world I cant control my pet when casting spells!? The whole idea of a 'flexible' healer gone straight to the trash bin with this idiotic design.

[Eriane]

But the first issue needs to be addressed is the stupid pet control mechanism. Why in the world I cant control my pet when casting spells!? The whole idea of a 'flexible' healer gone straight to the trash bin with this idiotic design.

Is it terrible that my first thought was something like the gambit system from ff12 for pets? Lol i wonder if that would actually work. People put so much effort into making that game autoplay. Totally random thought i know. But in all honesty i agree... if the "fix" for pets is to manually control them you should be able to even if casting.

[Valiant]

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maybe its worded wrong or SE f'd up the faerie but she doesn't give as much speed as labeled(and the pet ai is also broken)... and for the record the effect of regen and medica 2 regen the potency is per tick not overall and that makes a huge difference compared to an unstackable shield... That was something I actually tried myself. Would you rather have a 500 hp shield or multiple regens that can cure for 4 times that easily... that's the issue with sch.. and any good whm worth their salt would know how to manage their mana. all i have to say is... remember van darnus? i never ran out of mp in that fight.. though mp refresh isn't the same as 1.0 you can always wait out a few mins for mana to be restored especially if only the tank needs healing and is above 75% and all mana restore in on CD