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Here are my first impressions for Scholar at level 90!
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Intro – 0:00
Fey’s Temperance – 0:40
The Fairy (Eos/Selence) – 1:10
Deployment Tactics – 2:34
Protraction – 3:25
Expedient – 4:05
Adloquium (Enhanced Healing Magic) – 4:55
Ruin 2 – 5:30
Art of War 2 – 6:05
Aetherflow – 6:34
Cast Time Reduction – 7:00
New Seraph – 7:45
Dissipation – 8:17
Embrace + Seraphic Veil – 9:02
Outro – 9:35
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Pet Potency: Looks to be around 90% instead of 95%.
Leveling SCH this weekend. This will be my bible.
Scholar feels so good to play now.
adlo shields are registered so fast and the responsive fairy is just chef’s kiss
and Expedient is such a fun ability, can’t wait to use the new kit in Ex and Savage. ❤️
Great video, and I share much of the surprise / glee about how much better it feels to play – and I think many people are sleeping on it. Doing the normal trials, I've had several players say, "I take back everything I said about expedient". And that felt pretty good 🙂 although I worry about not having a strong burst heal like Sage. As it is, I would be surprised if Expedient wasn't changed in the future, maybe something like a group wide Excogitation (which would tie in well with the other healers lvl90 skills) – Expedient can honestly feel absurd sometimes. And the fact there are still forced marches is the game has me concerned :p
A few great things I feel didn't get a lot of mention:
Energy Drain's recast to 1sec is not a huge change, but feels nice with the Broil change, and if we need to dump them fast, there's no risk of clipping.
Fairy abilities were neutralized / balanced with pet scaling, but embrace did not get this rebalance and was directly buffed to 180 with the new scaling.
The shielding improvement helps Succor during a boss raid wide cast time. Far too many times prior to endwalker, the shield delay would cause the raid wide to ignore it, and you end up having a your team at 10% health with a shield. I know ideally you should phase out Succor, but for prog, I do feel there is a time and place for it. Getting to enrage what I try to get my groups to, and optimize from there. And succor can allow a group to consistently see more of a fight. And during the new multi-stack aoe marker, I feel it's extremely effective, say if your co-healer is dead.
Really love your vids Momo, and just giddy at having a place to discuss these changes 🙂 Thank you! for making these!
Wait a second. You said that SCH is a job that didn't need much change going into Endwalker at about 10:05. Are you serious about that? That made me discount your commentary for the whole video, sorry.
When literally every other content creator that plays SCH (and me, SCH main since 2015) is screaming at the devs for SCH to get a complete rework, I can't really call your opinion unbiased if you think that "SCH is a job that didn't need much change going into Endwalker"
Other than that, I love your content.
The 1.5s GCD Broil is a massive buff to SCH because its the only healer with so many oGCD to weave, you can now rely more on your Fairy due to this, and she's more responsive. The huge shield buffs make it so powerful with crit Adlo deploy too.
I thought they massacred my boy. Turns out they made him tons better. I was upset that they changed almost nothing. But it was a bunch of little changes that really improved scholar. The 1.5 sec cast times made him crazy versatile. Ruin 2 makes him mobile in a way that the other healers only dream of. Protraction is an amazing buff. Expedient gets memed on but I always new it was gonna be good when I learned more about it. Adlo applying instantly feels so good. Eos being so snappy feels amazing. I used to hate fey union. Thought it was useless. Now with so much weaving space I can use it wherever with no dps loss. I actually use it when needed now. All this little things really add up to make scholar great again. Miasma 2 is still on my wish list tho.
Edit: and yes. Art of War 2's animation is much better. I personally think Broil IV's animation is a marked improvenent.
I am so happy we were all proved wrong about new sch, I am loving sage but I am inclined to say that sch is better, at shielding at least.
Certain skills make me think also that sch/sge comp could work, but it seems that ast/sch remains king from what I see. Havent done ex doe.
I’m more focused on seeing Neru . This was a really great video though can’t wait to try SCH!
i still miss my 3 DoTs. 🙁
I feel the same way, this is the most fun I've had with the job since Stormblood. The Broil cast time is huge for weaving. And the fairy reaction time is pretty damn good as well. Just those 2 things makes the job feel so much better, and that's before you factor in all the new traits and skills.
I love SGE, but god damn I miss my Excog… not only that I feel it is sooooo much easier to do wall to wall pulls on SCH than it is on SGE and I am not entirely sure why. Anyone else experiencing this?
If you listen to the last like 4-5 words of every sentence he says it has exactly the same tone and delivery, kinda funny to notice. Great guide regardless
A couple of thing I noticed while paying SCH, but haven't corroborated.
The shield UI applies before it is actually considered to block damage. I critlo'd a tank who had on HP, and he died to an auto. I think, timing wise, it's the same as ShB, but now the icon of Galvanize/Catalyze and the yellow bar appears before the shield "applies." I think this is for spreadlo reasons. Has anyone else experienced this? Or am I just having funky net issues?
I believe, one time at least, that the Catalyze shield got eaten before the Galvanize. I don't think I was succoring. Need to play around with this more to confirm. Tanks have so many icons next to them now it's hard to tell these days.
you never fail to amaze me on how much you know and can show you do on healing and endgame stuff myo myo <3
I'm still going to meme on Expedient, but I'm glad my OG job is doing better now!
I'm looking forward to your analysis of Sage. So far I'm enjoying it immensely, though Eukrasia takes a while to get used to.
Where scholar is heavy mitigation, I'm finding SGE to be more about smoothing out damage, which I'm still not used to, and it requires the tank to know what they're doing to be effective in dungeons.
I've not taken it through a raid proper, yet.
Planning to level my scholar later & compare the two.
Just got my tank to max and finishing up the MSQ, as Scholar will be what I power level first I'm looking forward to hearing about them
phlegma balls lmao
SCH feels better than sage to me shields are better and I’ve had numerous times when that running skill came in handy lol.
@momo is seraphic veil and consolation also nerfed in EW? As in, back in shb i swear they would refresh their duration with each application regardless of potency. eg. The second consolation would always refresh the shield duration with new shields. Now it seems they got the succor/galvanize effect and will only write over the existing shield if it's stronger than the previous. This affects the second consolation a lot more since you can no longer confortably refresh the last shielding duration.
I am glad it feels fine, but it is just that: fine. Dissipation still works against the SCH kit as a whole and SCH is the only healer to be locked out of its skill thusly. Instead of relying on a dissipation energy drain combo to do a small amount of additional dps it would be nice to have a button that did not work against SCH's kit that was an "oh shit" button, and a dps skill that could be used regardless of aetherflow as other healers, again, do not need to sacrifice healing capability to use burst tools (Something like Phlegma with charges and a CD, another note: SCH has had the ability Meltdown before and this would be a great place for it). Over all, it is fine, but there is much room for improvement to have a cohesive class.
My main. Im a great scholar
Thank you for this vid!
Love ur knowleghe that u bring up in every video. Keep the great work up and enjoy Endwalker!
I wish I could excitedly talk about Dark Knight in Endwalker, but seeing as the 90 capstone is just Flood of Shadow 2.0 it feels kinda half baked. Not to mention Salt and Darkness came at the cost of Carve and Spit's CD being tied to Abyssal Drain. That and there's no amount of lore videos I can make to hype up a skill like Oblation! But, wonderful work as ever my friend!
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The fairy healing whoever has highest aggro would actually be so insane. But why would SE not want the fairy to have focused embraces??
It's tragicomic how little relevance most of the discussion of Scholar's abilities are to what it does most of the time: casting Broil.
I've split the healers into two again, dungeon vs raid. Where I will take WM and SG in dungeons and ASTR and SCH in raids.
Expedient feels extremely good, and in large pulls, Scholar can manage over 1 minute of 10% damage reduction, which feels great.
I had briefly touched SGE however, and using fairy abilities with you as the centre of it feels SO much better.
Do I still need to place the fairy?
If Momo is overall happy, I'm overall happy
Wow, you got to 90? I still can't even f$$@@ing login.
Overall I think I’m happy with the scholar they released. The 2 issues I have have are just dissipation anti synergy within its self and I really wish fey union followed the person I put it on 😂.
Oh one thing I noticed about crit shields. Is the catalyst goes first when taking damage instead of galvanize. So you can crit shield, and deploy and not worry about galvanize being weaker.
They also removed the range of a lot of Fairy Skills like Whispering Dawn, Fey Illumination, Fey Blessing and Consolation. I think now it will always hit everyone in the party at maximum range. (Now that I think about it, this can be a description bug too… Need some testing)Edit: This is a Mistake, they show the range on the pet skills but not on actual skills. (I didn't realize it was like this before)
My main complaints are we have far and away the fewest DPS options and no way to pick ourselves back up after we get rezzed.
SCH’s job fantasy is that of a military mage, and it shares the namesake of a Black and White hybrid caster from a FF title.
So it’s particularly egregious that we’re the worst healer at DPS and the fact we’re the only healer that basically REQUIRES aftercare if we die just adds insult to injury.
I cannot tell you how many times I’ve died right after being rezzed because of the sheer number of buttons I had to press to get back into the fight. No power healing oGCDs mean I have to hope my cohealer will save me.
haven't finished msq yet.. but, Ive been digging SGE. However, watching this, hearing your credible thoughts.. think Ill get that SCH up now as well. SCH has been my go to for at least a year, and these changes sound delightful. thank for a so0lid resource video!
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