Start – 00:00
Changes From 5.0 – 00:38
New Skills – 01:19
Final Thoughts – 03:54
Fairy – 04:35
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Sorry uploaded the wrong render that has a mistake on Protraction! It is a single target cast on one person, not on the party!
Being a strong class is good especially to fit in the meta but most people would rather look flashy and cool and do a little bit worse and I think that's going to be a breaking point for a lot of people that aren't fully decided on if they want to play sch or sage.
The complaint about sch has always been about the "feel" of the class. I have no doubt that balance/number wise sch will be good, as it always has been, but it looks like they haven't improved the feel of it.
Protraction being an AoE would've actually been pretty hype; but alas, its single target. Still pretty good though; I imagine this will help SCH with those situations other healers could just throw 1 button heals onto. Speed Boost is going to get so many parties killed; and I await the vids of people wiping their groups by accident (on purpose).
That being said; the rest is pretty dire. More Broil-ing, Art of Slap the Floor 2.0, and the Fairy Gauge still feels like an unfinished mechanic. Sad to also hear the initial positive news on the Fairy AI may have also been a placebo. Hopefully its something that they can work on; but its been a problem since SCH's inception, so we'll see.
so, no difference between the fairies yet? i know there was originally, but they have a huge opportunity to change things up now. if they're backing away from the shield/regen healers, they could easily make one of the fai- selene, lets be real, a more offensive caster type with less potency heals and maybe debuff mobs or something. that way if two scholars enter a duty together, one can take a more DPS focused approach and easily be able to swap to the "pure" healer in a pinch.
I feel like the Fairy should have done a kamehameha
I think the quality of life changes (especially fairy responsiveness) will be nice. Certainly SCH feels pretty okay at LVL 80 even though it isn't particularly 'exciting' I still really prefer healing with SCH. I always feel like Fairy and I are the unseen hero in a dungeon or trial and people certainly notice us less because maybe we don't appear that impactful. But I certainly prefer (currently anyways) SCH over the other healers for myself. I'm excited to see how it feels, I hope it feels smoother. I appreciate the updates to the animations and colors (more appealing in my opinion), but I was really really hoping for more Fairy gauge usage which sadly we do not and Aetherpact is just boring :-/ Cool, but boring.
I don't know what they could have done exactly to make things more interesting for SCH, other than a personal bias of wanting Eos/Selene to upgrade into a giant beautiful fairy. But even then we have Seraph and she is certainly wonderful enough and I love my little fairy friends.
I don't think we will see many SCH especially with the addition of Sage, but also because the other two healers got pretty cool improvements or small reworks.
I don't expect SCH to change much as Endwalker unfolds in the coming years, but maybe if we're really lucky they'll do an overhaul in how it operates much like how SMN did and MNK did.
I just want to be able to interact with my fairy more at this point and give us a reason to use the Fairy gauge. Aetherpact just isn't particularly useful in its current iteration and I still forget it exists from time to time. Maybe it will be more useful in Endwalker and having the gauge JUST for Aetherpact will have a more noticeable effect (especially with the responsiveness of the fairy being improved).
Right now I'm torn and in two camps:
1. I'm glad SCH looks like it has smoothed out a bit. I'm glad that we have still strong shields, I don't mind the new abilities added. I like that the fairy is more responsive and I actually think the end gear looks fantastic this time around (I did like STormbloods iteration of scholar look though). I think SCH will play just fine and I'm sure I'll have a lot of fun.
2. I just wish we had more interactions with our fairy gauge and our fairy in general. We've always struggled with feeling and looking impactful, even though we are and are super useful. I'm a bit disappointed in that regards and if I see any changes that would be the change I'd personally want to push for. Eos/Selene are the unsung heroes. I wish SCH wasn't gutted and shafted as much as it has been over the years, and very little returned or compensated or given back. It has suffered alot from identity crisis. If it gets reworked in some way I just hope they help make our fairies shine a bit more and give us more interactions with our little friends. Some people like that aspect, and some people hate that aspect (prefer a more tactician/dps or whatever approach). I just was hoping I could have a Feo Ul type Eos/Selene (kind of like how SMN had behamut and now their primal summons in general). We will never get that, but I can certainly dream of seeing my little fairies all grown up as it were.
Overall, I think SCH will be just fine. But I think many of us will always be a little resentful and sad that the other healers are certainly a bit cooler and have more attention put into them.
I think Scholar is… Fine. I've played it since I started in Heavensward, it was the first class I started with in the game and I love the absolute shit out of it.
Like it does it's job, and the changes are good and seem like they'll be useful, they might even be very powerful and top tier under the right circumstances. The changes to the cast time of Broil is also pretty major, with SCH's OGCDs it's going to be very busted in a good way since they can weave in a lot of utility very fast with the new cast times. Being more mobile is also good, and less pet jank is good as well, even though I still feel like the fairy has a lot of annoying little problems that need to be ironed out.
Scholar is going to be fine, it'll probably still be a very powerful healer.
HOWEVER.
The class still feels ridiculously disjointed, it feels like they have all these neat ideas but nothing to really like solidify an identity; a fantasy if you will. Look at any other class and you can sort of see what they're going for, Redmage is a fancy show off who wants to show you just how much magic from every type of magic he can do. Warrior is an axe wielding berserker who will wear you down before you wear him down. Ninja is a fleet footed shadow warrior who blasts people with their naruto magic and stabs them with daggers all in the span of a couple of seconds.
But Scholar? Like I used to feel like Scholar was the tactician of the group who would come up with plans and strategies to make sure that the team succeeded and performed at their best. The one who not only had information on all the enemies but the other classes as well and knew just what to do to make everyone perform at their best. But as time goes on that just feels like less and less of the case, sure they have skills that sort of emulate that fantasy but the way you play just does not convey that at all where as you can play any other class and sort of feel the fantasy that they're putting out. A lot of the skills you have don't work together and the ones that do usually work together in such stilted ways that you don't really have a good path to utilize them. You constantly are pressing multiple buttons to do what other healers can do with just one or two buttons, and the class just has no flow or style to it.
I like comparing most classes to a genre of music, like I see White Mage as Indie Folk playing these sort of comfortable wooden instruments, I sorta see Astrologian as a kind of spacey new wave genre like something Daft Punk might have played, and I used to see SCH as a sort of Jazz, smooth but in your face as they sort of style on you. I still see SCH as a sort of Jazz type class but now the Jazz is Freeform and performed by people who don't really know what Freeform is but sort of heard it a couple of times before and can kind of do it if you listen with only one ear.
I dunno, SCH is probably going to be solid, I don't doubt that it will. It has been pretty solid through SHB, it was solid in SB, and HW as well, there's never really been a point that the class has been unplayable, it's just that lately the class has felt clumsy and frustrating to play and these changes haven't really done much to alleviate the feeling that the class has become a sort of clumsier nerdier version of it's former self.
It's also very disheartening to see the other healers get all these flashy cool effects and none of our skills seem to ever seem to get a very fun visual look to them, the capstone is an aoe sprint with some damage reduction. Like, if you really think about it does that seem like it should be a capstone ability? Shouldn't the capstone be something that looks awesome and impressive, something that really puts makes the other classes feel a little jealous that they're not playing scholar? Like I'm sure the Sprint will be great, I'm sure that there's gonna be some strats that really utilize it, I'm sure that it'll also save a lot of lives for people that might be out of position when an aoe starts to go off. I don't doubt that it'll see it's use… It just doesn't impress me that much.
I feel like that one Scene in the Charlie Brown Halloween Special where all the kids are talking about all those cool candies that they got and the camera pans to us and everyone's like "What did you get SCH?"
"I got a sprint."
Changes are fine. You can’t really fix what ain’t broke
Ok crossing my fingers before watching the vid hope it's good XI
Edit after watching, yeah nothing exciting sadly
Thanks for making this video. And I think your right scholar has a lot of
Impactful stuff, but none of its flashy and non of it feels impactful for you as the player. Fey union , chain strat , and now the movement speed, I feel like are just use and forget kinda skills. Nothing that’s actively flashy or cool while the buff is on .
Honestly I was nervous as a scholar main going into endwalker but this helped to ease my fears. Thank you.
Why are they blind. How the fuck did they not make scholar the same as summoner but healing summons. Been playing this 3 months and I picked arcanist because of scholar=wow dis priest and summoner which I thought I would be summoning. So disappointed. Summoner turned about to be a shit wow warlock. Finally endwalker fixed summoner and made it a ff summoner. Very excited for that. Still dont understand why scholar doesnt just use summones to heal instead of a shit pet.
Best Trait – Healer queue to level Summoner
So the main issues with SCH remain, Aetherpact is the only skill that uses the Fairy Gauge again and the only new skills are Thrill of Battle and Temperance. So nothing really to look forward to for SCH.
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Will scholar be as overly exciting and flashy as Sage? no. Will it be still strong where it matters? Absolutely. it's just more of what made scholar strong.
STRIDER'S BOOTS AND EXPEDIENCE GIVE 75% SPRINT UPTIME IN CITIES.
I would've either removed Arts of War or make it at least an ranged AoE spell
(like the other Healer classes got). Then shift the DoT spells/Bane removed
from Summoner to this class.
RN, the feel of the class is very hampered to me, mainly due to its somewhat
slow gameplay and heavy GCD reliance aside from Aetherstack skills.
I wonder if SCH will ever get its "prime time",
it feels so forgotten IMHO in the balancing department, dunno what else to say.
God bless you SCH mains, you're essentially playing Healer Hard mode
and managing the challenge.
Want to add a major correction here. At 4:00 you state that Sage is using an extra second to boost its base spells – I assume this to be a reference to Eukrasia. Eukrasia itself is a 1 second GCD, yes, but all the Eukrasia-boosted spells have a 1.5s recast, so you don't actually use up extra time with it overall, it's just an extra button press.
IMO, Misshapen Chair's video about scholar about a week ago provides one of the most succinct summaries of what some wish they would "fix" about scholar.
Scholar dps is soooo boring >.< Can't we have cool flashy dps like the other healers?