Scholar Is OUTRAGEOUS in Dawntrail! [FFXIV Media Tour]

Scholar has had a ton of amazing changes going into Dawntrail and I got to try them during the FFXIV Dawntrail Media Tour event and I can tell you for a fact that the newest additions to the Scholar's toolkit are AMAZING like I am truly blown away by what the development team have made here!
Let's break down the Scholar changes and get into the details about why Seraphism is the best ability ever added for healers in FFXIV! Great amazing fantastic set of abilities that gives us as Scholar players SO much power. THIS IS AWESOME!
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Timestamps:
0:00 Dawntrail Media Tour Scholar Changes
0:25 Seraphism is the best healer cooldown
1:00 Dissipation and Scholar's Healing Kit
2:28 Double Barrier Healer
2:48 Seraphism Details
3:59 Emergency Tactics MASSIVE HEAL BURST
4:40 Mobility! MOBILITY! YES!
5:28 MASSIVE heal potency boost
7:01 Seraphism BIGGER BARRIERS CRITLO BARRIERS WILL BE HUGE
8:10 Combine the effects of Seraphism
8:40 The on GCD heal problem
9:30 Why Seraphism is my favorite healer skill
10:42 Scholar's Second Damage over time DoT skill
11:50 Baneful Impactment
12:28 Is Scholar's Damage Rotation significantly changed? No
13:22 Final Thoughts on Scholar going into Dawntrail
14:01 Scholar is my main in Dawntrail for sure

[@ryutheslayer123]

Thank you, person I stumbled into. You are the only one so far who posted what Scholar's Seraphism looks like AT THE FRONT instead of THE BACK!

[@Nihonguy]

Im just astonished the hrothgar is capable of wearing clothe on their heads 0.0

[@robsusername1042]

Currently watching all your media tour videos and random but every time I see your logo in lightning I think it’s a new skill LOL

[@ftgyhujdftyhurftyh]

Same xD

[@SubduedRadical]

7:02 - So in other words, during Seraphism, SCH can poop out a new 432 (non-crits) potency partywide barrier every 2.5 sec as an instant cast while WHM gets a single 400 potency party barrier every 2 mins after Temperance AND SCH can use Emergency Tactics to, instead, do raw healing of 672 AOE potency instead, eclipsing Cure 3? Granted, it's a CD, but good LORD is that powerful!

[@Hat-Trick]

I’m also in the camp of loving the visual theme of Seraphism. I know some people really wanted the ability to have a tactician’s visuals, but personally I think the ability does well to blend the two themes of being a tactician with a Seraph summon. The function of the ability satisfies my tactician fantasy, you enter a state where you can unleash your tactics unburdened by limitations. Meanwhile, the visual of the ability satisfies my ‘Commanding Seraph’ fantasy as, in order to enter this state, you must ascend to a Seraphic form that can handle the mental burden (just like how we upgrade our fairy to Seraph). My only criticism is that I wish the execution of the visuals was better. I feel that, although the effects of the spell casts look great, the angel costume is lacking. I wished we could have had a transformation closer to something like FF7’s Sephiroth. Ok, maybe not EXACTLY Safer Sephiroth, but something more biblical to put in mind that we are ascending would have been nice. Maybe some VFX too, perhaps God rays and clouds idk.

[@DevilSeiji]

Have you heard about our Lady and Saviour Seraphism?

[@DevilSeiji]

Damn! almost 700 potency aoe heal and slightly over 1k single target heal withj seraphism and ET.

[@DevilSeiji]

DAMN easier Critspreadlo D: Plus way easier seraph shield. Poor Sage - nevermind. Is that aoe kardia? (no need to answer Imma watch sage later)

[@AlexBearincess]

Recitation working on the transformed versions of Adlo and Conci (new Succor) during Seraphism is *wild* 🤯

[@ColeEvyx]

Yup I've fangirled about that since the media tour! Even just that perk alone (which doesn't dismiss the fairy) is great it's like having dissipation but for "free" (arguable with 3min cd, but no dismissal of the fairy is nice!). Seraphism is genuinely bonkers. The amount of big barriers Scholar will be able to deploy regularily is... wholly hilarious.

[@AlexBearincess]

@@ColeEvyx Considering how many single-healer or even NO-HEALER runs we've been seeing recently for Savage and Ultimate, I wouldn't be surprised if the new healer meta for DT is just "Scholar" 😆

[@PROTOgarrettv2]

I'd love to see you do an in-depth how to guide for Scholar. It's my main, but I feel I'm not using it to the potential I could.

[@robbymystic3819]

I absolutely hate the angel form :( Ever since ARR I've wanted sch to get a fairy form cooldown and they do this :(

[@whovegas]

Lol im certain there will be a mod for it.

[@rynsalasthol1498]

they could literally just increase the potency of Energy Drain and add a stacking effect. The more you use in a row, the stronger they are and maybe they add a status effect and a final burst if you burn all three at once. It would give us more DPS and will prevent us from sitting on AF stacks in high end fights we will have to make a decision whehter to pump more DPS or save for heals

[@nararanaraiii2022]

That is not a solution because the way FFXIV works you will always want to use them on dps, no such thing as saving a dps resource for heals

[@rynsalasthol1498]

@@nararanaraiii2022 for scholar there would be because a lot of big heals use Aetherflow and having to decide when they can be used for DPS and when they need to be used for heals would be a key part of the job. But I was also thinking a little more in depth than that. Like at lvl 52 Energy Drain could turn into Aether Syphon with 20 second cooldown. The skill is instant cast and uses one aetherflow stack. It is a 300 Heal potency to you and nearby allies and a 300 potency unaspected damage to all nearby enemies. At lvl 74 you gain the Secrets of Nym trait which adds plague markers to your Faerie Gauge. Each use of Aether Syphon builds the Green Death markers until you have three stacks and can transform your Faerie into a Tonberry. the Tonberry rushes a target and uses Karmic Grudge, Deals unaspected damage to target and all enemies nearby it with a potency of 1,240 for the first enemy, and 50% less for all remaining enemies. Your Faerie returns after 30 secs.

[@neobahumuth6]

is that an helmet on a hrotgar?

[@GarnetDust24]

New scholar looks great but like I hate that the Selene gauge can’t be used for others things.

[@nozelxo6514]

They went crazy on Seraphism

[@AlphaXXI]

I kind of like that you can't see the eyes, it makes the whole thing look more threatening than I thought.

[@toodleselnoodos6738]

It still doesn’t fix the experience in Roulettes. SCH: (Casts Seraphism) Behold the culmination of ALL my power!!! SGE: (Overwrites with unbuffed E.Prog) Haha, E.Prog goes brrr!

[@locket9160]

well at least if so u can keep spamming emergency + accession again and again now

[@toodleselnoodos6738]

@@locket9160 I remember in Barb EX the AST kept dying and I was thinking the whole time “How am **I** the Pure Healer right now?!?”

[@locket9160]

@@toodleselnoodos6738 yea seraphism is nice cd but becomes godlike when your co healer is dead and you are dumping mana bar to keep everyone alive 😆 its gonna be great for your that particular scenario

[@toodleselnoodos6738]

@@locket9160 Also if they have high mobile intense healing needed. Rubicante EX’s Brands, this is just convenience. Or Gale Sphered 2. Like Seraphism is absolutely good, but it’s probably gonna be a dead button in Roulettes beyond “guess I’ll do another HoT”.

[@erwark]

Unless they have fixed the interaction. Which I am not counting on, but is entirely possible.

[@delunk5906]

Bro set the record for using the word “like”.

[@myname5710]

I think the main thing scholar was missing was a "OH SHIT" button and seraphism fixes that. It kind of makes up for the boring new skill from endwalker as well

[@kataku8609]

SCH MY BABYYYY!!!! Please, Cole, tell me Selene/Eos are actually fixed an are not making microwave noises!!! Also curious about Seraphism, still not 100% on the look, but it looks better from the front (Reminds me of Eden Ryne primal form). How does it feel to play?

[@user-zj7nh8tm8p]

That christmas angel thing is the fugliest thing I've ever seen.

[@DevilSeiji]

OMG Like OMG I need a bigger caps button for OMG

[@nararanaraiii2022]

Maaaaan, being a whm main is pain, i just gotta see everyone having fun, tho it could be worse

[@walwal6449]

i want to get into scholar but i hate the energy drains, wished they removed that in dawntrail

[@DevilSeiji]

Wasn't there supposed to be reduced cd on recitation?

[@erockbaby3000]

If was reduced to 60 secs

[@toodleselnoodos6738]

Down to 1 minute now. Unless Adloquium got a potency buff, it essentially means: Recitation + Concitation (540p shield) = Adloquium + Deployment Tactics (540p shield) So, SCH doesn’t really get any big power, they just get more flexibility. Something that doesn’t matter in the current Encounters. It seems someone at CBU3 hates SCH’s fat shields and is trying to make them more pure regen healer again like in ShB.

[@xLeopanther]

@@toodleselnoodos6738 If you're saying scholar isn't getting any power upgrade, are you ignoring that Seraphism raises the potency of both Adlo and Concitation in their seraphism versions? It's not a huge potency increase, but that then gets multiplied for shield or even more for a crit adlo.

[@toodleselnoodos6738]

@@xLeopanther buff as in trait, not buff as in cooldown buffs

[@thiefpotato2759]

​@@toodleselnoodos6738We don't need fatter shields tho? And versatility is a good thing, which is probably why they are adding more healing. I think Scholar will be great and giving more tools that benefit smart players is the way to go.

[@WillParry00]

I wish I could justify playing sch, because it has some cool stuff, but sage does all the same things so much smoother: free movement without potency loss, defensive tools that are instant instead of requiring 5 seconds to setup, idle generation of resources instead of needing to cast aetherflow, ogd heals that are truly free instead of costing dmg, having all your stuff available instead of having half of your toolkits disappear when your fairy is gone, or when your fairy is big so she can only do half the stuff, or when you are the fairy so you cannot eat the fairy. I love fat shields but I’m not willing to give up all the comforts for only one good thing 😢

[@vilvethope]

Now we know where and what was Angel doing instead of appearing in tekken

[@MrGullisYT]

Still not a huge fan of Seraphism, but it does look way better than i initially thought. Glad I get to remain Hrotghar 😁 I can live with this I find it suprising that Scholar still have 3 min CDs, since everything else seems pushed to 1 or 2 mins

[@lightsnow123]

With this... SCH has the most healing output bar-none. Instant cast aoe heal + shields for *20 seconds*. There is no mechanic that lasts that long, let alone needing that much healing. They better add damage for SCH to be healing, or this is an incredibly excessive healing capability. Wow... I mean, Im going to have fun healing, but there better be damage to heal.

[@silmarilion2667]

am i the only person that still hates dissipation? the whole point of the sch is the fairy helping in combat then theres an awkward ability that... orders it away? sure a bit of healing spell potency increase but you lose access to all your fairy abilities. no regen, fey blessing, fey illumination, fairy tether, seraph / consolation and now the OP seraphism. like can we pls rework or change it?

[@elinfini]

Dissipation also gives you full Aetherflow stack, so (and similar to Emergency Tactics), it's kind of a situational skill.

[@mayarasauce]

Yes, you are the only person who hates the strongest healing/shielding buff in your kit lol. 20% healing buff is insane and I almost always use it for shields. If you use Fey Illumination before dissipating your fairy (the buff stays), and follow by recitation>adlo>deployment tactics, you will get the thickest shields on your party. If you wanna go crazy, or if your party has a bunch of vuln stacks before a party wide, add protraction to the mix and the result is BEAUTIFUL crits. It’s a long combo, but sch needs to know the fight to play well anyway, so it’s incredibly useful for high end content. Fey illumination> protraction> dissipation>recitation>adlo>deployment tactics = second banana health bars for the whole party ;)

[@Vulcanfaux]

So it is an upgrade to succor? And not just renamed? Hmm, wonder when we get access to it then.

[@erwark]

Well unless the tooltips are wrong, Concitation has the same effect and potency as the existing Succor. So either they forgot to change the tooltip (likely) or they nerfed Succor to give us a false upgrade (unlikely - they have given wrong potencies in media tour before)

[@Spookybluelights]

I decided a while ago I would main SCH in DT purely because I view it as my characters "default" job and she being a nerdy archeologist seems to fit the theming of the expansion and just hearing all I feel pretty vindicated in that decision.

[@NeocrimsonX]

As a sch personally im feasting.

[@Spookybluelights]

Instant cast shields, yeeesssss! 😭

[@Rivicous]

Fantastic video

[@healgo527]

Just saying MVP for this new expansion is hands down SCH

[@akitapaw]

still want to be abel to chose if u want to use the fairy or not, like yeah u can make her go away for a time being but i want to just choose do i want the fairy yes or no

[@akurei123]

i mean that is nice and all but aren't we now the least mobile healer basically? at least in terms of damage uptime? whm can move lossless with afflatusses, glare IV during burst (there have been multiple instances of heavy movement during burst this tier) and is getting an en avant, sage has a plethora of ways and AST has lightspeed for extended periods of movement like superchain. we have... ruin II? which is falling even further behind in potency as it looks now. it seems i am the only one who would have loved something like phlegma (balls)?

[@yreon0359]

Agreed. I was hoping for a system like smn has. Like every used AF upgrades ruin 2 to ruin X which is is same potency as broil but instant and last for 60s. That would give scholar the same amount of instants as whm and sage.

[@Alexavian]

Going to stay not playing until they give scholar a better dps rotation

[@altaric8483]

Wow seraphism looks awful

[@Gemini_Godhand]

But I love my Sage...... however going biblical is too good to pass up!

[@karmaspcs]

wait untill they fix it because to broken and OP

[@marchabel8880]

What is sir-raff? For God’s sake Cole put it in Google translate 😂😂 you’re killin me here

[@ChilleUK]

with so much healing, raid bosses are gonna do stupid amounts of damage lol

[@shirox11]

Probably not unfortunately. It will most likely just be that much easier to heal than it already is.

[@sae2705]

My plan for my SCH rotation: Aetherflow -> Biolysis -> Pop Chain Stratagem -> Pop Not-Miasma II -> Broil IV -> Ruin 2 -> Energy Drain -> Broil IV -> Ruin 2 -> Energy Drain -> Broil IV -> Ruin 2 -> Energy Drain -> Eat the Faerie -> Broil IV -> Ruin 2 -> Energy Drain -> Broil IV -> Ruin 2 -> Energy Drain -> Broil IV -> Ruin 2 -> Energy Drain I removed the Aetherflow abilities from my hot bar except Excog and Energy Drain and Excog is my backup plan. It was all in an effort to improve SCH by nerfing myself and using Dissipation & Energy Drain to help my DPS feel less monotonous. If we're effectively getting the ability to supercharge the healing skills I still use, it's made the skills I've removed even more redundant. Though...admittedly, I am still kinda grumbling that SCH's pure healing is getting even better after the whole "we're bringing back the distinction of Pure healing and shield healing", which I felt didn't work because functionally, it didn't matter that AST & WHM were better pure healers because the healing requirements didn't really make SCH or SGE struggle with pure healing to rely on their shields. At least for the vast majority of content. I didn't do Savage this expansion, so I cannot comment there as I've slipped down into a semi-casual player. I was able to make my SCH more of a shield healer by removing the skills that may me a better pure healer.

[@DeaconStJohn-zi8db]

ugh you have to say every change is good or not invited next year?

[@Jinxyoutoheaven]

Angel wings on scholar doesn’t make sense….on white mage maybe but not on strategic book worm scholar. Now at first I was like wow cool shiny and now that clarity kicks in I’m like yea wrong job lol. Maybe more fairies or fairy wings but why copy white mage? It’s like such low hanging fruit to just copy and rehash something from another job that already has that a part of their identity.

[@Uiruriru]

WHM has had "light" as a gimmick, yeah. but SCH has had angel stuff specifically since shadowbringers when summon seraph became a thing. Sure temperance phase gave WHM wings, but not angel wings with feathers.

[@AjaniGoldmaneFFXIV]

I still don't like dissipation and I think they could of come up with something better. Idk I still hate dissipation and want that skill to get reworked. Or Atleast if I eat my fairy that it, it resummons in the spot I ate it in.

[@Exeeter1234]

Im sure im in the minority here but the angelic form is a HUGE turn off for me visually.

[@shaunmil]

You're not alone. It's very off putting to me as well. I thought my little faries were just that. Not tiny angels. Don't see angels as faye myself.

[@Exeeter1234]

@@shaunmil Yeah, I enjoyed the early thematic tone of Sch, magic but more.... academically powered i guess lol. with the fairy being the driving force. The seraphim stuff and now this is kind meh to me.

[@divinepteris]

@@Exeeter1234 If you go on the forums, there's actually like 7 threads asking for it either to be removed or made a toggle, so take comfort that you're actually in the majority haha.

[@chilosopher4856]

The first thing I thought when I saw the Angel form was "gross, I'm modding over those wings"

[@Hasediel]

Based on what I've been reading, you are not in the minority. From the theme to the concept of having an empowered form, it just doesn't fit *SCHOLAR.* Dragoon? Absolutely. White Mage? Debatable. Scholar, the job known for having a military theme and whose magic is efficient, rather than over the top like White and Black Mage? Absolutely not.

[@SubduedRadical]

As a person that loves healing and hates DPSing...I get some people miss old SB SCH's kit, but I'm honestly happy we AREN'T getting the SGE treatment. Chain has a follow-up oGCD weave and otherwise I'm left alone while also given a BONKERS new healing tool. I'm super happy about SCH and WHM's changes, and will be maining them both in DT. I'll leave SGE to the people that want to do more DPSing. Everyone wins. Well, most everyone...

[@xcetrax]

S-air-uh-fism* ^^'

[@eolendes6432]

I will mod the dumbass tablecloth look away. If I ever use this Seraphism it will be for the AoE regen and keep broiling. I will not cosplay as a WHM, the whole reason I play as a SCH is because of its military academic.

[@zeehero7280]

I dont like the seraphism visuals and wish I could turn it off. if not, I simply wont play SCH anymore.

[@bookbagfox]

I still don’t like how seraphism makes characters look, but it does sound powerful and fun. Baneful Impaction seems okay but what I’d really like to see is the PVP version of Deployment Tactics (acts like Bane on enemies) and ideally another DoT.

[@ryes5]

Cole I love watching your videos but can you please look up how to say words before you make your videos because sometimes it’s so hard to watch when you say things wrong like “seraphism” and “seraph.” Seraph is not like giraffe. Seraph is like SARE-uff and seraphism is like SARE-uf-ism.