(05-31-2013, 03:49 AM)Lanos Blaquesun Wrote: What does the scholar do as a FF job?
In FFXI, Scholar was a hybrid mage that alternated between light and dark magics. Whichever they have active, their skills in that magic are boosted while the other are much lower. They also have job abilities called grimoires, which have different effects on casting, such as halving the MP cost or casting time, boosting power, or turning single target spells into AoE spells. But the grimoires only work on the school they have active at the time. For example if they have Light Arts active, their skills in healing, enhancing, etc are boosted and they can use light grimoires to effect light spells, but their dark magic skills are mediocre and they cannot access dark grimoires. They can only use a set number of grimoires before they have to recharge. They also have many Scholar-only spells: Helixes, which are powerful dark magic DoTs, light magic Storm spells that change the element of the weather around them, and buffs that boost or reduce a party member's aggro gain. There's also two spells they can only use while under their 2hr, Embrava which gives Regen, Regain and Haste, and Kaustra is a brutal dark magic DoT.
The fun of playing SCH was juggling between light and dark magics, strategizing with your grimoires, and keeping the weather around you and your party set to the element you want.
