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RE: Attribute points for arcanist to scholar - Reginald - 10-21-2013
Although the topic started about SCH stats, it's great that it turned into a discussion about SCH abilities. To add to some of the ideas:
- The Adloquium shield is doubled when you crit heal. Say, for example, you heal with Adloquium for "1017!", you put a 2034 potency Adloquium shield on the target. That's quite a lot so investing in critical hit rate can be a good idea. The same holds true for succor. If someone gets hit with a "457!" heal from succor, that person also gets a 914 potency shield. Again, don't spam these spells since they have high mana costs.
- Although, Lustrate can be a good emergency heal, don't save up stacks just for that spell. Use it when needed (don't overheal), otherwise use the stacks on something else like Sacred Soil (unless you're preparing for something big such as Ifrit's Hellfire or Titan's Geocrush/Tumult and you can't afford to have it on cooldown) or Energy Drain when Aetherflow is off cooldown.
- Watch out for the Disease debuff! Use Leeches to cure it immediately. The same goes for paralyze.
- Like what Flapjack mentioned, don't forget to make use of your other skills such as Rouse, Eye for an Eye, and Virus when needed. They help a lot.
- Shadow Flare and Sacred Soil don't stack!
- Swiftcast. It's very useful when you need that instant raise, instant summon, or two succors in quick succession (HM Titan's Tumult comes to mind).
- Control your fairy. Place it near the tank or where it can reach the entire party during a boss fight and manually cast Embrace to maximize healing.
- In my experience, I usually only have to keep shields up on the tank and melee DPS. Some fights during endgame are quite healing intensive and can really drain your mana so proper mana management is key. Keeping shields up on ranged DPS (who rarely gets hit) is counterproductive.
RE: Attribute points for arcanist to scholar - LiadansWhisper - 10-21-2013
It's important to note that if you manually cast Embrace from your fairy, she will then go into "Guard" mode and use all of her other CDs immediately (before you can get her back into Steady). Â The only way to keep her from blowing all of her CDs is to keep her on Steady and let her cast Embrace herself.
RE: Attribute points for arcanist to scholar - Flapjack - 10-21-2013
(10-21-2013, 05:25 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: It's important to note that if you manually cast Embrace from your fairy, she will then go into "Guard" mode and use all of her other CDs immediately (before you can get her back into Steady). Â The only way to keep her from blowing all of her CDs is to keep her on Steady and let her cast Embrace herself.
Not entirely true, but halfway there. Â Have no target selected, and click steady. Â Then select a target, and click obey. Â Then heel. Â This will allow you to manually cast all of her abilities, while still maintaining the manual and automatic casting of embrace. Â This will persist until the faerie needs to be resummoned. Â You can place it wherever you want or have it follow you and it won't start auto casting Anything other than embrace.
RE: Attribute points for arcanist to scholar - LiadansWhisper - 10-21-2013
(10-21-2013, 06:50 PM)Flapjack Wrote:(10-21-2013, 05:25 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: It's important to note that if you manually cast Embrace from your fairy, she will then go into "Guard" mode and use all of her other CDs immediately (before you can get her back into Steady). Â The only way to keep her from blowing all of her CDs is to keep her on Steady and let her cast Embrace herself.
Not entirely true, but halfway there. Â Have no target selected, and click steady. Â Then select a target, and click obey. Â Then heel. Â This will allow you to manually cast all of her abilities, while still maintaining the manual and automatic casting of embrace. Â This will persist until the faerie needs to be resummoned. Â You can place it wherever you want or have it follow you and it won't start auto casting Anything other than embrace.
You're the only person I've ever seen say this. Â Everyone else I've talked to (and everything I've seen when I've used her abilities myself) has her going to Guard and free-casting once I use Embrace manually. Â Is this a new change?
RE: Attribute points for arcanist to scholar - Flapjack - 10-21-2013
(10-21-2013, 07:10 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote:(10-21-2013, 06:50 PM)Flapjack Wrote:(10-21-2013, 05:25 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: It's important to note that if you manually cast Embrace from your fairy, she will then go into "Guard" mode and use all of her other CDs immediately (before you can get her back into Steady). Â The only way to keep her from blowing all of her CDs is to keep her on Steady and let her cast Embrace herself.
Not entirely true, but halfway there. Â Have no target selected, and click steady. Â Then select a target, and click obey. Â Then heel. Â This will allow you to manually cast all of her abilities, while still maintaining the manual and automatic casting of embrace. Â This will persist until the faerie needs to be resummoned. Â You can place it wherever you want or have it follow you and it won't start auto casting Anything other than embrace.
You're the only person I've ever seen say this. Â Everyone else I've talked to (and everything I've seen when I've used her abilities myself) has her going to Guard and free-casting once I use Embrace manually. Â Is this a new change?
Nope. Â I've been doing it this way since beta. Â Summoner pets work the same if I'm not mistaken. Using this method, you will see her switch back to guard from steady, but her obey command will hold. Â Test it out and let me know if it works differently from what you normally see.
RE: Attribute points for arcanist to scholar - LiadansWhisper - 10-21-2013
(10-21-2013, 07:22 PM)Flapjack Wrote: Nope. Â I've been doing it this way since beta. Â Summoner pets work the same if I'm not mistaken. Â Using this method, you will see her switch back to guard from steady, but her obey command will hold. Â Test it out and let me know if it works differently from what you normally see.
k, I'll check that out tonight.
RE: Attribute points for arcanist to scholar - Cato - 10-21-2013
It's a shame that there's so much misinformation being spewed out within this thread. Everyone knows that you should be putting all of your attribute points into dexterity as a scholar. You all need to learn to play!
RE: Attribute points for arcanist to scholar - Flapjack - 10-21-2013
(10-21-2013, 09:35 PM)Theodric Ironheart Wrote: It's a shame that there's so much misinformation being spewed out within this thread. Everyone knows that you should be putting all of your attribute points into dexterity as a scholar. You all need to learn to play!
If high dexterity gave you a chance to backflip when you jump, and let you heal in the air, I would pour all my points into it.
"Your healing is shit!"
"Yeah but that backflip tho."
RE: Attribute points for arcanist to scholar - Cato - 10-21-2013
(10-21-2013, 09:40 PM)Flapjack Wrote:(10-21-2013, 09:35 PM)Theodric Ironheart Wrote: It's a shame that there's so much misinformation being spewed out within this thread. Everyone knows that you should be putting all of your attribute points into dexterity as a scholar. You all need to learn to play!
If high dexterity gave you a chance to backflip when you jump, and let you heal in the air, I would pour all my points into it.
"Your healing is shit!"
"Yeah but that backflip tho."
I put all my attribute points into dexterity as a lancer so I can stand as far away as possible from the healers and just spam piercing talon now and then for extreme damage.
RE: Attribute points for arcanist to scholar - Flapjack - 10-21-2013
(10-21-2013, 09:56 PM)Theodric Ironheart Wrote: I put all my attribute points into dexterity as a lancer so I can stand as far away as possible from the healers and just spam piercing talon now and then for extreme damage.
This guy.
RE: Attribute points for arcanist to scholar - LiadansWhisper - 10-22-2013
Confirm Flapjack's strat works. Â ^_^
...of course the moment I try to use one of her other CDs, she uses them both. Â BECAUSE PONIES.