Scholar as healer??

[Prevbean]

I smell troll

[Rgbg]

reminds me of that blackmage in my party that kept aggroing mobs and when I let him die after the 3rd time his complaint went like this "Why does nobody ever get, that I'm attacking mobs that would attack us anyway??". This is clearly another case of "How someone always manages to make a 4-man group seem like you're trying to organize 40 people" or "4 DDs walk into a dungeon" or "They kept following me" as in "Sorry my ass is so fat, it just involuntarily aggroed these mobs from 600 yalms away". Your misconception puts you in the best company along with those gladiator tanks *press Flash* "There, you see, I totally tanked this group of mobs!" - *2dds and the healer get hit by mobs throughout the fight "Yeah, we can totally see that."

[Fenwick]

SCH is healer, SMN is DD. If you aren't playing them as such, you aren't playing them to their full potential.

[Iolair_Silverwing]

Ok, my bad. ;0 been doing fine keeping it DPS. The fairy does most of the healing anyway which is why I assumed I was to do DPS, but I must've been mistaken choosing ACN and seeing a WHM
PS. Not a troll post. Genuine question, if I was trolling I would've been like Rgbg, I was confused and sought advice. That's all

[DracotheDragon]

Scholar is a healing role

scholar is grate at healing one person at a time
White mage are grate at healing groups at a time

both togeaver are brilliant

i can understand a difficulty if it was your first time healing from switching from arcanist but you should of known leveling up Conjurer that it was a healing role


EDIT: also if you have done your scholar job missions the spells you gain are all healing based AND becoming a scholar increses your mind stat which makes your healing spells stronger

[Rydiah]

No no, Scholar is a healer. If you want to do dps get your THM to 15 and grab Summoner, they level up at the same time...so when I do dungeons I'll go Scholar, but if I'm questing or someone needs a DPS I'll go Summoner. Also, your hunting log won't change whether your an Arcanist, Summoner, or Scholar. I imagine if they add new jobs to the classes we have now, it'll be the same deal.

So yea...don't go into a dungeon as a Scholar expecting to dps.

[Unruhe]

Think of SMN and SCH as the "dual spec" feature from that other game. It would have helped drive the point home if all the base classes had two jobs (each serving a different role in a party) at launch, perhaps even at the cost of having fewer base classes until later.

[Keith_Dragoon]

Scholar is the healer, if you want DPS get Summoner. They both originate from ACN you just have to level a different sub job to unlock.

[Jynxii]

For what is is worth, your Fairy will pretty much carry the heals for a little while, (especially if you scale down to earlier dungeons), so it isn't entirely your fault for being under the impression you can still DPS. Don't worry though, in a few levels you'll need to almost exclusively heal, and around the level 47-50 range the fairy gets a case of poobrain and you have to start fumbling with the unintuitive controls to have it functioning.

Might be worth starting to get into the habit now (if you wish to pursue SCH) to have a keybind for Embrace and Place. If you Place your pet close to the tank/melee it'll 'auto-heal' much more reliably; just try to have it in a position that doesn't get hit by boss cleaves and such. You can use the pet UI for this, but I find it far quicker/more responsive to have it on a keybind. Also, in the case of Embrace, make sure you have the one that is appropriate to the pet you are using (Eos or Selene) for your keybind, as they are not universal.

[Azures]

IMO Scholar still has room for some improvements such as removing the passive int skill for passive mind etc