Scholar Changes - Dawntrail Media Tour FFXIV 

Half of the media tour takes ive heard are "I hated scholar and now I hate it more" and the other half are "I love scholar and now I love it more". This is the kind of job identity pushing they'll be doing in 8.0, please look forward to it 😊

Ngl, those changes are fire. I really don't like Seraphism's look but it is what it is for getting such a good ability, I guess.

I'm so glad that an actual healer main went to the media tour. Thank you for these vods, they're great!

Bro seraphism is gonna be insane for prog and saving runs

my 2 things. for scholar. 1. seraphism is cool and i like it my only worry is the mana costs being the same despite it feeling like something you want to spam. 2. dissipation is just a weird skill for scholars kit and im confused on its purpose. we use it for energy drain spam, but it wants to be used like a emergency heal button thing but idk. Seraphism feels like the better version of dissipation and i just want to see it changed.

yeah; still not feeling that weird angel bath robe form. Could they not have come up with something cooler/more on brand for SCH? also still strange to tie our new AoE DoT behind Chain Strategem. Makes me wonder if they decided to do that because they were looking at its usage in dungeons and thought they could get players to use it on more than just bosses?

For being the HW capstone for SCH, Dissipation is very underwhelming of a healing buff. You lose your fairy and all its utility and get a moderate healing gcd buff and full Aetherflow. For prog, I don't think I've ever hit Dissipation for healing purposes. I also feel that Fey Union and Summon Seraph are just better at healing. Fey Union upgrades Eos's heal from 200 to 500 in exchange for focusing it on one target while Seraph's heals all give a shield and it has an aoe ogcd heal/shield. I fear that the only thing Dissipation is used for is parsing, since it gives 3 more uses of Energy Drain. I think they should rework Dissipation.

Wake me up when they bring back Shadowflare ;w;

Dissipation is still in the kit. And the jump rope is still the only way to use your gauge? ... Why?

Ooooh, I might not be playing painter through dawntrail. Scholar's looking very nice.

So in a nutshell, SCH remains mega stronk but awkward and Dissipation is still the "why do we have this" button.

SCHOLAR GANG STAY WINNING "What damage???"

I mean for me dissipation is more like everything else failed button like a last ditch effort if people are just taking way too much damage that it drained all of your other resources (cuz it can happend in raids that people just take too much damage some times)

this all feels like some nice QoL improvements for Sch, without losing the strategist vibe that the class seems to be focused on. I still wish I could have a dummy "oh shit" heal or shield right up front the way the other classes feel like they have, but seraphism does a lot for us and our shields already do so much. I like seeing slightly more variety in our DPS, too. I don't think this would have been my choice of design direction, but I feel less forgotten than I did as a sch main in EW.

I could totally see Seraphism getting an upgrade down the line into something like Invoke Titania or something.

The scholar changes just look so interesting and I'm very intrigued to play it.

After the wound that was done to SMN, it makes me very happy to see one of my book boys knocking it out of the park. SCH looks amazing, and will absolutely be my main healer going into Dawntrail.

does the transformation into Seraphism just throw out our WoL's character entirely? it looks as if you just become some generic hyur woman on every pov i've seen. extremely disappointing if so.

Did anyone realized how emergency tactics make Acession (seraphism succor mode) heal for 672 potency at instant cast, and manifestation (seraphism adlo mode) heals for over 1k potency also at instant speed? also, correct me if i'm wrong, but manifestation should also apply the same type of shield so recitation should make the shielder even stronger than it already is.

if I understand correctly, you can't use recitation during seraphism because adlo changes to manifestation?

Now that I've seen a bunch of these videos, I'm actually curious how many different versions of this intro did you record? I've heard slight differences in a few of them when I would have expected it to just be one version that was used over and over again.

I'm interested to see if they will EVER change how Dissipation works. Its my biggest gripe about SCH and Ive been playing it since HW. The issues with Dissipation only get compounded when they add more and more skilles based around the fairy. Not to mention, there are STILL issues with fairy responsiveness and dropped abilities between Serpah>Eos and vice versa. With DT, we are now at... what... 6? Abilities that we lose every time we hit Dissipation? Not to mention the lack of fairy gauge earned and no Embraces for the whole 30 seconds of Dissipation buff. I might enjoy the 20% healing buff, but when like half of my kit is locked, it feels more like a gamble in prog than an asset. It feels worse to use in places like Ultimates because instead, I have to painfully work around it rather than feeling it's another tool in my arsenal. Sorry for the rant, but you're the only video I've seen that addressed any of these issues. 😢

banger vid

seraphism is going to be crazy for prog. they better design some absolute bullshit in the eden ultimate so i get to be silly with it

AOE Dot... I'm happy about that! Seraphism looks crazy too! Don't really like the wings it gives our characters but I think they look better than the WHM wings which are a bit big and goofy when moving around

All I really wanted for sch was the return of Bane. Having to manually target each enemy in a trash pull and toss our one DoT on them is a pain. Now we sorta got it back I guess? Being locked behind a 2 minute cooldown ability really sucks, but I feel like that massive potency needed some kind of nerf. I just miss the days where sch had to manage the DoTs while the fairy did most of the primary healing and we just made that possible with our shields. I feel like they still aren’t sure what to do with the job with the incompatibility issues with things like dissipation.

Now I don't know what healer to main. I was on sage in EW but wanted to switch to scholar or astro for DT. Both seem to be getting really cool skills, I''m a little torn, I might juggle them both at this point

I loved the new stuff, but WHY IS DISSIPATION STILL THE SAME ??? T^T

It's interesting that one of the new things for SCH is a dot. I thought the reason they took so many debuffs and dots off jobs was because the engine had a status effect limit and they wanted to avoid people going over that limit during alliance raids? Does it not stack with biolysis, perhaps?

Did expedient get nuked?

I just want to vent about how I guessed what SCH's new angel form would do the day that the Dawntrailer job trailer went out. On the third watch I realized a very familiar spell effect, that being emergency tactics. Then piecing that together with how there was a single target heal than an aoe heal shown in angel. I knew that this was a instant cast adlo and succor. Then I made the realization that they were able cast emergency tactics less than its 15CD. Meaning that angel form will give SCH instant cast healing to their GCD heals and have a faster CD on emergency tactics. So happy that I got all that major notes on angel form but obviously couldn't see the regen that this form gives. But that's just icing on the cake.

Seraphism is basically bankai for Sch

I have mixed feelings TBH. On the one hand, I think Seraphism will be a cool skill for progression runs. On the other hand, every other piece of content in the game. I self nerfed my SCH in Endwalker by removing a few healing skills because I think we have too much healing potential that lures us into long down time of monotony and that for me has been the biggest complaint about healers. It is nice to see they've added more DPS skills, but I feel like fixing the monotony problem is going to need something more substantial than a single DoT ever 2 minutes. And the downside of adding more healing potential is that you increase downtime. Though I get there is potential for Seraphism to require you to use fewer of your Aetherflow skills & spend them on Energy Drain to break up the Broil monotony, but the skills I removed were my Aetherflow ones. The healing requirement for most content is so low that Emergency Tactics + Succor is enough to top people off, Fey Blessing is just enough to suffice as an insta heal in certain moments. I keep Excog to hand just in case the tank needs a big insta heal, but the fact I've said "Excog" and not "Lustrate" shows I don't expect it to be frequent. Admittedly, this is for everything outside of Savage Raid, simply because I didn't Savage Raid in EW, I've not since ShB, but then I'm not really in a position to commit to a static & not content that's fun with randos from the PF. On the flip side, I think for your average healer (not saying I am amazing, but I've been here since 2.0 and mained SCH), Seraphism might mean they can broil less too and utilise their Aetherflow stacks for Broil->Ruin II ->Energy Drain as like a rotation almost. So maybe it is positive, but I feel like I'm going to be endeding up with the same/usual complaints.

They just added a healing go Brrrrr button

I really hope this is a preamble for a future rework of the class in the next expansion. None of these changes make the class less clunky and unfun to play for me.

I’m very unsurprised by Seraphism. One reason: SCH is the one healer that can’t solo heal through both Zeromus’s Abyssal Nox and also handle Sable Thread. SGE: Abyssal Nox - Zoe+Pneuma, Ixochole, Kerachole, Pepsis pre-E.Prog, with Prognosis spam. Sable Threaf - Panhaima and Kerachole + E.Prog spam solo. Like it’s really unfair how easily SGE can sleep through Zeromus (and so much other content). WHM: Cure III spam for Abyssal Nox. Liturgy of the Bell, Temperance, Asylum, and Medica II for Sable Thread. AST: Macrocosmo + Earthly Star for Abyssal Nox. Collective Unconscious, Celestial Opposition, Neutral Sect and Aspected Helios spam. SCH: I’ve tried, but they just don’t have enough pure healing throughput to handle Abyssal Nox while also trying to handle Sable Thread in Zeromus EX. I’m glad you like the change, but a lot of this feels like horrible design and almost spiteful hatred for SCH players from whichever dev is working on them.

i fucking HATE dissipation. It sucks so much i basically only ever use it during a DPS opener for more EDs or when prog goes south and i just need more Aetherflows and healing power. This ability is literally my most hated ability in the game and i still main the job fuck me

why is a shield healer's pinnacle ability focused on resto healing?....

Seraphism look broken, feel like it s gonna be nerf. Also love the transformation look really cool to become god for 20sec

Seraphism is either going to be amazing or terrible depending on how needed GCD healing actually ends up being. Though that's speaking strictly from a gameplay perspective because the forced glam looks kinda awful to me and I hope it can be toggled off.

My favorite healer secured it's place...this looks awesome.

I love that we are getting more tools, but giving us a combo action to our raid buff instead of a normal AOE miasma, like WE HAD FOR YEARS, makes very little sense to me. Sage literally got an instant-cast miasma and we are sitting here waiting 120 seconds.

Can they make the scholar...I don't know...more fairy based?! Seraph Summon? Seraph Form? Why do they give the holy stuff to the fairy themed job? 🤨 Like damn gimme Titania themed stuff and it would still be better than the wannabe whitemage skills the scholar got...

To think my first healer ever got such a drastic change for the better... damn. A lot has changed since 8 years ago. Healers are honestly looking so good so far.

I like the idea of a super transformation cooldown but why does it turn you into a mid looking angel 😂 scholar’s more about fairies i’d rather it give you cool fairy wings

Sch has always been low key op, and they are making it a bit more obvious it’s op.

Oh boy! Zero meaningful changes to Scholar again! I sure am looking forward to playing Reaper for another expansion!

As someone that raided as SCH as the main on one of my characters, I... uh.... Just don't have dissipation on my bar. At all. Ever. I am well aware for parsing and such it is a pure dps loss, but I REFUSE to eat my Fairy. The fairy stays at ALL TIMES with me. It's just how I am with the job. On the flip note: I... also never have used Recitation outside of Deployment except in 4-man dungeons. It'll be interesting to see how it works out in the raids if the lower CD will matter for me at all. That said, a lot of what I am seeing makes me feel it is a 4-man focused changes to the job, more than the raiding scene as a whole. Baneful just screams 'Make the SCH use chain during Trash, and not just sit on it till the next boss' Recitations lower CD just makes me feel like they want you to more easily shield the tank prior to each pack of mobs. Seraphism I like in concept. However, I am the type to see it more as a 'oh shit, time to bandaid' rather than a proper skill for any point in a fight. Emergency Tactics is already a nearly dead button for me, I am sure I only really used it during P3S for the healer check. I see Seraphism possibly enabling a bit more of mechanics like P10S HH, which I would not mind seeing heavy damage output. That said, we've gotten better bandaid tools before and had few times to make them shine. That said, that could all boil down to just how I enjoy SCH. I love focusing on the shields and the like over the entire raid. I am piss-poor at reacting to the unexpected. As I prog a fight, I start setting in stone when and where I use oGCDs, when I swift out a succor, etc. I literally get caught completely off guard if during regular mechanics the other healer or someone dies and start flailing about in confusion a bit. XD (I am certainly not a great healer, just a passable for the fights.) It'll be interesting to see how the new expansion pushes healing, or if it'll be same ol' same ol'.

Dissipation is really a let down for me, the job overal seems to get some nice buffs, don't get me wrong, and seraphism sounds fantastic, but pre 100 this job sounds like like it's an incoherent mess with some nice abilities in between to make it strong. And Chain Strategem single target Crit buff goes into a AOE Dot??? This jobs needs SYNERY, not more power.

Scholar getting 6.7 AF/minute over sage's 4.2 Is crazy

How come noone’s talking about the fact that healers will be spamming the same dps spell animation they have the past 2 years, for another 2 years? Glare, broil etc. Upgrades were expansion staples and now scholar and astro will be spamming those same animations with….. one tiny new animation once every TWO MINUTES. That’s so boring man

Can we just delete Dissapation already. Why is it still in the game? It’s like old cleric stance, we got rid of it for a reason

Nothing changed on SCH gameplay wise. I dont want to broilspam. It has already destroyed 1 controller of mine.

as scholar main.... I AM DAMN HAPPY ABOUT THIS!!!! HELL YEAH!!!!! FCK DAMAGE! I WILL MAKE EVERYONE IMMORTAL AND THEY CAN DO THE DAMAGE FOR ME! INCLUDING THE OTHER HEALER!!! i see this as an absolute win.

I wish they'd decide on the job identity for sch instead of just slapping literally whatever on them, even if it works. Sure, Seraphism may be strong, but it has nothing to do with Scholar, it's a White Mage themed ability if anything.

I was a SCH main since HW. And now I am SOOO happy that Pictomancer will be my new main. Because I rly liked the Fairy-academic theme. But now with it becoming more and more angel-fairy-technic something, I just don't get it anymore

Eh, all the power of Seraphism doesn't change the fact that I really *really* dislike the transformation part of it, so I'll actually be avoiding level 100 content with it so I won't have to use it.

I just don't get why they morph scholar into all this Angel-Seraph stuff instead of sticking to fairies. Seraphism sounds cool...but visually.....🤢 Looks like a rly cheap halloween costume

You can tell how many healers here never even saw a reaper in their life when they're all complaining about the visual change you to your character. It's such a non issue lmao no one cares how you look when you're supposed to be doing mechanics

Meh, more healing that's wholly unnecessary and a DoTs locked behind a 2m CD.

Such a shit show seraphism is a joke

yeah just play sage at this point