The Scholar is a healing job in Final Fantasy XIV that conjures faeries to aid in battle and support allies. Players must specialize in the Scholar job once they reach level 30, and complete the quests Sylph-management and Sinking Doesmaga. This guide provides information on the Scholar job, including actions, traits, and job gauge.
The Scholar can be played in level 100 trials and raids, and players should place skills on their hotbar in a way that mirrors the setup for AST. They can also use the Aetherflow mechanic, which can be used on various healing skills or abilities. Scholars can use Energy Drain, an Aetherflow spell in Final Fantasy 14, as a mechanic.
To unlock the Scholar, players must first reach level 30 on Arcanist and complete the level 30 class quest “Sinking Doesmaga”. They must also learn how to use the Aetherpact ability, which will enable the Faerie Gauge. The Scholar is an upgrade from the arcanist class and is one of four Healer jobs.
In addition to its PvP actions and limit break, the Scholar job has rotations at regular levels and for every expansion. Players can watch videos along with job quests to learn their skills, and they cannot learn skills without the expansions.
In summary, the Scholar is a crucial job in Final Fantasy XIV, introduced alongside the Discipline of Magic Arcanist in A Realm Reborn.
📹 A Beginner’s Guide to SCHOLAR | FFXIV
(6.58) Time for Scholar! A fun shield healer that I don’t really play too often. Still a really good beginner class if you’ve managed to …
📹 Everything You Need To Know About Scholar | FFXIV Beginner’s Guide
Scholar is the first shield based healer available in Final Fantasy 14. It’s also one of the more confusing jobs for people to …
It should be noted from the time you learn Art of War at 46, until Broil Mastery at 54, Art of War is your best damaging attack over Ruin (same potency, no cast time, plus you can get in autos!) so your rotation at 50 can just be keeping up Bio II and using Art of War every GCD, even in single target.
It’s worth noting that Fey Illumination only increases healing done by Spells (Like Physick, Adlo, and Succor), not abilities (Lustrate, Embrace, Whispering Dawn, Sacred Soil, Excog, etc). One should also try to shield the tank before the next pull/ immediately after the previous pull, but not during as to not gain accidental aggro. Nice crisp foundational guide!
I happened to just look up Slidecasting, and apparently you can move as soon as the mana is actually spent. Others recommended just leaving an emote on the hotbar as it’s disabled (dimmed) while casting, and lights up as soon as you can move safely. So those are two visual cues for when you can move.
Solid intro guide. Love the way you break it down. I find it helpful to “place” my fairy for bosses, then call her back to “heel” before moving on to next area. Both commands are on the pet bar and it helps her be in range for whole party. If you don’t call her back to “heel” she will despawn. Also, Repose can interrupt. It’s rarely needed has a cast time vs insta but I have it on my third row for giggles. Swift cast + Adlo for big pulls is helpful on the move SCH at 90 is the best healer ❤🧚
Hm…I never considered using Rescue to pull an ally into certain death. The whole, “if I’m going down, you’re going down with me.” Thanks for the tip! I really love Scholar. Mine is at 89 (so close to 90) and is my highest job so far. It has such a nice flow to it. One thing I want to know though, is there much point in using Physick once Adloquium is unlocked? I know it’s a difference of direct/shield healing, but it just doesn’t fit into a handy spot on my skill bar the way I have my controller set up.
I just pick up scholar and don’t know if I can play it. Not because it is bad but because I can’t pay attention when playing it. White mage i get blinding holy spells flash banging me to keep my attention, sage I have eukrasian to flip on and off for no reason and kardia swapping between targets, and with astro I have cards to play with. Scholar the fairy does everything for me. I place it down and spam ruin. The last 2 dungeons I have let my tank die not because I couldnt heal them but because I was looking at the second monitor mid pulls and my tank stood in an AOE and I didnt see until too late.
There is a useful macro for controlling your fairy in the article description. Also I want to clarify a couple of things. During arr section for dungeons I mentioned that you should alternated between aldo and physick during heavy damage sections where your spamming. This is an example of me recommending something that will help alleviate a problem I see many new scholars struggle with which is mana, but is not the best way to handle things as in most cases you’ll be better off alternating between aldo and a damaging ability giving the shield time to break before using adlo again; however, this requires you to be comfortable with letting damage happen which is something that as a healer you do need to get accustom to, but it’s also increadibly scary and difficult habit to build for new players. The next example of point where I was being overly cautious is with sacred soil. Until you get the regen it is better to use the extra lustrate instead of the soil. The reason I recommending using it 1.) It’s easy to was the potency of a lustrate compared to the guaranteed mitigation of soil 2.) It helps build the habit of using the ability. That being said I do think upon further reflection that it would have been better to just stress the point that you need to start letting tanks drop lower so you can get more out of your heals.
Some comments on dungeon healing: 1. You don’t need to DoT as the tank pulls. You can just spam Art of War. As a SCH, you should always aim to be side by side (or just ahead of) the tank to ensure this is possible. Don’t fallback to DoTs unless you happen to fall behind. 2. You should not place Soil until it gains the regeneration property. I understand you want to make this guide as simple as possible, but you’re cutting a Lustrate by doing this; in early levels, this is a massive loss that will make healing much harder. 3. I do not recommend refreshing Adloqium when stopping. You should be spamming Art of War the whole time. As any healer, you want to kill enemies quickly to reduce incoming damage. However, as a SCH, this is even more important, because once you’ve run out of CDs your GCDs are difficult to fall back on. Your GCD throughput is pitiful. 4. Never, ever alternate Physick with Adloqium. This is a terrible habit. So much of your healing will be wasted, your mana will drain very quickly, and enemies will die slowly, which will strap you for resources. If you absolutely must spam heals, you’d be better off spamming Adloqium since it will still heal more overall. (Don’t do that either, though. Heal spamming is an awful habit.) 5. Deploying off of yourself after the tank’s shield breaks is a neat trick, but realistically, it’s not often practical. The tank would have to be extremely slow to allow you to cast so many Adloqiums before reaching the next pack. 6. Dissipation in dungeons has one of two roles.
Thank you for this. I’ve been trying to watch as many scholar articles as I can to learn since I leveled scholar as others have done as leveling summoner to 100. I aim to learn all the jobs in the game so I can flip to whatever my FC or friends need and I’ve always wanted to use scholar over sage for shield healing as it does look like more fun for a shield healer. I’ve been using (for other noobs like me) duty support on dungeons to learn that level range of healing as scholar. Sure the npcs are slow, but it’s better to fail with them over randoms in PF. Are there any dungeons you can suggest to use as benckmarks in scholar healing? Only big ones I have is Artum Vale for ARR and then the Mothercrystal Trial with the Scions in EW.
9:37 you should not use soil in ARR dungeons, unless the trash can deal 6000 healing potency worth of damage. Lustrate is better before soil gives regen. imo soil is also kinda bad in normal raids as well before it gets the regen, as it just doesn’t block that much damage. It is goated in MINE extremes/savages though