Flapjack

I see. Well, that's nice and all, but I'm going to have to decline. Maybe you can ask me about it in game or something. ] Please help, my lions are so hungry... Oh snap! Were the hell is my paypal password?!?! Noooo tooo lateeee.... *sounds of person being devoured by lions* Natalie why did you never tell me you were a princess! I would have given my bank account, social security #, and home address to you in an instant. I mean, who wouldn't trust royalty?

The money I'm paying for this is actually pretty real. Would you like to see my bank account? I would.

There are two sides to every coin. I have talked with and RPed with a LOT of people on this server, and have not once gotten the response you describe. If you were kicked out of Linkshells, you need to look at what you could have possibly done wrong. If you say "nothing", then that is the problem right there. People don't want to RP with you for reasons that i'm sure they have. It is far from a normal human reaction, especially for RPers, to collectively ignore someone for no reason at all. I don't know you, nor have I ever had any interactions with you, so I am in no way passing any judgement on you. What i'm saying is maybe it is your actions that are driving people away from you. If it smells like shit everywhere you go, maybe try looking under your own shoe.

Hey guys just wanted everyone to know that Aleister's free company is no longer accepting any more people for this event. He wants everyone to know that he is looking forward to tomorrow's event though.

God help us... Now I'm sitting here.. wondering if Flapjack is a Hyur again.. I was a Lalafel for about 12 hours, then used my other potion to switch back to Hyur. I regret switching back

God help us...

Look, you take your freaking bubbles and gtfo, Jack. I see how it is. You're officially uninvited from Flapjack's Fantastic Fifth Annual Super Sacred Soil Extravaganza and bake sale. Enjoy being out there in the cold while we dance the night away under the blue disco bubble while feasting on all the latest baked goods from the best pastry shops from all over Eorzea.

Y'all motherfuckers need Thalos.

This guy.

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."

Not entirely true, but halfway there. Have no target selected, and click steady. Then select a target, and click obey. Then heel. This will allow you to manually cast all of her abilities, while still maintaining the manual and automatic casting of embrace. This will persist until the faerie needs to be resummoned. 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. 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. Is this a new change? Nope. I've been doing it this way since beta. 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. Test it out and let me know if it works differently from what you normally see.

Not entirely true, but halfway there. Have no target selected, and click steady. Then select a target, and click obey. Then heel. This will allow you to manually cast all of her abilities, while still maintaining the manual and automatic casting of embrace. This will persist until the faerie needs to be resummoned. You can place it wherever you want or have it follow you and it won't start auto casting Anything other than embrace.

Hello. First off, it is great to see this type of discussion on forums. Its awesome to see all the different viewpoints! I've been playing a SCH since day 1. It is an incredibly fun and powerful class. That being said, it requires a very different playstyle than your typical healer. What Liadan said is absolutely correct. Scholar's are proactive/mitigation healers. Without much left to do PvE wise, I've been running a lot of tests, both of gear and of myself to try and stretch the limits of this class. So far, I have successfully healed WP, AK, CM, and HM Ifrit completely naked, and HM Garuda half naked. I'd like to share some of my findings on topics people are discussing in this thread. Stats-Mind is king. Obviously. Second is crit. Then determination, then spell speed. I'll expand more on these choices later when skill choice is explained. Heal skills, and when to use them- Adloquium: I am putting this first since it seems like the most commonly misunderstood spell. Adloquium is FAR more powerful than most people give it credit for. It has the potential to raise the effective health of someone beyond their max. Adloquium is your primary heal. This is why crit is important on a Scholar. You may look at Adloquium's raw healing numbers, it it will pale in comparison to Physick, but the shield it provides is invaluable. An adloquium shield should be on the tank at all times. Never spam it over and over, but always weave it with physick. Physick: You're secondary heal. The only time physick should be cast is when the tank already has an adloquium shield. Getting into a good rotation of Adloquium -> Physick -> Physick -> Adloquium (depending on the strength of your shields) will improve your mana efficiency over long fights. Pet embrace should be spammed pretty much the entire time. For most trash, nothing more than adloquium -> embrace -> embrace -> adloquium -> repeat is needed. Succor: Weak ass aoe. Healing is dismal. But the shield should be on your party at all times. Casting one every 20 seconds, or when you get the free proc from sacred soil, should not hurt your mana efficiency. Mana management: SCH has amazing mana management with aether flow. But a common misconception is the use of energy drain over lustrate or sacred soil. The only time I ever use energy drain is when every is at full health, everyone has succor shields, no aoe damage is comming soon, I have extra aether flow stacks, and aether flow is off cool down. In most fights, lustrate is a better choice than energy drain for long term mana efficiency. You normally have to spend way more mana than energy drain gives you to heal 20% of a tanks health. In almost all instances, you will see a better long term mana return with lustrate than energy drain. Mitigation rotation- This is something I feel is a staple of the scholar class that is widely underused. Getting into a good rotation of sacred soil, virus, eye for an eye, blind, rouse (no mitigation, but requires you to heal a lot less), and adloquium shields is a bigger benefit to this class than gear choice, healing power, you name it. I Don't want to write too much, as I'm sure a lot of people Don't want to read a wall of text. There are a lot of misconceptions out there about the scholar class, and what exactly its role is in healing. You aren't a tank healer. Nobody is a tank healer really. You are a damage mitigator of the tank and of your party. A scholar who isn't keeping shields up, keeping a good mitigation rotation, and not using their pets abilities to their advantage, can still be a very good healer, but they aren't playing this class to the fullest.