This skill was massively reworked in terms of use and effectiveness in Shadowbringers. The fairy is one of the primary draws to Scholar. Once Dissipation is cast, you will not have access to the Fairy for 30s, but will have 20% higher healing on your GCD based heals. Misery, while being a general DPS loss versus their primary damage spell spell– Glare, is still incredible because it offers WHM opportunities to move and weave. Gaining extra burst damage on the boss is almost always superior to using it to damage an add. It then tethers itself to a tank for Unshadowed Stake, a linear tank buster the target will need to aim away from the group. Gauntlet of Uriel (SR)(Earth) 4. This will guarantee you get at least SOMETHING out of that missing GCD. Give priority to non-Aetherflow cooldowns for healing. If Star comes up before damage, it can be better to detonate a “baby” Star and take the 50 potency loss rather than forcing the SCH into an 90 potency loss from Ruin weaving or 100 from using an Aetherflow heal. This spell summons the fairy to your side, in either her Selene or Eos stance. It is much more technical and complicated than this, and it is almost impossible to recoup at 0:50s, but that is the general gist. CPM stands for “casts per minute.” Ideally this number should be as high as possible (without spamming oGCD heals to cheese it, of course). Generally, you want to avoid slow casting Resurrection if at all possible, instead pair with Swiftcast to minimize the cast time loss. Another 10% mitigation will further reduce the benefit. One neat trick to keep in mind, is there is usually an open weave slot right after our 4th GCD (the swiftcasted broil), where you can weave in a fairy skill before dissipating it. Whispering Dawn is now considered an oGCD for the Scholar, which means that it must be weaved. The more percentage increases you add, the more the math begins to stray from the actual value. It’s generally preferred that we avoid clipping, but sometimes it is necessary to optimize. I will go through small optimizations, useful macros, and more. Furthermore, because you don’t get the value out of the base heal on Adlo prepull, Excog ends with ~60 potency more value. Scholars do not have a buff in their own kit to buff the potency of healing oGCDs. Fights work on a timeline; certain mechanics always happen at certain times. The mentors and members will gladly help with anything from general questions to log analysis. A fourth expansion, titled "Endwalker", has been announced to launch in Fall 2021! The main reason this is … Seraphic - Journey To Illumination (2017) Príspevok od užívateľa Horex » Ut 23. Holding it can allow for a better re-opener on a later phase. Even then, you only need three 10% mitigations and a Succor shield to survive. Any stats put into piety are being taken directly from critical hit, determination, and direct hit. Both Fey Illumination and Dissimation’s buff has the latter phrasing. Finding the right amount of PIE for yourself takes a lot of trial and error; it is useful to keep other pieces available so that you can sub in more piety if it is needed. However, Dissolve Union has no oGCD animation lock so the impact is very minimal. The more of this stat that you get, the more crits will happen, and the harder they will scale. The problem with Recitation is that it costs an oGCD slot to use in the first place. If you are not going to get another usage of raid buffs during the encounter, it is best to get that last usage when other buffs are active. Being able to stack these healing increases results in some insane numbers in terms of shielding. In terms of prepull, you get more healing value out of Recit Excog over Recit Adloquium. And getting good value out of its skills doesn’t require you to be a top tier player. This guide will also cover some in depth healing things. Outside of a deploy situation, Recitation Succor is better than Recitation Adlo in terms of raw potency. Statistics. I will go over all of the job’s skills and describe their usage, as well as break down how Scholar interacts with other healers. If the boss dies at 8:00-8:10, you aren’t getting the full value out of the final Chain. While seemingly weak, it’s very effective due to its lower opportunity cost. In progression, it is recommended to hold off on using Dissipation until you need to push for damage, as it also doubles as a healing tool. Generally, when placed on top of a tank she should be able to heal just about anyone, unless a player is out of range due to a mechanic. It is extremely frustrating that this interaction exists, but it has been like this AST’s addition to the game. Assize is 400 healing and damage potency with a 45 second cooldown. While you could use the second Chain Stratagem on her, using it there would mean that it wouldn’t be up for the Nael opener, which was a significant loss. Reply With Quote. There is no downside to it other than that sprint needs to be weaved. Most DHIT builds have less than 1% higher damage than those with DET, and have less than 4% reduced healing. This means that if a spell speed meld or piece of gear forces you to add piety to compensate, you are likely taking an overall hit to your dps vs utilizing another substat instead. I will also be addressing certain inefficiencies in Scholar gameplay in hopes that they will allow people to avoid common mistakes.I will include sections on useful tips/tricks that can improve your overall experience playing Scholar. Treat party members like children. It is worthwhile to look into these, as they are useful guides from talented players. Certain raid buffs, like Trick Attack, can often be used on adds because they have a short cooldown. (As long as the death wasn’t because of healers DPSing). This makes understanding how to use Eos or Selene much easier. Everything has a cost. The loss from casting this Adloquium is still 290, the lost Broil III, and potentially an additional 90 from weaving the deploy. This shows exactly how all of these buffs will naturally look when used on cooldown. Monk, Warrior, Bard, Tanks, and Healers all have ways to increase healing received, while all healers have a way to increase the amount of healing from their own GCD heals.. Healing increases, such as Fey Illumination, scale multiplicatively, not additively. Macros are not handled well in FFXIV. Every 3 seconds the game will apply the damage from DoTs that you have ticking. You still lose potency from not using Energy Drain with that aetherflow stack, but that becomes a gain if it saves a GCD heal from either healer. Weaving is ideal for maximizing your DPS. If the party is going to take a 100,000 hit, a PLD using Reprisal will reduce the damage of this by 10%, or 10,000. He also made the graph of party mitigation. This is never the optimal goal, but if you drift your GCD slightly while getting used to the new refresh timing, you are still within raid buffs and the loss is less severe. This can result in a death, so make sure your shields are applied early enough for outgoing damage. This means that you can double weave Seraph and Consolation after Ruin II and potentially save a GCD that would have been a Succor cast. Direct Critical Hits are the real star of having DH. To truly describe how healing functions within this game, one must first understand the idea of opportunity costs. It heals for approximately 224 potency in a 20y area around the fairy. It also increases your fairy gauge by 10, as using any Aetherflow abilities does. This ability doesn’t buff many heals in the SCH’s kit, but is very useful for buffing your cohealers GCD heals, and it will buff your Fairy’s auto heal, Embrace or Seraphic Veil. PC QYTQ 9MY6 First two floors PC 6NKO NW3F (Cellar II boss. Feel free to drop by The Balance discord to ask any questions regarding Scholar or any other job. This was awful for uptime, as multiple people were being forced to move during the mechanic, and was followed by a mechanic that required healers to top the party to full health. It is an instant cast GCD, which means that you can use it to weave oGCDs. Blessing also has the advantage of a massive range. Your CPM, or casts per minute, is one of the most important parts of playing this game. Once you get to the threshold required to get through a fight without running out of MP, Piety becomes a useless and dead stat. If Seraph had to be described in one word, it would be versatile. Yes this line is intentional. It is used in the optimal opener and also aligns with every three minute raid buff window if used on cooldown. It is important to know the difference between them being additive and multiplicative. This is a useful tool that can be used to greatly cut down on healer GCDs that are required. Lastly, potions. Casting a Physick isn’t going to heal enough in most circumstances, even though the 1:1 GCD cost is less per Physick cast. So you summon Seraph, and Seraphic Veil is active in process. As a healer, you need to be vocal and specify where mitigation will save you a heal. Of course there will be some general “how to heal” in this guide, as it is vital to point out the style that SCH uses in its healing. She offers mitigation and a party wide heal over time, which can save numerous healer GCDs. There is no “Main Healer” and “Off Healer”. Depending on differing strategies, different people could need it at various places. Leeches: This spell cleanses the recipient of deleterious effects. This setup has the same three major burst windows, but loses a Trick Attack through the course of the pull. Fey Illumination: 40 Ability Instant — — 15y Increases healing magic potency of all nearby party members by 10%, while reducing magic damage taken by all nearby party members by 5%. This does assume they will get the Afflatus Misery cast and won’t need the lilies for movement/weaving elsewhere. Dissipation is also positive for MP management, as it results in a +300 MP gain on every usage. This assumes that the White Mage doesn’t need to use them for movement/weaving after the downtime. This is extremely heavy hitting, and requires high shielding to survive, but lets the party ignore this part of the mechanic entirely. Because of this, AST can use their Earthly Star, Horoscope, Celestial Opposition, and Collective Unconscious at just about any time. WHM needs them to avoid clipping when using oGCDs. There are rarely some BIS sets that opt into crafted accessories. Sprint also make a difference when it comes to movement. Gyorin the Gunbreaker asks you to keep in mind Reddiquette, follow our community rules, and be civil with your fellow Warriors of Light.. Threads on bad experiences with other players (even anonymous) as well as hate-based comments such as personal attacks, bigotry, hate speech, and name shaming are subject to removal by the moderator team under rule 1. All of the healers in this game have great damage potential. Deployment Tactics at face value is fairly simple. This only heals a single target, but has more potency than any of your GCD based single target heals. This is especially true if Neutral Sect is up, as the raw healing from a GCD under it is massive. Determination is not a bad stat. For an example of scenario #3. If the ability says that it increases healing received “via healing actions,” it will increase the healing received by both GCD heals and oGCD heals. Avoid using her during raid burst damage windows. The above list applies heavily to when gearing up and attempting to work towards your BiS set. This is extremely powerful, and with a short 30s cooldown it is available for most raid-wide hits. A few usages for her are: Using Seraph pre-pull is a good way to get a Consolation on the party before an encounter begins. There are a few that can be useful, such as mouseover macros for Deployment Tactics, but in practice everything can be executed just as well, if not better, without macros. A certain value of this will always be necessary. Seraphic Fragment. Heals and shielding do not apply at once They roll out based on the distance of the target from the Scholar. It will slowly tick up mana over its duration. The question is moreso of whether or not the user wants to use it in the given situation, being that the usage of Dissipation prevents us from using any of our fairy skills for upwards of 30 seconds. On Scholar, eating the 150 potency loss from Energy Drain can result in a gain for your cohealer, which in turn is a gain for overall raid DPS. Fairly self explanatory, the function of this action is something possessed by every healer as well as Red Mage and Summoner. This is relatively niche in a raid setting, used only for key mechanics. It is harsh on our MP, and generally the mitigation from shields is not required for survival, making it a total loss. Plus, it’s recast time is a very short 30s. Because of their 1.5s cast time on Malefic IV, they rarely have to go out of their way to weave. This is a massive potency loss. Biolysis allows you to weave, but it’s a lot less flexible than these other options. It is generally not worth fishing for a critical Adloquium. x4Single4Extra SkillsAuto-AbilitiesAugment to x3Single5Extra SkillsAuto-AbilitiesAugment to x3Single6Extra SkillsAuto-Abilities Its ability level can be raised using the Manasvin Warmech ability card. ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar. There are a few things to know in regards to maximizing your damage potential and getting the most casts off during an encounter. Generally, macros are frowned upon. No shielding skill in the game works like this. This is Scholar’s only GCD heal for AOE healing. In BiS calculations, SPS melds are generally done to meet GCD tiers rather than the very small DoT/AA scaling tiers. This is SCH’s DoT skill. Lower Piety will generally result in higher DPS as long as you have the MP to do DPS. The developers wanted to take some of the responsibility off of the healers, and give a bit more responsibility to the rest of the party. It results in fewer casts in an encounter, thus is a DPS loss. This heal is subject to pet scaling, which means it is not as strong as the potency implies. The more complicated topic of discussion is Early Biolysis refreshes, and these do in fact change our opener. If you are going to have to use GCDs to heal, it is worthwhile to use these to maximize the value of your GCDs. Ruin II is your primary tool for weaving. This puts an enemy to sleep. All of this is very important to Scholars because most of our healing is off the global cooldown. It will give a lot of insight into how their kit functions. I can not thank you enough. Heal over time effects work in the same way in regards to buff and debuff snapshotting. If a tank drops dead after a buster, it is worthwhile to check and make sure that these mitigation tools were present. WHM Afflatus heals have a lengthy list of opportunity costs to consider too, that won’t be covered in the scope of this guide. It also is beneficial mechanics that drop players to one hp, as those do not eat shields like they do player hp. That being said, it is still better to do this if it saves an AST a GCD heal, as it is a 10 potency swing in their favor. This basically guarantees three massive burst windows, which is effective for increasing raid DPS. Both of these occurring on the same hit can result in massive Broil IIIs. Fill out the form below to share your thoughts on the site. Embrace is done automatically when she’s not casting anything else, and we have absolutely no control over it. This means using whatever has the lowest opportunity cost to benefit you and your cohealer. They will absolutely never do what you need, where you need it, unless you tell them to. Many Scholars attempt to shield incoming damage, especially large instances of damage. In the past, there have been several times this methodology has actually been applied. Some fights have big incoming damage in the opener that require the fairy resources within this time frame. As another Aetherflow-tied heal, it again increases your fairy gauge by 10 when used. Sword of Michael (SR)(Fire) 2. Each Aetherflow ability we use grants 10 Fairy Gauge, which can then be used to execute extra fairy abilities. Main stat is generally the second most important stat. It has a base potency of 160. Which one provides more gains is usually dependent on your group’s cooldown usage and the encounter, but just be wary that using Recitation prepull also means it will not be available for the first 75-80 seconds of a fight, depending on how snappy you are using it. This recast time is the time between starting one cast before you’re allowed to do another. This applies to any damage increase, meaning Chain Stratagem, Battle Litany, Trick Attack, or even Potions. This is also one of the biggest losses for all healers. MP wise this is also really pricey. And if there were any HP restored, there is also a shield of the same amount of HP (ie if no HP restore, there is no shield) last 30s. Reducing the damage taken by an attack reduces the healing required, which then increases the amount of DPS healers can do. Dissipation is also very useful if you need to do emergency {!Lustrates}. This skill gets used in the opener, and then is used on cooldown with rare exceptions. Also the final boss theme for Final Fantasy Tactics. Each Energy Drain, even when weaved with Ruin II, is a 10 potency gain. During scenarios like this, it can be beneficial to slightly delay usages to get the full duration out of the buffs. In reality, many of them do not see much use in current content. Piety increases the amount of mana regenerated naturally in battle. For example, Sacred Soil will get 10% more potency when placed upon an Asylum being used, this also applies to whispering dawn and other oGCDs like Indom. Seraphic Veil replaces Embrace when Seraph is active. If you’re trying to top the party before an AOE, Cure III will generally do the job better than a Succor. Check logs to make sure they are actively using their skills, if they aren’t, tell them where to put them. Embrace got a fairly significant potency reduction this expansion, making it much less effective healing wise. Some examples of this are when the party won’t survive without shielding, or when the party has to be at 100% HP. This can be used to spread the effect of a Galvanize from one target to the rest of the party. This isn’t a very common application, but it can be useful if you’re looking to Min/Max your DPS potential. Job content provided by The Balance and the community. It plays a massive part in how much damage we deal, as well as how much we heal. It has quite literally the highest potency of any heal in the game and should be treated as such. When the boss is going to disappear for an extended period of time, it can be used to get one last instance of damage as it leaves. Log In The gains from this will vary, and which fairy skill you use is dependent on how you want your cooldowns to line up the rest of the fight, but it is generally more helpful than you expect. This is your first heal, a carry over from being an Arcanist. These mechanics generally require some kind of shielding to survive comfortably. It is good practice to place Eos/Selene on the tank at the start of a pull. That being said, this shield can prevent another heal from having to be used, negating that loss entirely. The second reason is that casting GCD spells more often also means it may be necessary to have more piety to maintain your mana economy. We usually opt into whatever the highest item level gear is because it has more of this main stat. If they WERE additive, the potency would have been 420. Ideally, Succor should be avoided in favor of other less costly options, such as Indomitability. Direct hit functions as sort of a “mini crit”. There will be times that it is optimal to use this for a guaranteed crit Adlo or crit Succor, but oGCD options are greatly preferred. It is also a fairly weak heal, with only 180 raw healing potency. This is your strongest source of AOE burst healing. Adloquium heals for 300 potency and then provides a shield equalling 125% the amount healed. The reasoning for this is that the raw healing potency from Cure III can make it better than a Succor, even though a WHM’s damage GCD is more potent than Broil III. Have comments you want to share? During progression, generally you will take whatever has the most item level, as the main stat difference is extremely important, plus the added Vitality, and def and m.def on left side pieces, can help you survive mechanics more readily. This is important to understand for Scholars. With that being said, don’t hold Lucid for half of an encounter. Shielding is generally not needed for most raidwides. Wand of Gabriel (SR)(Water) 3. Conversely their Afflatus heals are extremely powerful as they actually give a portion of the damage loss returned with Misery, as long as Misery is able to be cast. Isaac will gain 3 soul hearts and permanent flight after picking up 3 or more of the following items. The more of it we stack, the greater returns. This ability also guarantees that they will consume neither MP or Aetherflow. You get three stacks every 60s, and they give you access to your most powerful abilities. Every missed tick is 70 potency lost. It also reduced party magic damage taken by 5%. Without you, this would not have been completed. If the tank is at 100% HP, and Seraph casts a heal on them for 3k, the tank still gets a 3k shield even if they didn't actually restore any HP. Abuse the 30s duration on Horoscope. It sucks when this happens, so attempt to avoid it. (Assuming they are within a 10y radius of the target). This skill also locks you out of Seraph, which is one of SCH’s most powerful tools. It is instant, which gives you a little less than 2.5s to throw in things like Sacred Soil or Excogitation. Be wary of the MP cost associated with this though, as it adds up fairly quickly. Dead DPS do no DPS. MP wise, this ability is pretty pricey. This can be especially important for BRD, which wants to snapshot its DoTs in raid buffs. Character profile for Seraphic Radiance. We have a lot of options to regenerate our MP and a pretty constant flow of MP between Aetherflow, and we also have Lucid Dreaming, a 21s MP refresh on a 60s cooldown. Consider that the largest gain to spell speed is gaining GCDs to deal more damage. The second example is if shielding a mechanic could save you an additional GCD heal. The second instance is less common, but is still useful to take note of. If Earthly comes off cooldown a few seconds before a raidwide, it can be beneficial to place Earthly and immediately Detonate it if it will get you above the HP threshold for survival and save the SCH an oGCD cast. Final Fantasy XIV Pro, Database and Community. That being said, this is good for slow movement and when executed properly do do not lose any DPS while slidecasting. This ability heals for 800 potency when procced, and the proc occurs when your target drops below 50% of their health, or automatically heals them if the timer runs out. Seraphic Veil is over double the healing potency when accounting for the shield (400 vs 150) and Consolation/Fey Blessing is similar (600 vs 350) so I feel like that's kind of downplaying it a little bit. Below is an example of one such setup using MNK. Leader of the mythical demons known as the Lucavi, she was resurrected by possessing Ramza's sister, Alma. Using Ruin II to weave fairy heals is an 90 potency loss, which is the difference between it and a Broil III. Avoid using other heals during the HoT’s duration if possible, as its ticks are wasted if you use an Indom to cap the party while the HoT is ticking. Single target healing the tank when it is taking heavy damage. Keep your GCD rolling. Basically, Seraphic Veil is stronger version of embrace (400 potency including shield), Consolation is a stronger version of Fey Blessing with 2 charges (600/1200 including shield), while the other 2 abilities are just carbon copies from original Fey abilities , only with a prettier icon. watch 02:39. These are your bread and butter abilities that will cover the overwhelming majority of your healing in raids. It is affected by Spell Speed. Earthly Star, while it is 200 damage potency at full charge, can be beneficial even when uncharged. It is not worth it to hold this as the loss in DPS is generally not worth the healing. This means that DoTs retain any buff (or debuff) that was out when the DoT was applied, even after said buff falls off. Critical Hit is our most influential stat when it comes to DPS and healing. Large spreadsheets done by Nemekh and Allagan Studies (formerly known as TheoryJerks). This skill turns your next cast of Succor or Adlo into a completely raw heal, the healing potency that would have cone to the shield becomes direct healing, as long as it is cast within the 15s duration of this buff. Thanks to all the groups and people I’ve run with who have made me the player I am today. There are many possible usages for her. Using collective to mitigate a raid wide and letting it tick to heal the party is incredibly useful during these times as well. GCD heals have the lowest priority, though there are some circumstances in which a GCD can outweigh an oGCD as discussed later. It is not a giant gain, but it can add up. Holding Chain here to get it during the later Meteor cast, where there was no other outgoing damage, was a pretty sizable gain.Another example of this is the second Celestriad in God Kefka, the eighth floor of Stormblood’s savage raids. Another added benefit of Emergency Tactics is that by turning the shield into a direct heal, the potency is applied immediately to party members. Please tell me if I understand this correctly. If the Scholar also uses Sacred Soil, it will reduce the 90,000 damage by 9,000, making the new value 8,100. This skill has two charges with a 20 second recast time. This means that a Broil III under Trick Attack (5%) and Divination (6%) is around 323 potency. It has a 1.5s cast time, which means that it also allows one oGCD to be weaved after it with no loss or GCD clip. For example, if an AOE requires shielding, it can be better to have a Warrior use Shake It Off to save a Succor cast. To the best of our knowledge, the fairy heals on a mixed priority system. This is assuming a 12 minute pull. This means that when we take damage, the shield will be absorbed before our actual HP bars drop in health. For healers, our main stat is Mind. The AI will randomly choose one (?) A fragment from a forbidden great axe. As such, here is the early Bio refresh options: FFXIV revolves entirely around server ticks. Summoning Seraph automatically replaces your Fey skills with their Seraph variants. It ends up being MP positive for every stack used on Energy Drain. However, there are times where shielding is necessary. Note that all Fairy abilities originate from the Fairy, but must be command as an oGCD from the Scholar. Noticed something great? If you get an open spot to weave it, feel free. The high amount of substats that can be obtained through overmelding on crafted accessories can make them a valuable option.