Scholar Healing Guide

[Valcutio]

***There is a bug with the AI where she will rarely fly off and aggro. I have only seen this to happen in HARD mode Ifrit, as soon as the barrier goes down she will immediately fly over to Ifrit and pull him, this is a bug.

This only happens if the arcanist "places" the fairy during the previous Ifrit fight and doesn't have her follow afterwards. The fairy has a good memory.

[Dijana]

This only happens if the arcanist "places" the fairy during the previous Ifrit fight and doesn't have her follow afterwards. The fairy has a good memory.

This is what I thought, but I place her every time during Ifrit and she's only done it to me once (she went to do it again another time but I saw her freaking out in the barrier and started spamming heel), so I was just leaving it ambiguous until I/we know for sure what it is, although that does seem most likely. Either way it's there to be a warning to watch the fairy at the start, it's not a good feeling to wipe everyone at once and have people think you did it intentionally ):

[erasure25]

Wow, thanks for this! I have read that if you have a Summoner in your party, they should be the one to raise since you will most likely be busy healing if someone has died (maybe something went wrong, a bad AOE or cone damage or something). Their pet and DOTs can continue doing damage while they take a moment to raise (and you can continue healing).

[Dijana]

Wow, thanks for this! I have read that if you have a Summoner in your party, they should be the one to raise since you will most likely be busy healing if someone has died (maybe something went wrong, a bad AOE or cone damage or something). Their pet and DOTs can continue doing damage while they take a moment to raise (and you can continue healing).

It is helpful if they would, but most of the time they don't, because they are DPS. The time it takes to say hey can you please raise, and then probably having to argue with them over why they should do it if they can (I've had to go through this a few times =_= ) its just better to do it yourself. Of course, before fights, by all means ask if they wouldnt mind raising if things get hairy, better to do so then, rather than mid battle.

[Riv]

Can't you just max INT and then use clerics stance?

[Dijana]

Can't you just max INT and then use clerics stance?

You could, if scholar's int and mnd started at the same base. Changing to sch gives it a large mnd boost, so maxing mnd will give a pretty big difference between mnd and int, and using cleric stance will obviously then switch to a large int stat. If you put everything into int, you're going to end up with them already being fairly equal and much lower than they should be.

[jojober]

You could, if scholar's int and mnd started at the same base. Changing to sch gives it a large mnd boost, so maxing mnd will give a pretty big difference between mnd and int, and using cleric stance will obviously then switch to a large int stat. If you put everything into int, you're going to end up with them already being fairly equal and much lower than they should be.

Not to mention Cleric's Stance has that 20% penalty to healing magic.

[Dijana]

Not to mention Cleric's Stance has that 20% penalty to healing magic.

That too Slipped my mind

[DeAlchymist]

The one piece of advice, (the absolutely most detrimental piece of advice that each SCH guide posted seems to forget to mention) and, imho, the most important piece of advice regarding SCH heals: protectiveness, you need to play very proactively. You are a mitigation/support healer with small, spammable heals and some shield mitigation utility compared to the WHM's raw direct healing power and there seemingly-more-benefit from Determination. This being said, and, (as I've seen so many SCH's do), you should not try to play "top-the-whole-group-off" as much as possible vs. a WHM. You won't win, ever. You need to have a very good sense of prediction if you plan to play SCH endgame as "Lustrate" won't always be around to save you in quickly-going-south situations. I have both a +1 relic WHM w/ DL/AF+1 and an SCH with 8/9 DL and a relic soon (3rd relic toon). I'm pretty familiar with both classes' strengths/weakness, pro's/conz and can give advice based on situation.

[ZeromusF]

One additional element that I think cannot be overlooked that helps you with situation awareness is your HUD. This goes for any class really, but more so for healers because unlike DPS or maybe even the tank, your focus is on everyone, including yourself.

--Optimize hotbar positioning to reduce move movement across the entire screen
--Optimize HUD layout so that important items are at eye level
--Keybind important pet functions (e.g. Embrace)
--Pay attention to line of sight and distance from teammates

Lastly, as a SCH -- I've found that I've messed up MOST when I've gotten too distracted applying DOTS too much. Priorities 1, 2 and 3 are healing, healing and more healing. If you start applying your std DOT rotation on a large pull ( 4 - 5 mobs) and the tank a huge burst of damage, you may have lost critical seconds to get him back in a safe range.
That's my 2 cents..