FFXIV Shadowbringers: How to Scholar in Dungeons 

2:15 - #1: ALWAYS "Adlo" the tank before every pull ("deployment tactics" usage included). 2:55 - #2: ALWAYS use "Dissipate" at the end of pulls if you have no use for it. 3:26 - #3: Use "Fey Union" to its fullest effect. 4:30 - #4: Use "Sacred Soil" ... . 5:02 - #5: Use "Recitation" on cooldown. 5:36 - #6: Use "Whispering Dawn & "Fey Illumination" (examples included). 6:21 - #7: How to handle "Seraph". 7:12 - #8: "Lustrates" are important! 7:32 - #9: Use "Chain Strategem" during pulls. 8:01 - #10: Use "Lucid Dreaming" properly (around 8000 MP). 8:35 - #11: Do big pulls if you can. 9:25 - Talking about heal plans for dungeon, pull types of dungeons and skill spacing. 13:25 - Final words and some reminders.

using Dissipation in between pulls - best ever tip I ever gotten for SCH, made my day 👍😄 thank you, sir

The nice thing about the minimal changes to Scholar in EW is that this video is still full of really good advice. Would love to see an addendum on usage of Expedient and Protraction in trash packs.

Thank you for this video Momo! I always thought of myself as a pretty decent Scholar but this gave me a few things to try myself that I hadn't thought of before. I'm hoping to slowly implement some of your ideas as you suggested at the end of the video and become an even more beneficial member of my parties :)

I've been struggling healing the new level 80 dungeons. I tried your tips and it helped a lot. Less panic, more time dpsing, smoother runs. Thanks for the advice!

We need more great healer guides like yours. I never found any comprehensive healer guides until now. You make it easier to understand and explain methods with great patience. I am excited about an Eden savage healer guide explaining the methods and preventing such mistakes.

A lot of really good tips (pre-Adlo-ing yourself for an easy deploy is some galaxy brain 300 IQ stuff) though my favorite part are the heal plans. Health care coverage is available, please consult a Scholar for more details!

thank you so much momo! i was having a hard time grasping healing with sch after the changes but think i understand it way better now!

Thank you very much! I just finished my SCH to 80, I didn't struggle in dungeons at all but this video taught me a few things I didn't even know. I did panic sometimes and use a few too many Adlos during large pulls but mostly that was me not trusting the tank to remember his CD's. (Which happens alot with new tanks who think they are comfortable wall to wall pulling) ..... Great video and highly reccommended! I second @James Martin's comment. Dissipation between pulls BESTTIP! Never thought of that.

As an experienced raider on tank, but new to healing and SCH, this is an amazingly useful guides. So many simple basic tips that are not very obvious for new SCH's such as self-adlo deployment or end-of-pull dissappation, as well as amazing advice on healing itself! Great guide, thanks!

Life-changing guide, thank you so much! Before I felt like a scholar with no research funding, but now I feel like I got a grant and unlocked the true way to play scholar!!

I really appreciate all the content you've posting Momo. Really means a lot for casual players and players looking to optimize in general, such as myself. Even as someone who has used scholar since heavensward, I learned quite a lot from this video. I admit I should be deploying more for pulls lol. Its just efficient and accounts for aoe damage (or people not dodging). Thank you again for all the work you do for the community.

I'm actually using a lot more of my skills this expansion, was skeptical when seeing the changes at first but I'm really enjoying my Scholar now.

Thank you so much for these. I just hit 50 on SCH as main and I'm looking forward to digging into the mechanics (although I'm questioning playing the most proactive healer when it's my first time in these dungeons!)

Thanks. These were some killer tips. Never thought of some of these and I appreciate it!

I never even thought of putting adloquim on myself and then spreading the shield to the party...same with using Dissipation between pulls. This is a great video thank you!

Clear and concise information presented. Keep up the good work.

Dude this video was amazing! I main smn but have been playing sch due to healer queues so I have issues in the post 80 dungeons but this video will help me tons! Thanks again

Gonna be sharing this with my sch friends who have been having issues in dungeons with mp. Thank you as always.

Dude. Thank you so much. I just got whm 80 and went to take sch from 71 up an I was struggling to do big pulls. I could not figure out exactly how the kits synergy but this video helped me so much to understand it! Thank you!

Just found this after having a big conversation about how my healing was worse than an NPC in the trust. Your use of art of War is also different than I was playing - I was far back doing broil so your tips AND video were so helpful. Thank you so much! Coming back two expansions past I couldn't believe how different it feels, I can't wait to give some of these a try

Wow, thank you. I’m doing a sch main for this expansion and didn’t think or see some of these tips.

Awesome video. It helped me a ton in understanding how to use the kit in dungeons as someone new to scholar and FFXIV.

This is a really helpful guide. Awesome job and thank you :)

I've watched this video so many times since it's come out and always end up taking something new it's such a good video

I'm a newer healer and only got sch to 70 via smn but this guide got me wanting to get 80 smn via sch 😄😄

This guide is helping me out understand scholar soooo much better. I haven’t had to touch physick in so many runs just through smarter preemptive gameplay.

Exactly what I was looking for. Great job! Thanks!

Yo, I've never thought of using dissipation between pulls, thanks!

Thanks for the video! I recently got back into playing Scholar and this helped me a lot!

As someone who is still leveling scholar and is playing it as their first healer I have a few things to say; it really surprised me how well I could handle bigger pulls that I did not think I was ready for. I did not have the confidence to do big pulls, but absolutely had the tools to make it work. Yes it got a little crazy at times but if no one is dead then I say it went alright, even if it could have gone better. If you are new to healing but have a decent understanding of the game, don't be afraid of some bigger pulls. You won't know if you are or aren't ready until you try them. Good luck and have fun everyone!

Just coming back to the game after a long break, this video helped a ton, thanks man

As a healer main I lvl all the healers. My main is astro which is 80, next is whm and then scholar. So this video is pure amazing to have before I level them up so thank you! Also even though I leveled up my Astro you taught me something I didn't realize which was the benefit of using sleeve draw with light speed.

Thank you so much for making this video. I just got into Shadowbringers as SCH recently and found a recurring problem where my tank was dying during double pulls and I couldn't heal them fast enough to keep them alive. Now I'm realizing I was trying to DPS too much and it was probably slowing everything down. This is a great advice video and I will continue to reference it as I move through ShB content.

This was a super useful video! I kept wiping a party last night cause I was trying to heal and dps...so the advice at the end hit home.

The last time I used SCH for actual content was way back in Coil Turn 5. With each expansion, SCH became more and more daunting for me to learn how to play properly as I was often changing jobs to fill in for raid groups. I recently started to level it again and my first Holminster run was a harrowing experience. Perhaps it was also due to the tank mass pulling without using CDs, but I knew that I was doing something wrong. This video popped up just at the right time. The use of Dissipation and what abilities to pair with on each pull worked wonders. Just hit 73 but I'm already more confident in healing. Thank you for making this vid~

Relatively new to FFXIV and healing (started in May). Levelled Summoner / Scholar. This is incredibly helpful. Thank you. I almost never use Dissipate because the fairy is so useful and never thought to use it at the end of pulls. Fantastic advice all around.

I really like this video, I'm new to FFXIV and I'm trying out scholar and that tip to use Adloquiem pre pull saves me so much stress haha. Thank you!!!

Damn these are some extremely useful tips, I am especially impressed by the Deployment Tactics to get a 2nd free shield one. Thanks mr Momo

You are a legend. I switched to sch from mnk and i was not doing half of these things and somehow managing to heal decent sized pulls. Thanks man

Was just thinking someone should make a guide like this. Thank you!

WOOT! I've been doing it right lol But I've NEVER thought to use Dissipation that way, wow... nice tip

"DO BIG PULLS" 8:47 The sight almost gave me a heart attack. Anyway, after switching between WHM and AST for 2 years now, I decided to give SCH a try. Reaching ShB dungeons now, the new skills are more of a head scratcher for me as I start to realize the job plays a lot differently than the other two healers. On my own, I thought I still do ok as SCH but something just doesn't feel right. I understand how to effectively use my skills now thanks to this guide. Can't wait to try your tips out. ✨💪

thank you very much for the guide, I have no idea how to play with sch so this will help me a bunch

Omggggggg I’ve been trying my hardest on sch and still so clunky as opposed to my 80 WHM and AST. I was just barely missing something I couldn’t put my finger on. That dissipate between pulls is an extra 3 aether I needed to be more fluid. And that self adlo deploy. Genius. Because 99.9% of the time the tank is by themselves and not around anyone to share it to. I don’t feel so scared on SCH anymore. Thank you! 💖🥰

I've heard the adage "SCH oGCD is so powerful you should never have to cast a heal" for so long but I could never get it to work.. Thank you so much for this video, the timeline of your skill usage at the top was *especially* useful to see what was actually happening. Holy moly I have so much homework to do to try to get better now. Thank you!

Amazing vid, lots of very good tips! Do you have a video setting up your specific setup for your damage meter and ability usage? I have seen other vids, but I haven’t bothered getting it since others are so base. But I really like yours!

Me before shb: ah I'll slap an excog on tank and call it a day Me after : shit uh .. I have to heal ? 😂

This video is about to help so much, I’m gonna be leveling SCH for the first time and I have no idea what I’m doing lmao

I'm late to this video, but this has been a tremendous help! Thank you.

This video helped me understand the scholar kit a lot thank you

Tanks tend to pull to the wall....and in those scenarios I find myself having to spam adlo/physik and not much I can do to avoid it. One group at a time I can dps but wall pulling I end up having to gcd heal most of the time with excog/lustrate to keep up. Even with all the preparation tanks tend to drop like rocks. Like full to dead in like 3 seconds

the tip about deploying adlo off yourself wasn't something i had thought of xD And I'm guilty of not using chain during mobs :/ very nice vid, thnx o/

Awesome Guide! This definitely helps as a returning player.

This video is golden even to this day. I recently got into healing and my SCH is just level 49 for now, and I feel a little scared whenever I look at the abilities window... but I want to try and learn 😊

Great video! Gonna save this for when I level my SCH a little more.

This guide SAVED MY ASS. Thank you so much!!!

Still have Bane mapped I see? Feelsbadman Also, what's that like "timeline" looking overlay at the top btw?

I’m loving this videos man

Though I did quite a bit of this already, there was lots that was new to me and should help me improve, thanks

Nice, I thought I was a pretty good healer but I never even considered adlo myself + deploy or using dissipate. So good tips for even "experts"

thanks to the balance discord for linking me this video, i legit have no idea how should i use dissipation since it takes away my fairy and i feel a bit too scared to use some of the ogcd because of the long CD

Super helpful, even in Endwalker, thanks! I've been maining tank since late ARR and I wanna try some strange/have always been scared of healing (hardest class imo), much appreciate.

Just want to say thanks. I've been playing 6 months, but stopped healing and switched to dps at level 70 dungeons, I just couldn't do it. The final straw was after i read lots of guides and it was still suggested that I needed to read some guides. 😱 Someone linked this video in a fb group, I only watched half to work on that section first, but I started getting "good heals" comments and today I cleared a level 80 dungeon. 😍 Still lots to learn and practise, but thanks so much. Also yes I realise this is 2 years old but still very powerful help, thanks again.

This is precisely what i wanted, thank you

Thanks for reminding me of Deployment Tactics. I kinda forgot about it's existence when Eye for an Eye was removed..

Excellent video. I've been loving SCH, and theres some nice little things you said that i had no idea about, which further extends my love for the job. Do you think you could make a short video about melding stats on the healers? I have all healrs at 80, but mostly playing sch/whm ofc. I have 2.4k crit on sch and im not sure if thats too much, or if i should meld more ]:

One tip. Communicate with your tank. I always see tanks who just run pull a huge group and not use one defensive cooldown. I typically focus target the tank just to see if they are playing correctly.

Amazing video, thanks for making it

Dungeon optimization POG

fantastic vlog btw Momo !

Momo senpai is awesome! I just got back to FF, what materias are recommended for Scholar?

I feel like there's something I'm still missing to totally understanding how SCH is supposed to work now after all the 5.0 changes, but part of that is changing my own way of thinking and just practicing. But this guide really gave me the first steps I need to figuring that out, so thanks. I need to watch the stuff on Seraph again because I still really trip up on how the hell I'm supposed to use her best.

I like this video :)

Great video, i was considering leveling a scholar, now i'm certain. Would you please share the link with all those DG pulls/boss/wall indications.

Hey really nice video, very helpful. Please whats the name of the dps meter you have there ?

Very informative video! Can you do one for AST and WHM too?

The more I play new Scholar, the more I realize how amazing these new abilities would have been with our old kit. Seriously, if they had just kept Scholars kit the same (keeping the Critlo Nerf) and given us these new abilities it would have been hands down the best iteration of the job ever. Energy Drain and Dissipation would have felt super amazing, Miasma II would have been a slick damage weaver for how the new healing works; you would have had a legit choice between using Shadowflare and SS that would have been awesome, and Seraph with Single Target macro's still available would have been crazy intense awesome. While I am working with what I have and can appreciate some of the changes, I just feel like Scholar got unnecessarily pruned Playstyle wise for no real reason. (I dont care about potencies and this and that, I care about the jobs flow and hierarchy of abilities, which just now devolves into mash oGCD's)

I try to adlo before every pull but tanks now sprint before the last enemy dies.

As a new player this is helping me so much with scholar thanks!

Really good video. Thank you

Question on the timing of deployment tactics off yourself: once it deploys it only lasts as long as was left on the adlo I did on myself right? So in the case you're saying just use it as a quick ogcd shield? Seems like the tanks I play with health bars get nuked so quickly. I hope the way I asked the question makes sense.

Thanks for this!

I'm a fairly new player, and I've mostly tanked and played some DPS, but I've been interested in doing all four Role Quests in Shadowbringers, so I've been leveling Scholar. This video is fascinating, informative, and well-thought out... but I'm really intimidated by healing, and this just reinforces that. Tanking always strikes me as relatively easy -- know the fight, keep control of everything, use your defense cool downs wisely, pull as much as you can handle but no more, and keep your damage numbers up. Healing, on the other hand -- to begin with, it emphasizes knowing the fight from a completely different direction. It requires you to keep track of not only mechanics and damaging the enemy, but also the health of everyone else in the party. It can vary wildly depending on your party -- if the tank misses a cooldown or one of the DPS keeps standing in the fire, you have to notice that and react or even predict their actions. And failure on the other jobs just seems more recoverable than for healing -- if you DPS poorly, the fight takes longer; if you don't pick up an enemy right away as tank you can grab it as soon as you notice, and if you use your cooldowns poorly the healer might be able to cover for you. If you fumble as a healer, someone probably dies. And, of course, actually getting practice as a healer requires making three or seven other players depend on you. DPS and Tanks can learn a lot of their most important skills with solo practice. If it weren't for your bit at the end about 'only do what you're comfortable with,' I might be intimidated out of healing altogether. There was definitely some really good advice in there, some of which I've absorbed and will be making use of, but then I look at your pre-mapping out healing rotations for each step of a dungeon and I just sort of cower in fear at the complexity. Still, I'm only level 50 so far. I'm going to keep at it, and keep looking in at this video as I level, and hopefully I'll be ready to take more of it in each time... if I have the confidence, at least. Keep up the good work!

Really great guide. I dont have issues doin most of the Wall 2 Wall pulls , but sometimes i cant keep up cause my heal plan got screwed by a Tank that uses Sprint + gap closer to pull . Is it just me or do you have and Tipps zo Deal with that?

Was getting through big pulls okay but def made it more stressful on myself than I needed to.

As a SCH main gotta say this is pretty good of a rundown of how to effectively use the Aetherflow. Only thing I have noticed that was understated in this is assuming the tanks will mitigate for pulls, i have found that most tanks won't anymore because healers are only supposed to be healing now. (Except them DRKs who fear for their lives and like to show off TBN). Also great Dissipation tip

would love a scholar guide for raids/trials shadowbringer version :)

Hey Momo! Do u think that the addition of an aetherflow dumb that would give us a 10 second buff allowing our next 2 broils to be an instacast would be a good idea?I think it solves 2 of my issues right now.1.having aetherflow left and 2.having more space to weave. And even if its not needed for weaving it could be used to move without losing on broils.

As someone newer to healing who has been enjoying the SCH playstyle, thank you. Your videos and expertise have been quite invaluable. Sidenote; what plugin is that at the top displaying your button presses?

thanks for the tips! what mods are you using on this video?

This is a great guide, but it is most useful for high level (56+) Scholars. This information matters little when you are below that level since you do not have access to DT, ET, Dissipation, etc.

Man, this actually makes me want to gear up and play my sch. So mad i never thought of the dissapation thing

Great Video!

As a WHM main for years leveling scholar for the first time (lvl75). I don't know how you have the time to dps. I can barely keep the tank alive spamming Aldo, using all the faerie spells, when he pull wall to wall. :( :(

What plugin do you use to monitor the gcd/ogcds used? My biggest issue is trying to do double-weaves and feel like im constantly clipping

Nice vid ^^ But what are your macros and where to find them? They seem handy.

Ok really need to know how you got the scrolling rotation up there lol

Hey good sir! May I know what you are using to display the spells you cast with the nice timeframe on top of your screen? Pretty please and thank you! It looks super neat!

Is it still necessary to plant your faerie using the place command to maximize the healing on the faerie?