The funniest part about Sch is their book autoattack deals more dmg than a Rdm. Come on, how cool is that.

As a SCH main, my favorite thing about it is honestly the fact that it feels like you have an answer to nearly any situation that a fight throws at you, which helps keep me calm as a healer. I will be the first to admit that I do not have the mindset or temperament to play a pure healer all that well, but SCH meshes very well with my own thought process and playstyle.

The reasons why Scholar is my main healer: The story is good. Broil 4 is the coolest looking basic attack of any healer.

I really like Scholar, but for me the reason I prefer Sage is the pacing. I find that I'm hitting more buttons moment to moment which helps keep me engaged. It's really important when you have a low attention span like I do!

I think another reason SCH works so well (and this applies to sage, too) is because a LOT of the damage in this game you can see coming well ahead of time and the toolkit promotes mitigating/nullifying it. IMO this gives more leeway for mistakes to be made by other party members and reduces the chance of having to panic heal someone or need to res someone after they flubbed a mechanic.

I main AST because I just can't get enough of the stars/fortune-teller vibe, but I tried SCH once and I also fell in love with it! I absolutely adore the fact that have a fairy companion and even though I still struggle with healing (still learning), I'm going to keep playing until I perfect it. It's such a fun job!

I've been a scholar since ARR, and I won't lie. I REALLY thought I was going to immediately jump to sage and not look back. Instead, I'm still shouting strategies at people but now I also brought my glowing support squirrel to work. I'm a scholar for life.

I absolutely adore your editing! The videos are always aesthetically pleasing^^

SCH is also one of the two classes that are a 2-for-1. You level SCH and get SMN with it (I main both, which ever role is needed 😅)

I played scholar for a long while, but switched to Sage during Endwalker. However, after actually playing the game in a static during Abyssos, and learning a *lot* about how to properly heal, I’m considering switching back to scholar. It also helps that I found various options in the game to improve how ground targeting feels to me, making fairy movement and sacred soil feel a lot better to use.

Im a SGE main, and tried getting into SCH but always had difficulty with all the different skills. I'm switching to be more of a pure healer after raiding a lot as SGE with a co-healer who... wasn't doing well... so I really utilized the healer power of SGE to its limits and got a good eye for how much healing is needed between raid wides and mechanics. I want to revisit SCH again someday, but I think Im going to have to hit the books to get it down. (how appropriate tho) Great video! Each one just gets me excited to try tackling each new healer challenge.

I like how our abilities play together well. Recitation, Deployment tactics, Fey Illumination, Emergency tactics, It really gets across the idea of being the smart healer to combine these in the perfect way for the situation. My go-to is throwing a Protraction on the off-tank or myself if they're both under attack, Recitation, Fey illumination, Adloquiem, then Deployment tactics to give everyone a massive shield. perfect for raid wides. I know the tooltip of adlo says that a crit adds a separate shield that doesn't get deployed, but I tested it out, and the extra shielding from the crit heal does make a noticeable difference. Way better than using a crit succor.

When it comes to end game content, all those extra tools truely shines

Me playing WHM/AST: *plays rotations as intended, buttons pressed with no special flair, minus Holy/Gravity spam, when I sound like Reaper from OW doing his ulti* Me as SGE: *PUSH ALL THE BUTTONS JUST TO FEEL BUSY, NEVER SIT AT ALL 3 STACKS OF GALL, BUBBLE STAYS ON PERMANENTLY* Me as SCH, my main choice when I heal: *goes full anime villain with the way each action was planned all along, button presses are precise, tactical even* "No one dies under my watch, this war is as good as ours". And I'll never switch my Neo-ishgardian hat from my sch, it's very frontline commander-y looking. Video is good. Entertaining and informative, keep up the good work.

Very nice video. Educational while entertaining.

Something about Scholar just works, despite its jank; id love to see More interaction between faerie gauge and the kit and a feeww more dmg buttons. Its the ultimate class that each button on its own is small, but together they make such a great whole.

WTF YOUR MIQOTE IS THE PRETTIEST MIQOTE I HAVE EVER SEEN?! Usually they all look like girl clique bullies/ heathers xD I didn't know miqo'te can be this cute and sweet looking! (Tbf face 4/104 is extremely underrated and IMO the best face option)

Scholar is my favorite co-healer to work with! They work so well with whm :3

People think sch is a "dork with a fairy" when he's actually a frontline tactician. He analyses the enemy, commands troops to advance while creating tactical opportunities for team survival. Fairy is not a pet, but an adjutant to a healing commander.

I love this channel! I just started playing this month and this has been my guide on sch. AND YOU'RE FUNNY!!!! but i do love gundams >.

Nice video! Scholar is already my main, but I hope this battles the general perception of the class as a "clunky" healer.

scholar isnt my main, but it sure is fun to play. i personally like to use recitation on excogitation during dungeon pulls, can basically get the tank all the way back up to max hp after it goes off lol (it also doesnt use any aetherflow). very good combo imo

I'm an Astro main but I'm trying to learn SCH again cus it looks really cool now (yay dark academia vibes). And I'm so happy to see a proper guide that includes just the info I need. Been struggling a lot with trash pulls in every expansion's starting dungeons where mobs hit harder and it makes my shields (even the tough ones!) break in a second. Thank you for talking about this part of the job and how to handle situations like these! Your love for SCH encouraged me to keep trying. Thank you for the video ❤

As a level 100 Scholar this is the first I've heard of people haitng it

Funny enough, I switched this tier to healer for savage and up comes your videos about scholar. It has bumped me up in skill level where I feel more comfortable and confident playing it. Still trying to get that thick shield, into my thick muscle memory. 😅

I played SCH for a long time, but swapped to Sage going into P4S prog and haven't really looked back since then. Something about Sage just clicks way more for me.

im a scholar main, i love this job so much. been playing it since e11s prog and i never looked back. love the aesthetic, love being able to heal from far away. love the fairy. sage just feels hard for me to play, i especially dont like their aetherflow abilities and how you need to spend them to keep MP up causing you to overheal for MP, and also im mot a fan of phlegma its difficult (for me) to line phlegmas with raid buffs. i much prefer energy drain

I think the reason people meme on scholar so much is because it's not "flashy" like the other healers are. Whm with all the holy stuff, aster with the literally galaxy explosions and sage blasting the Gundam OST while they play. Scholar has always been an extremely powerful healer though (except for the start of 4.0... but we don't talk about those dark times).

As a tank main I like pressing buttons before the big attack and not after, which is why I like playing scholar xd

Having recently begun dabbling with scholar (my first attempt at a healing class, for better or worse), hearing someone who mains the class say it feels lacking at lower levels is actually pretty reassuring. I've felt that way especially in the lv40-50 range, where things start hitting harder and getting a little more complicated, but I'm not given any extra tools to keep up. Was convinced it was just me being bad at the class... which could very well still be true. XD But if nothing else, this has given me a little more motivation to keep at it.

Speaking of healing partners, it kinda sucks when you get into raids and you get paired up with a fellow barrier healer. Sure we can cover each other but pure healer + barrier healer in a party feels more balanced.

Initially what got me into SCH was that you had so much control over your faerie and could pick between two with different ones and you could still carry over some of your ACN dps into the job, not just being another healer. Bio, Miasma, Bane, Flare, and Drain, seeing the numbers fly appealed to my WoW-rotted brain. Then Deployment Tactics and Emergency Tactics fit the job so well, I loved the idea of a healer being able to modify their spells to fit the situation and necessities of the moment, it filled the tactician vibe so well. Controlling your adjutant faerie, assisting with damage, and adapting your healing as necessary. The job was everything the game told me it was. And then ShB came and gave the WoW treatment to every job. Lets homogenize everything so raiders stop crying... But at least the game is _(slooowly)_ clawing its way out of that pit and SCH does feel the most different of all the healers to me. For the reasons in this video; Recitation, Expedient, Baneful Impaction, Seraphism. I'd say an addition (probably unintended) to the flavour of SCH is, as far as I can tell, you can't actually lock yourself out of your own mechanics by being careless when playing other healers like you can as SCH. Seraph and Dissipation already butted heads and Seraphism just adds to that. You can't just slap your keyboard and let things figure themselves out. One of those buttons has to be pressed deliberately and with the others in mind and that, to me, just adds to the SCH fantasy of planning and adapting.

Thanks to this video my SCH is now maxed👍

Sage main here. I agree that Sage is worse than scholar in Utility and "BIG shield". However Sage is more toward on Pure Healing and Mobilty(can GCD shield while moving, the only Healer that has GapCloser)(This Mobility is the only reason I'm stil a sage Main xD). But, don't get me wrong. I do love Sage+Scholar comp (on lv 90). The mitigations are absolutely strong. Bigger shield (Protraction + Krasis combo on Recitation Shield) , Both Kerachole and Sacred Soil can be stack together. The overlapping shield is a thing but that is very minor. Oh! also, Sage has larger range in OCGD heal and mitigation if compared to scholar (I think its to compensate the pet placement micromanage) Kerachole, Panhaima, Physis, Holos are 30yalms radius.

When I play healer I usually play Scholar or Astro. However when doing DF dungeons I usually wind up playing sage because while yes scholar's sustain is better Sage's pure healing capabilities in a emergency situation makes it more comfortable. (Especially Panhaima and Haimon) I would love if there was a similar effect added to all the healers tbh. (The 2nd closest is WHM's bell)

ya know... this has solidified my choice to level up Scholar/Summoner!

I'm still a sprout 🌱 but i wanted to play Sage once i (pun) grow out of my starter/main role. However after seeing your video and hearing your explanations, I seriously want to do Scholar instead. Reasons being: • Love fat shields • Love healing (regen is always awesome) • Tome/Book users are classics in any rpg When i improve and switch roles, i plan on devoting myself to the Scholar's arts. Then Astrologian probably

Aside from the frustrating recovery after being raised, Scholar is probably my favourite Healer. Though Astrologian is very close. But the added flexibility and complexity of the fairy bumps Scholar up a notch, alongside more free-er movement with Ruin II and Expedience. The big brained tactician class flavour is the cherry on top. (I do miss the other DoTs and Bane though!)

thanks for the vid, excellent tips too, i main sch and i still learned a lot. i would also love to see a vid where you showcase your HUD!

Yeees. Validate my "Pet Class Supremacy" mindset mooore.

Sch is my favorite healer almost purely because the shield crit feels do good. The longer that green bar the better.

I'm a scholar main aswell coming for white mage (way back in HW) and honestly everything in this video. Excog alone is a reason to play the job. I love the options you have. Basically you have three kits that come together as one : regular spells, aether flow spells and your fairy. You-have-options. And there is nothing more satisfying than seeing a stack marker, poping a bubble and a party wide shield and leaving your pure healer mate wondering what they are here for when the small damage taken is instantly healed by your bubble.

I'd love to try out scholar sometime! But as a newbie to raiding (who maxed SMN instead of SCH) I'm really really overwhelmed by all of the skills they have and don't really know where to start.. T__T

I main paladin, so naturally I also sub-main scholar coz its basically a mini-tank. Since one of the core fundamentals of my main job is rotating cooldowns, scholar suits me very well coz its the same fundamentals. And the best part about sch imo, is the fact if the tank is slow in a dungeon I can make him go faster with expedient. I also like that I can use sacred soil and then just ignore aoes, stay in the middle and spam art of war lol. Its also pretty chill to play in 8 man content (extremes aids), spam broil and use a cooldown now n then lol

In each expansion from starting at ARR to Endwalker I tried a new job but around Shadowside when I was good at certain roles I began to swap to least played jobs and with Dawntrail will be going with Warrior, New DPS and Scholar as the main job I'll be playing. I often switch when getting into one I've not as much experience in to avoid frustrations and since will be first expansion I will prioritize healer will definitely be interested

I love the "fairy on steroids" LOL sch is my main for years

you got me im sold

NIN player looking into healers and i feel like SCH might be a good one for my preferences - originally played BLM but my issue is that the rotation isn't fun lol whereas NIN's mudras are like a hectic minigame

I love scholar at this point. It's the most comfartable healer for dungeons imo. And it's a really niche but dope aesthetic you won't get anywhere else pretty much. Got SGE and SCH on 90, but the artifact gear stays on (sorry pew pew gundam)

I started as Scholar year ago and still main him ... love this job and after I finish lvling my last job I came back on Scholar, because Sholar is the best for me :)

Sold me on trying SCH.

I have an alt that only plays scholar but I haven’t been playing on that one in a while because I feel like I’m not very good at it. I’ll try again, though, to hit the target levels you mentioned that the job feels more complete in.

See I play scholar because it was free with my SMN.

This is why I would rather do classes instead of choosing which one. I don't care which class is better I would just play all of them. In the Final Fantasy franchise doing all the classes is supremely worth it. Especially with 14 and Strangers of Paradise.

I love healing on my Astro with a Scholar. Great match up. And my card slice does 2, 2!!!! damage!

SCH is my favorite job!

Im too distracted by the cuteness.

I hear you fellow SCH main still my favorite healer out there

Not gonna lie, Your video made me attempt Scholar after hating it since 2.0. Still hate it but GG. It has improved greatly since its release.

i was lured from scholar to sage, but both are fun. one thing i like about sage is multiple attack abilities dosis and euk dosis kind of map to ruin and the dot, but sage also has phlegma for a ranged aoe, toxocon for a mobile one, and the final ability pneuma for a heal/big honkin gundam blast. scholars have the standard stuff, the regular single, the dot, the aoe, which is faster than most healer aoes, being i beleive an instacast, and the resource st with energy drain, but thats kind of it, now ruin does get some amazing looks from 3 and 4, 4 looks like a photon torpedo, but they do feel a little less offensively set than sages. still have a lot of fun shields, but given that the ff healer is much more aggressive than the mmo standard, i do kind of appreciate the more dakka. tha tsaid, all healers are fun, and like i said, ruin 4 is beautiful, so ill play em all.

Sage deals more damage in dungeons, scholar deals more damage in solo-boss trials/raids.

I like the scholar. I make barriers more, as, to heal after the dmg. And i like the fairy. Sage is for me to futuristic.^^

Scholar was the first healer I tried in FFXIV (played healer in wow), and so far is the only one I like. I haven't tried sage (trying to get the other healers up to 70 first)

i just like the whole fae theme of sch

Honestly i went for scholar as my first job but gave up on it pretty quickly because of how lacking it felt. And now i have every class in the game, with my mains being sge and whm, after watching this video im highly tempted to try scholar again. Love your vids

I played sch from arr through start of shb, mained ast till ew, and have been playing sge since. I will say i miss my fairy sometimes and wanna go back but when i swap i struggle remembering what some of the newer buttons do lmao. I think I'll stay with sage through dawn trail tho cause i love having nearly every off global aoe heal have double the radius (30y instead of 15y) plus i like my big damage numbers from phlegma lmao

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Drk main with two books since 3.0 Sch n Smn. This is my core in FFXIV ❤

Sch is great. It provides so much to a raid with healing and utility and dps while actually being comprehensive and fairly easy to understand. Wm has very little substances, and Astros heals feel like to much work for its output.

Tbh most of the reasons in this video is why I main Scholar. While the one negative side to proactive healing is having to guess or make assumptions on first time runs with content, once you know a fight you feel like you have the power to deny the wrath of god. Feels real good.

I main Sage and at this point I know it like the back of my hand, it was the only other healer I had leveled when I started raiding, the other being Astro, and of the two I found it easier to manage. I was intimidated by Scholar before I leveled it becuase I kept hearing it's hard to play and to be honest, I don't find it that much harder than Sage. The only skill I miss when playing it is Panhaima which is probably my favourite skill in Sage's aresnal, especially in this tier with all the big multi-hitting attacks. Depending on how Astro gets reworked I see myself either maining that or Scholar next tier!

I prefer SCH (since I'm a SCH main) than any of the healers, they have more utilities. You get a total of 6 instant heals (Lustrate, Excogitation and Indomitability) through Aetherflow (Both Aetherflow and Dissipation), Critical healing, critical shield, spreading critical shields, buffing heals (Protraction, Fey Illumination), so on and so forth. Plus, you have a faerie that just heals people constantly, and you can transform them too, for bigger heals. Plus, you get Aetherpact, one of its strongest healing-over-time tools for a single target. Love SCH.

Scholar used to be my main before I switched to GNB, but I still love it hehe!

I main sam in ff14 but in my fc, I am the healer More specific a shield healer I love sch instead of sage because when we try to prog something, i could leave healing to "auto heal", such as exoc and fairy Then i could either focus on dps-ing or helping my other teamate

I love everything u said about SCH i main scholar than again I’ve only been playing for 2 months and it’s 2 jobs in 1 so win for me now with that said I’ve played white mage and astrologist and enjoy dueling more so win to Astro with that said I personally feel that barrier healing is the most fun, unless u like playing cards. Now that I got scholar to lvl 70 I was able to unlock sage and sage is also fun to play but at low lvls it’s every stressful since your missing so much skills I love the looks so ill probably end up switching to sage with that said keep this videos going became a fan from for shorts 👍🏾🙌🏾

While a lot of this is stuff I had already learned due to me getting into FFXIV *Specifically* out of a desire to main Scholar because literally every aspect of it feels aimed directly at me. It's really nice to hear of more people who love playing it too! Just reached 90 a couple days ago. I'm also glad to see a good guide come out, since when I first started playing and started looking for guides for Scholar, nearly everything I saw was just, "Hurr durr just play Sage! Just play sage it better" Suffice to say, I now refuse to start Sage until everything else is at 90

Scholar- for the longest while was my main healer. It's the healer I started playing first and will always find it neat to revisit atleast but now SGE is the one and only barrier healer I need. After experiencing the fluidity of that, it's tough to go back to SCH and think "Yeah, this is fun"

I loove all healers. And sch is plenty of fun. But usually i hardly use all my abilities cause they are not necessary to heal or keep party alive. Sometimes u get a new player thats when i use everything.

I started as a healer. Scholar astro and sage ive tried out so far. All 3 feel very good to play. But recently tried out my first two dps classes bard and dancer and they feel rly fun to play too. Healer that tries everything to do as much dmg and as little on global cd heals felt rough sometimes.

As someone who has used SCH as their main healer since ARR, I can say that it is my favorite overall class after DRK. It's just so damn fun to play in every respect. There's something intoxicating about watching some boss' tankbuster or ultimate just bounce off your shields... And it kind of stimulates my brain's need to multitask, with managing faerie skills and such (though not nearly as much as it did back in the day, before we lost half their damn skills). That said, I do have anxieties when paired with SGEs. One major reason being, I think a lot of people don't realize that the final viable shield potency between Succor and Eukrasian Prognosis is ultimately the same, at least based on my math, and of course barring critical heals and the usual variance factor. Succor has higher HEAL potency, but less of that is converted into shields, compared to Prognosis which has a lower heal potency, but higher shield conversion. In the end, it's the same effect. I have so many SGEs obsessively overwriting my shields (my Deployed Critlos, too) and it honestly boggles my mind. I know the need for Addersting is there, but I keep having SGEs that spitefully overwrite beyond that need, to the point of insanity. It would be nice to have coexisting shields, beyond Catalyze and Differential Diagnosis, though I guess that could lead to other issues. Still, Scholar is such a fun job, I recommend that everyone at least give it a try.

i main a sch and the main thing that is annoying to me is when the tanks flies off in the distance and he goes out of reach the moment I want to put exco on him. I'm like "mate wait up, I can't help you like this!!!" But I tried white mage which is cool but it gets me so anxious when those health bars drop XD atro was to weird for me and sage just hits different from sch ^_^ Want to try whm again sometime but first want to get a grasp of the sch toolkit. Almost all your great skills are not really necessary until halfway through or near the end of SB. At least thats what I noticed. SO yeah, currently working on really thinking about the skills i use and when. Its fun ^_^

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I dropped scholar after EW came out. I was bummed about the new spells or lack thereof. I wanna get back into it because it was my fav during ShB for running Delubrum Reginae but I'm intimidated as it's been a while and I don't remember what everything does anymore, much less the new stuff.

If my chocobo, my minion and my fairy aren't around, i feel lonely doing treasure hunts

My primary healer is sage, but i have a soft spot for scholar exactly because it's weird.

I don't hate SCH .... I just never "had" to paly it because I'm a SMN main so I got it maxed with no work lol Just had to do the class quests... and omg I can now make the fairy a Carby so that made me super happy as a Carby lover

I've played Shcoolar for years and never knew you could place your Farie...like at all. Like WTF.

I mained sch in arr back when it was current content, after the rework i switched to ast then they reworked that. I still miss my sects

main reasons im still a scholar main: fairy, autoattack with book, and spite. I love showing off xD

Scholar is my main class. I mean, I am only just starting heavensward so not really tried other classes but I enjoy being scholar xD

i would consider Scholar less Dark Academia and more Fae/Light Academia. The warm green tones are much more prominent than the deeper browns of dark academia, and with the faerie companion, it's got more of a witchy academic vibe to me

Okay but your glam 🫶🏼🫶🏼

I main scholar too, I just love popping those massive shields and being able to be a green dps. I struggle with sage because I have a harder time getting big shields on people.

As SGE (prefer), I'd say SCH has stronger "HEALING AND SHEILDING" if they're willing to shield and heals, stronger dps, but Energy drain has to use every aetherflow+eating fairy for it while efficiently heals&shield all party members are INSANE to optimize.While SGE seperates those entirely between healing and dmging. if the party is not for you SCH is much more difficult to play to it's highest potential.

scholar is already my main but i watched this anyway lol 😆 i'm still a sprout but it's nice feeling validated on why i prefer healing as scholar!

I never thought that Scholars are "Janky". I used to main it and only traded it for Sage because I found the DPS skills were more interesting. In terms of healing and being a bit laid back, Scholar is still somewhat superior.

scholar main here: mmmm B O O K

I just came back form along hiatus, had to teach myself Sage again, now that its 90, now I gott re-learn SCH, WHM and AST (i dont like what happened to the cards :( )

I'll be honest, I picked scholar because of the faerie pet. Before I started XIV I did a bit of research on the jobs to see what I wanted to play. I saw that there was a faerie pet class, and I said, "that's the one." My partner told me, "uh, that's a healer. You sure about that?" and I barely even hesitated. I'd never been a healer main before. But I wasn't going to give up on the faerie that easily. I love faeries. I collect them. Posters, statues, shirts, etc. So I was a little bitter when I started my scholar path as a dps caster with a weird cat pet. Lol. But I did my cross class leveling (remember those? lol) and when I hit 30 arcanist and 15 conjurer, I got my faerie, and never looked back. and here we are, ten years later... and I'm still maining scholar because I genuinely enjoy the job. It feels really versatile to me, like I feel like I have a tool for ever situation. I've got shields and dots and I can convert the shields into pure healing, I've got damage reduction, and my aoe is instant so I can weave oGCD healing in no problem. I've tried other healers, and while they're all fine, and I can play them fine, it takes a lot more... thought process on my end. Scholar just *clicks* for me in a way that none of the others do.

The great thing about Scholar is it puts the game on easy mode. Can't get past Venta in Elpis? No worries, switch to Scholar and it's a cake walk. Because of the fairy you rarely have to stop to self heal when out in the world. Just dps and Eos will keep you alive.