10 Reasons to Play a Scholar in FFXIV

Scholar is awesome!
This is the second video of my 10 reasons to play every Final Fantasy 14 job series! I'm not the best Scholar player but it was fun challenging myself by playing a shield healer.
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[@linus11vf1j]

Scholars do in fact slap enemies with the book. It even does more dmg than a lot of actual weapons for an auto attack.

[@Xylus.]

yep. i remember actually laughing out load when i realized my auto attack was wacking some low level enemy with a book. It's super unnecessary min/max, but there is a certain level range (which slips my mind) where art of war is actually a dps gain on 1 enemy becuase of auto attack damage. That book has some real pointy edges lmao

[@midi5467]

I was gonna say: I remember Scholar from FF3 smacking enemies with their book so I tried it in 14 and was very satisfied!

[@howdoilogin]

WHY. DO SCHOLAR AND SUMMONER. DO MORE DAMAGE. ON AN AUTO-ATTACK. THAN RED MAGE.

[@gregorydeleon8373]

@@howdoiloginknowledge is power

[@Kenshin6321]

Fun fact: Scholars and Summoner's have the strongest auto attack amongst all mage classes. Smacking people with your book is rather effective it seems.

[@utau2746]

They have a stronger auto attack than Red Mage. I guess when the pen isn’t mightier than the sword, try the whole book

[@Doku71]

A book is a concentrated mass. While I do enjoy stick bonk, book thunk is a lot more effective. Try swinging a 40s medical book around, those things got heft. A 50 AE struggled to pierce that thing.

[@vinn9823]

The only reason I started playing it was because of the fairy and fairy = cute

[@seraphlord]

its lvl 90... but ive never played SCH outside of using it for its job quests XD too many buttons hard pass

[@CalamitasDeus]

Blue mage. Gimme.

[@Puggle-bot]

You 100% can smack a boss with your book via auto attack 😂 You just have to be close lol I've made a few people laugh running up and smacking a boss during raids 😂

[@izcube8971]

STOP *[SMACK]* DAMAGING *[SMACK]* MY *[SMACK]* TEAM *[SMACK]* YOU *[SMACK]* IGNORAMOUS! *[SMACK]*

[@FutayuriShironeko]

As a Selene Main I haven't forgiven SE for making me pretend I still have her with faerie glamour.

[@josephtidwell4845]

Or the fact they literally gave us her in the form of seraphim =/ I haven't played since storm blood seeing as my PC crashed so very excited to see it coming to series X finally

[@cparle87]

You've only ever had one fairy, her name is Lily. Eos and Selene are simply her modes.

[@josephtidwell4845]

@cparle87 wrong. I originally played from launch on PC up to around stormbloods release. SCH definitely had 2 different fairies Eos your general auto healer bot, and Selene was more of a buffer with the ability of granting haste and defenses to your group. I remember sometime after Seraphims release Idk when but I know at Seraphims release Selene was still a separate Fairy from Eos.

[@cparle87]

@@josephtidwell4845 I'm saying there are the same entity, just different modes. You don't have two different fairies named Eos and Selene. You have one fairy named Lily who has Eos and Selene forms.

[@venti9925]

​@@josephtidwell4845lmao fail

[@UmbralRYT]

As one of the sch mains, I can say that thick yellow bar is our addiction

[@sleepygummi]

Umbral spotted in the wild!

[@bender9740]

Yes, big crit, big happy.

[@wezzco_br8169]

Umbral!

[@Kenshin6321]

Absolutely agreed. One thing I like to do is when is Recitation + Adloquium on a lowe level player just to see a shield that's twice as big as their HP bar.

[@Nobody1707]

Big yellow bar is why high crit is optimal healer gear and direct hit is garbage.

[@FantogemeStudios]

For me, it was the opposite. I leveled Scholar exclusively and never touched Summoner. Scholar happens to be my main job, I find it the most relaxing? It just has a flow to it that jives with my brain naturally. Also the Heavensward Artifact gear is the best one.

[@InMooseWeTrust]

Level up scholar because instant queue

[@whitewachtel405]

As a scholar main too, I always describe it as a lazy healer because for me it feels so chill to play. But now seeing this video mention how many abilities it has, that it's more proactive than a white mage, maybe harder in endgame, and that you have to divide your healing between yourself and the fairy, I can see why people might find it complicated. But me personally, I don't think about all these things at all why playing, I just do them naturally at this point. Maybe that's a sign of job mastery though. :D

[@FantogemeStudios]

@@whitewachtel405 For me its mostly about resource management and planning. Like knowing what to do in every situation using whats in your tool kit. Its so simple, yet seems like most people struggle with playing in that ruleset. Like Scholar is super veristile if you play it strategically. But you need to have that particular mindset or you're going to have a bad time. Overall, I think its awesome because it makes you feel smart.

[@henrychurch6062]

If I right click an enemy, and I hit them with my book for 890 damage... that isn't 890 damage from the impact, that's eight hundred and ninety separate papercuts for 1 HP of damage each delivered with the absolute precision of a master of battlefield control.

[@minarie2865]

My scholar experience in a nutshell lvl 30 to 89: suffering lvl 90: wait, it's actually fun to play...WHAT?!

[@ShallieDragon]

I really appreciate that, even if you don't like a particular job, you still give 10 compelling reasons why you should play it. I think a lot of creators would be tempted to make a joke video about the job they don't like, full of backhanded compliments and sarcasm. But yours is full of genuinely good reasons to play the job, even though it's not for you. Which is really admirable.

[@Disig]

Avy, get in melee range as SCH, we DO wack mobs with books! Hell during Susano my group decided to let me block Susano's sword (at level 80) and YOU JUST STRAIHT UP USE YOUR BOOK. It's amazing!

[@25xxfrostxx]

Scholar is my favorite healer over all. It has a tool for almost every situation. It definitely has a different flow and feel than others but I just meshed with it.

[@Zingdo]

The appeal of bludgeoning something to death with a book is pretty nice. Or am I playing scholar wrong

[@alchemi8085]

I did the old "level-summoner-to-90-then-try-scholar" experience.

[@d1ssolv3r]

how does that go? i'm new and lvling summoner but i want to try scholar too. kinda scared of learning all the skills at once but i guess it'll be fine lol

[@alchemi8085]

@@d1ssolv3r Sorry for the late response. I definitely had to just go back to the lower level dungeons and learn my skills. It's not bad :)

[@LordCullBot]

I did the same, I'm having fun with scholar

[@Jeezes718]

You may as well do summoner while arcanist is fresh on the brain. Talk about how carbuncles used to be 10 ft tall with horns, claws, and fangs back in pandemonium, lol.

[@Honatuto]

My vote's for Bard. Besides having a frantic rotation at endgame, the glamours are always on point... and beyond that, you can always use Performance -> Trombone -> C B B-flat A (long note)

[@noop2doop]

I'm a newbie arcanist rn having a little buddy to summon and access to a healing and dps class were the two main reasons I picked it.

[@sonoskay]

It's a great way to solo the game. It's not such a big issue now, but using summoner to do solo duties, and scholar to do dungeons for the fast dungeon queues works very well.

[@Splizacular]

Gotta laugh at the fact that the comments from ppl bashing books are also barely legible comments...coincidence?

[@MonokeShadow]

I play Scholar as main from the start.. It was my first job in FF and after all time I still love this job :) after remove selene just switch to eos and take a glam on her ^^ But Selene is much more beautiful than Eos :-D and Scholar glams? I love their skirts ... my Au Ra looks amazing in them :)

[@heathenselfhealer4339]

Scholar is still the only healer I ever loved

[@ubessa_]

Reason 11: if u get close to enemies and let auto-attack on, u do a bonk

[@rathernot6509]

and that bonk is free potency even when you green-DPS with spells don't go out of your way to bonk, but also keep AA on

[@frankbrodie5168]

I leveled both SCH and WHM healers to cap on my first few characters just running the daily main scenario roulette. When that was still fun in the 8 player instance. SCH is to my mind at least, comfortably the easiest job to run the MSQ well into Shadowbringers with. That's me speaking as a middle aged man with crappy reactions these days. Switch to SMN for any of the mandatory 8 player trials to remove any challenge there also. (I'm looking at you Crystal Tower mandatory bollocks) No (MSQ) solo instance up to that point will give you even a modicum of challenge on the very easy setting with a fairie constantly healing you.

[@cparle87]

Scholar rotation is as follows. Smack ground, smack ground, smack ground, smack ground, return to start.

[@ariannahamel9867]

Astrologian would be interesting, I am an astro main and it has very interesting abilities, like scholar it is hard to master but is rewarding in many ways, including beautiful animations and the best LB3

[@medivh1035]

In open world, l can have 3 things following me. Chocobo, fairie, And minion. Feel good

[@KeLamity_Ch]

I only need one reason. Art of War go brrrrrr

[@ericcarneiro374]

I main sch and pld, and I do both because big shields, big mits, big defenses, no one touches my team only I. *bookslap*

[@mindfighter1]

My favorite class is Machinist. I love committing war crimes!

[@SageofLight777]

Scholar took a while to click for me when I first started playing it, before it became the sole healer I played for the longest time. Now I swap between it and White Mage whenever I want to heal.

[@jamierose9095]

If you ever need any advice about SCH in the future you can ask me, I main it.

[@bloodshade1650]

ah yes dps queues i remember having to wait for 2 hours to fight ravana, which i needed for the msq. i then switched to sage and now i basically have no queue time anymore.

[@midnightwolf333]

7:14 Our auto attack is a book smack and I love it. Also art of war punching the ground. Selene was yeeted because yes.

[@aShadowWizard69]

valid reasons but counter point: book learns for nerds

[@damiens4601]

How do you play with this hot barsetup Oo?

[@Norbert_Sattler]

When I started playing scholar, I interpreted the tooltip to mean, that the shield spells will only add as much shield, as they heal, and thus would be entirely useless against someone on full health, until a nice person in a duty corrected my mistake. As for the second fairy, it was turned into a skin. You can switch between the Eos and Selene look with a chat command. You can also turn your fairy into a Carbuncle, if you prefer that, with the same command. But I don't remember it off the top of my head and would have to look it up. Hmm... speaking of which, what happens when you have your fairy glamoured into a carbuncle and use summon Seraph? Do you still get a big fairy, or something else? I've never tried. Scholars (and summoners) do actually smack the enemy with their books, if you auto-attack in close combat. ;) If you do the reaper, please asks Jocat to use the Spooky Slice song and if he agrees, make it one of the ten reasons. :D

[@Lurker1991]

Sadly, you can't change Seraph with /egiglamour "pet name" "pet you want it to be", she'll always be that one. And petglam stays till you change it yourself, even through log out and log in. And I might have written summoner's pet glam instead, but it's either /egiglamour or /petglamour at the start. Edit: And Jocat song is definitely one reason to play reaper 😀

[@Raionhardt]

what a cute video for "bad sage"

[@bender9740]

Listen, as a Scholar main, I will say it's the best job. No bias whatsoever, nope, none.

[@doomoftheend]

7. "Summoners have beautiful animations" You mean scholars, right? XD

[@avycatte]

My brain is soup. Shh. No one else noticed. 👀

[@LivvieLynn]

TheLittleMaiden's video on Selene was so sad. Miss having her around outside of glamours.

[@mkdynasty272]

Gunbreaker or Macinist

[@TifaeTele]

Your videos are so cute!

[@TheLittlehopeful]

Avtcatte dark hair era? I’m all for it! This actually makes me want to try out scholar tbh

[@7Celestron]

#givescholarsamegapunch

[@Dyxid]

I actually disliked that Scholar and Summoner leveled together because I enjoyed playing as both but if I reached the cap on one, the other did too automatically. Would have much preferred White and Black Mage were tethered together so I could have skipped leveling Black Mage entirely, lol.

[@ode-blu]

Eos gang RISE

[@greisquirrel]

I'm also a person who is satisfied for those shield healers when they drop a huge shield on someone. I also tell them the shields are nice in chat 😂

[@MarioSonic46]

I was afraid to play Scholar, but I eventually decided to try it. Only to find out that being level 90 Summoner also makes Scholar 90 so I don't have to play it! (Also can confirm that both classes smack enemies with the book if close enough.)

[@aldenencluna6409]

Nice.

[@die-mango-tv7134]

can we all agree to throw her into Tank hell next so she'll have an absolute brain root? I think that would be funny having a screaming Avy

[@bellamango6708]

you can still get selene its just glam now go back to the arcanist guild owo makes sense since they got rid of the faeries separate skills two expansions ago...

[@VashimuXIV]

I keep forgetting Scholar and Summoner level at the same time.. I need to get off my butt and do the role quests. I love the aesthetic and job fantasy, and I am sure it’s not that hard.

[@harukuroma376]

You probably leveled Summoner and ended up with lvl 90 Scholar as bonus 💀

[@kakarottuzumaki4346]

8:40 Min.: Astro. Reasons: Because i grow up with star storys like the greek old storys and with yugioh. So its somthing realy nostaligic to me. The the stances are nice. YEAH Square disalbe them but i want them back. You can perfectly fit in EVERY groupe back them. I miss them. And then its the ONLY healer that can BUFF outhers. I love this that i can buff outhers and help with there dps. Let me i have a helper syndrom! .-. And the healing is now direct. I love it to heal directly :3 And hey its realy bussy job so its not boring to play for me :D Enjoi making a video about my main ^^ I dont judge you if you use a part of my takes for the video or make a silly yugioh joke :D But hey have a great day at least :3

[@charonib]

Just started 14 last month, and made the choice of Scholar as my starting job. It’s my first time ever playing a healer in an RPG, and I’m having a blast so far.

[@VoltKraken5555]

*places faerie in center of boss arena* *forgets to use heel after boss* "why is my faerie not healing the tank? oh...." *recasts summon eos* ... happens more often than I care to admit

[@hurri-db]

You're a bad girl, you did some bad things, you swear you did it all for fun and it meant nothing, it never happened, it was a secret Also scholar has the best socks in the game. Yes. They're amazing. 😊

[@TheKrazykoolkat]

I wanted summoner but dps ques were so bad I hates school so much but I grit my teeth healed dungeons then turned out I loved the class and ended up as a sch main for a long long time never then rlly played smn after then 😅

[@raleo7466]

I tried scholar but I drop it at 70 for sage. I'm just not a fan of the fairy and aetherpact and her delayed (so delayed) abilities and having to waste my GCD shielding. Like I loved excog but I also have bene or essential dignity in other healers. And sage just has everything. Pasive heal not linked to a pet? Checked. oGCD shielding capabilities? Checked. Panic button for huge AoE healing without sucking your MP bar dry? Checked. White mages bell but from the beginning and in party and individual sizes? Checked and checked. I just dislike Scholar the most out of all healers, even below astrologian and that job needs 5 buttons gone before DT

[@Mazed927]

No, no. No, that REALLY IS the early game Scholar experience. You're basically just farting out an Adloquium every ten minutes, for no specific reason, just to remind yourself that you're technically a healer while the fairy does all the heavy lifting. The exact, specific moment this stops being not ALWAYS the objectively correct tactic is Brayflox's Longstop, but in case you didn't get the idea then, Stone Vigil is happy to spell it out just a few levels later. For your suggestion: I would LOVE to see a take on *Monk.* I feel like it's a bit...misunderstood; that it's thought to be harder than it really is. I've been maining it on and off since 1.0 so I'm probably biased, but I think it very, very much fits the description of easy to play casually, but kicks stupid amounts of ass as you eventually get all galaxy-brained on optimizing it.

[@zwei0ni715]

by the time i finish post heavensward ill have all jobs to 90 even crafters i gotta be one of the most easily distracted sprouts especially since its my first mmo , i still cant believe that the /eategg video is what sealed the deal for me to start playing but thank you

[@goldknyfeplus]

I liked the part where you did the thing, said a funny and i went haha 10/10 video would watch again

[@EnvyTooGoon]

Ooooh, maybe try dragoon! As a dragoon main, I love when peeps talk about it.

[@Eddy_Whimage]

You've done a healer and DPS, so how about a tank next? PLD plz! :D

[@Yamidoragon]

Yeah I actually smacked enemies while leveling and it was very satisfying

[@AngryDigitalNerd]

I main a dark knight and a paladin and I rather not have a scholar as a healer because the majority of players that play as one are downright terrible! (and yes I have a lvl 90 scholar before you ask)

[@seohiroth7]

I laughed when she called the fairy an emergency snack at 4:38. 😂😂😂

[@GWRaynor]

I absolutely love Scholar, it's my favorite job. It has such a diverse toolkit that makes it incredibly versatile. There really isn't any kind of situation that the Scholar doesn't have an answer for. I also love the more proactive playstyle, as it reminds me of playing Protection Monk back in my Guild Wars 1 days. Sharing a level with Summoner is a nice bonus.

[@chrisfuerte1622]

Reason 1. C Reason 2. H Reason 3. A Reason 4. I Reason 5. N Reason 6. S Reason 7. T Reason 8. R Reason 9. A Reason 10. T

[@Akredi]

To keep with the steampunkish style, machinist next ?

[@TheDragonboy34]

Let's be honest most of us only have lvl 90 scholar cause they share their lvl with summoner

[@Caramelo25]

Im new and im afraid to do bad with scholar then i may be begin with white mage, idk

[@ShortiiTV]

Can someone tell me what are those shoes and that skirt? I want them now🤣🤣 thanks to everyone ❤

[@moderndaymozart9386]

1. reason, play scholar if u hate urself

[@landoh2885]

I’m like 90% the auto attack smacks the enemy with a book.

[@Raoul9753]

3:57 "Scholar and some Nerd level together"

[@ridewild1956]

this kind of video is really needed for people who want to do all the jobs but are intimidated to actually even start them, especially considering what the reward for getting all the jobs before endwalker to 80 is

[@InMooseWeTrust]

What is the reward?

[@ridewild1956]

@@InMooseWeTrust an armaro mount

[@Sab_Aria]

THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH Avy!!💗💜💖💟💝^_^

[@michaelpainter7406]

SCH with only Eos healing? Based.

[@Sab_Aria]

Can you do Dancer or Reaper next please?❤

[@octaviad3997]

Relatable the drunk and leveled up to 90 xD

[@greatestcait]

I would love to see Dark Knight next up

[@greenbloodwolf]

Vote for gunbreaker, the best red tank

[@S3rp3rior]

Summoner next! Summoner next!!!!

[@adrevenue726]

Summoner should be the next one

[@chrispysaid]

I love your videos so much

[@ScaryClownProduction]

Next should be a tank

[@aldmarius1060]

Please do black mage!!!

[@Isredel]

Reason #1 B A R R I E R

[@JaniKuukkanen]

BONK WITH THE BOOK!!111

[@KarasKenji]

We need more glam slots

[@wiccapriestess]

ninja I love that job

[@pres002]

Nah sch is too slow now

[@LetMeSoloThemER]

"East to learn"

[@zirilan3398]

Do DRG next so you can: -get memed on with creative takes such as floortank and loldrg -suffer from servertick-kills because Star Diver takes 5 milion years to finish -you can do it all over again in 7.0 (just like with AST (gets reworked at least once every expansion), SMN (gets reworked exactly once every expansion), MNK (suprised the rework lasted the entire expansion)and BRD (your songrotation is still ass, just make Mages Ballad and Wanderers stances like AST had at the end of ShB that are always active and Armys as an OGCD that strengthens the song your currently playin with and gives you the proc-effect of both songs while it`s active like Neutral Sect on AST did for the Healing-stances, would be easier for new players as well) (I did not forget DRK and RDM, SE did)

[@markup6394]

1:14 --- I... feel called out XD XD XD 3:55 --- I totally agree there: leveling SCH is so easy... until you hit lvl70, that was the breaking point for me ^^° Before that the fairy did all the work and I slaped on some shields or an instand heal, no big deal... Aaaand then things started to get interesting and I panicked ^^° Still, I finished up to 80 (back in 5.2 or 3) and the fun part: I had no idea how SMN worked XD I had to learn that job from scratch. But dont let people fool you in regards of SMN: old SMN was easy, too! 7:19 --- They do ^.^ Go melee range and right-click a mob ^.^

[@baphomeat]

I am a Healer Main, been healing since the first MMO with healing came out and I had to face desk when you said that you took of your healing spells. No... bad AvyCatte... you know what you did... Overall though I do appreciate videos like this though

[@ajp1282]

I played SMN to 90 it also lvl'd up SCH to 90 as well. I just had to do MSQ lol quests and that was it so I don't remember SCH either 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@tabithahavens2024]

Reaper???