Greetings Ladies and Gentlemen,
my name is Zed and I am in a Scholar midlife crisis. Or whatever you want to call the annoyingly frustrating state (of mind) I am in right now. As hardcore Red Mage fan I usually commence my duties as a red-clad Jack of all Trades™. My secondy role has been Scholar since 2014. Yes, I took a long break, but still, Scholar was great and I had a 50/50 ratio between Black Mage and Scholar. When I returned a half year ago, I started Heavensward and played Scholar there exclusively. So it was a 100% Scholar ratio in dungeons and such. I enjoyed it pretty much (on my way to be a fully-trained Red Mage).
Then there was the big change of our stuff with Shadowbringers - you remember your skillbar with lots of crossed-out icons, right? - and since then, I am literally unable to get any further. As I wait for my cousin to catch up, I am basically a Level 60 Scholar playing dungeons around Level 60. All fine so far - except I can't get back to it. It's like I lost the golden thread and I can not really grasp the idea of the Scholar around/after Level 60. It's really hard to put in words what I am trying to say, but you realize: I am lost. And it frustrates me so much!
Yesterday I picked up the book and summoned my Selene for an Aetherochemical Research Facility run for/with my cousin. And boy, I hated it. We did not wipe, we had not had any vitality problems, but the flow was gone for me. I was so disappointed by the entire gameplay and that the spark did not ignite (read as: Being a Scholar was a joy and fun in the past years, yesterday I really loathed it) that my cousin tried and had to cheer me up over Discord. Go figure! Two grown men..
I absolutely love Red Mage. But I like to have a dedicated healer for a change, and Scholar is the way to go for me. Or was. But right now, I dislike the current gameplay and the future gameplay looks rather odd when I read trough the Job Guide.
I just can't find a real "theme" of how to set up my hotbar even, it's looking like a Swiss cheese since a couple of months. Do you see how confused I am when I am not even able to set up my skills.
It must be me for sure, so you can maybe give me a bit input, point a bit into the direction or, like, help me out of that?
Things I can't get over are:
* Fairy management - Fair enough, as Level 60, I am maybe right in front of the next class mechanic or something, but right now as I stand, I don't feel I enjoy the "fairy management". She is more of a nuisiance im terms of management and control, like those annoying "follow-AI NPC" in games that get you a GAME OVER (Golden Eye on the N64 anyone...?). Eos/Selene is great, and I like the design idea, but she is camouflage in the boss fights, blown all over the place which makes it hard to use her properly after you realizing she just cast her AoE in the corner of the boss arena, affecting NO ONE. Since she is hard to spot in the visual clutter, it makes it even worse to have my fairy as a companion instead of a toddler I have to supervise 24/7.
* I can't get any sort of flow into this profession. I may be spoiled by Red Mage, but I struggle so much to understand the flow here. Having a clean "plan" in mind is what I'd like, e.g. "When X happens, I can do A or B". Me ingame: "OMG, I heal-spam like a madman without any sense."
* I am not interested in any other healer. Pure White Magic is nothing I want and Astrologican is like someone else is doing the healing and I would be just the medium. I could understand that I am too dumb for Scholar (kind of a pun) and you would probably suggest White Mage, but I like Scholar in the past and felt well-prepared, why should that have changed?
* Is Scholar ... "less desired" compared to the others? Is the current (or future) stand of this profession getting worse by design? I don't know what Square Enix is going to do with this profession, but it feels as we are just the non-FF profession and they don't want "us". I feel much better dishing out two Vercures on my Red Mage then being the dedicated healer for 30 minutes.
So, the first portion is "Just me" sort of issue, but the latter one...? Help...
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my name is Zed and I am in a Scholar midlife crisis. Or whatever you want to call the annoyingly frustrating state (of mind) I am in right now. As hardcore Red Mage fan I usually commence my duties as a red-clad Jack of all Trades™. My secondy role has been Scholar since 2014. Yes, I took a long break, but still, Scholar was great and I had a 50/50 ratio between Black Mage and Scholar. When I returned a half year ago, I started Heavensward and played Scholar there exclusively. So it was a 100% Scholar ratio in dungeons and such. I enjoyed it pretty much (on my way to be a fully-trained Red Mage).
Then there was the big change of our stuff with Shadowbringers - you remember your skillbar with lots of crossed-out icons, right? - and since then, I am literally unable to get any further. As I wait for my cousin to catch up, I am basically a Level 60 Scholar playing dungeons around Level 60. All fine so far - except I can't get back to it. It's like I lost the golden thread and I can not really grasp the idea of the Scholar around/after Level 60. It's really hard to put in words what I am trying to say, but you realize: I am lost. And it frustrates me so much!
Yesterday I picked up the book and summoned my Selene for an Aetherochemical Research Facility run for/with my cousin. And boy, I hated it. We did not wipe, we had not had any vitality problems, but the flow was gone for me. I was so disappointed by the entire gameplay and that the spark did not ignite (read as: Being a Scholar was a joy and fun in the past years, yesterday I really loathed it) that my cousin tried and had to cheer me up over Discord. Go figure! Two grown men..
I absolutely love Red Mage. But I like to have a dedicated healer for a change, and Scholar is the way to go for me. Or was. But right now, I dislike the current gameplay and the future gameplay looks rather odd when I read trough the Job Guide.
I just can't find a real "theme" of how to set up my hotbar even, it's looking like a Swiss cheese since a couple of months. Do you see how confused I am when I am not even able to set up my skills.
It must be me for sure, so you can maybe give me a bit input, point a bit into the direction or, like, help me out of that?
Things I can't get over are:
* Fairy management - Fair enough, as Level 60, I am maybe right in front of the next class mechanic or something, but right now as I stand, I don't feel I enjoy the "fairy management". She is more of a nuisiance im terms of management and control, like those annoying "follow-AI NPC" in games that get you a GAME OVER (Golden Eye on the N64 anyone...?). Eos/Selene is great, and I like the design idea, but she is camouflage in the boss fights, blown all over the place which makes it hard to use her properly after you realizing she just cast her AoE in the corner of the boss arena, affecting NO ONE. Since she is hard to spot in the visual clutter, it makes it even worse to have my fairy as a companion instead of a toddler I have to supervise 24/7.
* I can't get any sort of flow into this profession. I may be spoiled by Red Mage, but I struggle so much to understand the flow here. Having a clean "plan" in mind is what I'd like, e.g. "When X happens, I can do A or B". Me ingame: "OMG, I heal-spam like a madman without any sense."
* I am not interested in any other healer. Pure White Magic is nothing I want and Astrologican is like someone else is doing the healing and I would be just the medium. I could understand that I am too dumb for Scholar (kind of a pun) and you would probably suggest White Mage, but I like Scholar in the past and felt well-prepared, why should that have changed?
* Is Scholar ... "less desired" compared to the others? Is the current (or future) stand of this profession getting worse by design? I don't know what Square Enix is going to do with this profession, but it feels as we are just the non-FF profession and they don't want "us". I feel much better dishing out two Vercures on my Red Mage then being the dedicated healer for 30 minutes.
So, the first portion is "Just me" sort of issue, but the latter one...? Help...
Continue reading...