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yekulan-dothkah · 8 years ago

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“What The Job?!” - Scholar

1 - Intro:

Alright, so I’ve had a bunch of my friends say it would be super helpful if I made a “how to Scholar” thing because I do it, and I do it quite well apparently. Instead of just making it for them, I thought I would share this information with all of you. So here it is, my first, “What The Job?!”

This guide is as of 4.05 and I’ll try and reblog with updates as significant changes are made to the class, or small ones. First off I want to say; this is how I play scholar, and my recommendations, not the be all end all Bible or anything of the sort. Now settle down and get ready to let me tell you a thing I like to think I know.

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2 - Index:

1 - Intro 2 - Index 3 - Terms 4 - Why/Should I Scholar? 5 - What kind of healing? 6 - Gear & Attributes 7 - Abilities A - Special Note B - Dps Skills C - Non Healing Important Skills D - Healing and Healing Related Skills E - Aetherflow F - Aetherflow stack skills: G - Faerie Gauge 8 - Role Abilities 9 - Traits 10 - Pets/Faeries A - How the Hell Does This Thing Work B - Pet related skills and traits C - Eos: The Perfect Child D - Selene: The Multi-Tool 11 - Rotations A - Gaging B - Dps C - Healing 12 - Stratagem 13 - Macro’s 14 - Hotbars 15 - Gaming Gear/Work Around 16 - The End

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3 - Terms:

Assuming you know the abbreviations for the classes, please see the below for further.

DOT = Damage over time AOE = Area of effect Crit = Critical Dps = Damage per second lvl = Level ilvl = Item Level HP = Hit points EPH = Effective Potency Heal - Healing of spell + shields combined MP = Mana Points Mnd = Mind Int = Intelligence Pie = Piety MSQ = Main story quest

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4 - Why/Should I Scholar?:

First off, Scholar is a job with a bit of an entry level issue. While Ast gets to start from 30 and gets a wide variety of heals locked behind 300+ MSQ quests and any one class to 50, and WHM is just CNJ 30 with a bunch of heals at the start; SCH is 30 levels of ACN, only to be given 2 heals total at lvl 30. It’s a rough start, but if you can make it to lvl 50 you really start to shine. SCH is a very strategic healer, you’ll find instead of the obvious answer you may have to read up a bit more on what you can do vs should do, or plan ahead of a fight a little to get the most out of the job at first. The more you play the class the less planning you’ll find you end up doing and the more reflexive you’ll become. This may seem tedious and a huge discouragement, but the job can be extremely rewarding to both you and the group when used effectively. I like to say I can pull rabbits out of my book, because sometimes that’s exactly what it feels like despite you controlling your own luck; it’s all in the execution.

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5 - What kind of healing?:

Galvanize, also known as Shields, all the shields, people joke SCH’s can mitigate enough damage your gear durability goes up (not actually). There’s also some micromanagement but honestly you have some of the most flexible, reactive, as well as proactive healing and dps available to a healer; SCH’s live up to the lore. Where WHM is big heals and big regen, and AST can buff, regen, and even shield like you, no one has a kit of abilities quite like you do. You can respond and react to almost every situation.

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6 - Gear & Attributes:

Everybody values these differently as a healer, for me it’s the following: 1. Mind: for healing potency you will spend all attribute points on this. 2. Critical Hit Rate: What makes SCH’s is the ability to Crit shield, I’ll explain this later but know it’s important, this also increases your damage when you do attack and Crit so it pulls double duty. 3. Piety: for MP to cast more spells for healing or Dps, since Aetherflow is a % of your MP, having more means a better return on the skill. 4. Determination: increases your damaging spells and your heals, always good. 5. Spell Speed: is nice but not necessary as your casts are decent times and a huge amount of your best heals and abilities are instant cast off global cooldown, and it doesn’t decrease your faerie’s recast timer which can throw her off sync in some combat.

Note: If you prefer surecast over swiftcast which is described later, bump spell speed up above determination as it will help greatly with resurrect and summon’s.

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7 - Abilities:

A - Special Note:

Anything that says “Shields” or “Galvanize” as part of the healing or spell effect DOES NOT stack with Nocturnal Sect AST’s shields. If you are in a party with an AST, please politely ask them to switch into Diurnal sect if they do not do so automatically as you do not have the choice of not using shielding heals like they do. If they ask why, explain that AST’s shields overwrite your shields, and vice versa, meaning you’re both wasting MP on casts that could be better spent. At this time AST actually shields MORE than a SCH, but they do not have the ability to spread shields like you, or the added flexibility that comes with your faerie. If they refuse… Well, pucker up and get ready for a rough run.

B - Dps Skills:

These first because you’re gonna have to get through 30 lvls of Arcanist somehow.

Ruin: lvl 1: 100 Potency Instant. Global cooldown. Ruin is you attack when you have nothing better to do and all your dots are already applied and everything else is on cooldown and don’t have broil yet. Okay, but not winning any awards. Shares global cast cast time. Ruin II: lvl 38: 100 Potency, Instant. Global cooldown. An instant cast ability on the global cooldown. Is it high on your priority list? Not really, and for 2x the mana cost of Ruin I it’s pretty hard to justify casting, really only use this if you are running away from an AOE, or need to cast quickly on a target that needs to be killed to avoid a wipe mechanic before lvl 54. Bio: lvl 2: 40 Potency x 6 = 240 Potency over 18 seconds, Instant. Global cooldown. Part of your bread and butter Dps combo, it’s an instant cast and allows you to use other instant cast off global cooldown abilities while you wait to be able to cast again. Recommend to cast this while on the move or after Miasma; as you will quickly shoot off both abilities and give you a moment to cast Bane, both I’ll describe later. Bio II: lvl 26: 35 Potency x 10 ticks = 350 Potency over 30 seconds, Instant. Global cooldown. Another part of your bread and butter Dps combo, it’s an instant cast and allows you to use other instant cast off global cooldown abilities while you wait to be able to cast again. Your Bio upgrades into Bio II, same recommendations apply to casting. Miasma: 35 Potency x 8 = 280 Potency over 24 seconds, 2.5 sec cast. Global cooldown. Also a spell with cast time and the part of your bread and butter Dps combo, small cast time, recommend casting Miasma, then Bio II on each enemy, or Bane after casting the combo on the first enemy if you want to spread DoT’s more quickly. Miasma II: 100 Potency + (25 Potency x 4) = 200 Potency over 12 seconds, AOE, 2.5 sec cast. Global cooldown. So this is, different? You will want to use it with 3 or more enemies, but beware that MP cost, it’s steep and builds up fast, so don’t spam it. Again, this only pays off in any stage of the game if there are 3 or more mobs, preferably 4. Huge thing to note, this is an AOE around YOU; you will need to be in the thick of things to hit enemies with this, do not try to cast it from 15 yalms away from the mob. Shadow Flare: lvl 50: 50 Potency x 5 = 250 Potency over 15 seconds + Slow 5% (slows cast and ability recast time for enemies in the area by 5%), 60 sec cooldown. Instant. No MP cost. Shadow flare is a great opener, and a good skill to use if you’re not sure about being able to Dps and heal. The ability is cast instantly, this is great practice for nervous healers trying to get the hang of attacking and healing as you start to get a feel for what you can and can’t get away with. The fact this is a place-able AOE makes it better because at 4 enemies you reach 1000 Potency over 15 seconds which just under the average engagement time for a trash pull, this damage isn’t stellar on single targets, but still better than casting Ruin’s or Broil’s; regardless the extra damage will be welcome by your team, and the 5% slow will actually reduce incoming damage on the tank. PLEASE NOTE: Only one AOE placeable can be active at a time, this means Sacred Soil OR Shadow Flare Broil: lvl 54: 190 Potency, 2.5 sec cast. Global cooldown. This is a straight up cast, at lvl 54, you can finally stop casting ruin and Ruin II! However beware; the MP cost will creep up on you as it is 4x Ruin in cost and quickly leave you without resources to heal if you get too caught up doing Dps. This does replace Ruin when you get it so you do still have the option of casting a cheaper instant spell Ruin II in comparison to Broil. Broil II: lvl 64: 230 Potency, 2.5 sec cast. Global cooldown. Broil becomes Broil II, and with it a sizeable potency increase of 40, Broil II is doing decent damage; but still less that Bio II, Miasma I & II, and Shadowflare. The damage is more than Ruin II which we have available still, and Broil II upgrade does not increase the MP cost like it has done in previous iterations, thankfully.

C - Non Healing Important Skills:

These abilities are just as important as healing, remember you have them.

Resurrect: lvl 18: High MP cost revive, 8 sec cast. Global cooldown. No cooldown really, massive cast time, huge MP cost, SMN and SCH share this resurrect, but you gain it at lvl 18 so be careful in the low level roulette Sastasha with squishy tanks. Chain Strategem: lvl 66: Increased rate at which target takes critical hits by 15% for 15 sec, Cooldown 90 sec. Off global cooldown. A huge boon to team damage, especially with crit focused dps, but generally a boon everyone can share and enjoy, super powerful during a dps check or phase skipping, also makes some bosses that might have been hard to clear just a little easier by offering a faster kill. Always try to pop this when it’s off cooldown during a boss and on the tougher mobs of trash pulls.

D - Healing and Healing Related Skills:

Time for your main healing abilities

Physick: lvl 4: 400 Potency, 2.0 sec cast. Global cooldown. Not something to shy away from using, it’s a potent heal for a low cost, and will help you manage your MP through long fights. Adloquium: lvl 30: 300 Potency + 300 Shields (also known as Galvanize) that can be doubled with a crit, Shield lasts 30 sec, 2 sec cast. Global cooldown. This skill is very special and very powerful, the healing however costs 3 times more than Physick for only 200 more effective healing. Why? First, because while the shield takes damage you can heal the health under it with your myriad of abilities. Second, because when you Crit, the shield becomes 2 times the potency based off the Crit bonus. Let me break this healing equivalent of an orgasm down. Example: you cast Adloquium for a 10k crit heal, this generates a 20K shield on that character to absorb damage as well. This means you can either sit and regenerate mana, or perform DPS depending on the scenario before healing again. Succor: lvl35: AOE HP for self and nearby party members, 150 potency, 150 Shields that can be doubled with a crit, Shield lasts 30 sec, 2.5 sec cast. Global cooldown. This is your AOE heal, it has a higher cost than Adloquium by 25% so don’t use it too heavily if you can help it. The heal + shield is good for topping up party members after a big heal, or a regen has be put on them by another healer, or if it’s a stack up mechanic. The extra 150 shields goes on top of a health bar and takes damage first, never forget this, I can’t stress it enough; a WHM or AST in dirunal can regen all they want but they can’t “overheal” like you unless they’re an AST in nocturnal sect. The same effects apply for critical heals here as with Adloquium; this is why the crit stat is so important. Deployment Tactics: lvl 56: Extends Eye for an Eye and Galvanize (shield) effect on target to nearby allies. Cooldown 120 sec. Instant. Off global cooldown. This is a somewhat situational but extremely useful skill and can be cast more often than you think. Cast Eye for an Eye, then Adloquium, and spread the effects from the tank to that dps that keeps getting hit by everything, your team will thank you. What this means is if you Crit heal or not, the shield and Eye for an Eye will be replicated on all nearby party members (range is about the size of Sacred Soil from target). This means any melee dps will likely share this double buff if they’re close to the tank you cast it on; helping spread the damage reduction debuff of Eye for an Eye if hit while protecting them from AOE damage thanks to the shield. Please note if the tank takes damage, this does not subtract from the original total that gets shared, as well if your Crit heal for 10k, the 20k shield will be spread to everyone within range. The only time you shouldn’t use emergency tactics is when the tank buster destroys the shield, it will not be shared if it’s worn off in such a case. So, go grab your hot pocket while you wait for people to start taking damage again (sarcasm; please don’t do this, Dps instead if you’re comfortable or just sit there gawking over how amazing that felt to pull off). Despite Eye for an Eye being a role ability and no longer a SCH/SMN specific ability, it has remained attached to this skill and hence why it’s nearly a must for SCH to take. Emergency Tactics: lvl 58: Turn the next Galvanize (shield) into healing instead of a barrier, Cooldown 20 sec. Instant. Off global cooldown. Say you crit a Adloquium again and get a 10k heal; rather than shielding 20k like a crit should, it instead is uses the 20k shield in addition to normal healing of 10k to reach 30k total healing; if Emergency Tactics was used beforehand. Short of Essential dignity at almost no HP as AST, or Benediction as WHM. Using Emergency Tactics with Adloquium or Succor can make them into some of the most potent healing spells in the game. On a 20 second cooldown, it’s like a stronger lustrate or indomitability with cast time when it crit’s. Dissipation: lvl 60: Order your faerie away, gain 3 stacks of Aetherflow and NO MP & Gain +20% healing Potency - Duration 30 sec - Cooldown 180 sec. Can not re-summon faerie for duration. Instant. Off global cooldown. This ability before stormblood may never see use on your bar, but given the recent increase in content difficulty, or any scenario where you have to carry your co-healer, this ability will save you. What you want to reserve it for is when you’ve pop lucid dreaming and you’re out of mp and aetherflow, and you need heals right now. This is an amazing last resort button. What happens is while you have say 2k MP and can barely cast a succor, you can now cast three lustrate’s for example and save the tank from a buster, or do indomitability and heal everyone from the room wide or stack up mechanic. Meanwhile, you have enough mp to cast physick it’s buffed 20%. This can help you limp by till the next aetherflow comes off cooldown, and post 68, it even causes aetherflow to come off cooldown sooner due to your trait that reduces the time for aetherflow to cooldown with each stack used. With mp refresh on, or aetherflow coming off cooldown, this can save your bacon when the going gets tough and your MP has left the building. Personal recommendation is as soon as you get the MP back, swiftcast resummon your faerie, or wait until a long wind up mechanic where nothing is happening and get your faerie back then. Please note: Dissipation’s potency increase does not affect the healing potency of Lustrate, or Indomitability, or Excogitation; so don’t use this hoping to make those abilities more powerful. Also see Fey Union for Dissipation interaction with the skill.

E - Aetherflow:

This is your life saver, your god/goddess, your savior in the dark, the glimmering salvation of your allies, or scythe to help reap enemies. This is your core mechanic.

Effect: MP regen of 10% + 3 stacks of Aetherflow - Cooldown of 60 seconds. Lvl 68 Trait: 100% chance that when casting a spell using a stack that it reduces cooldown of Aetherflow by 5 seconds. The stacks do not have a duration and are infinite.

These three stacks are gold and the 10% MP regen instantly can prevent a raid wipe as it’s enough to revive one character if your Piety is high enough, even right after being revived yourself if the plan went south. WHM and AST can’t do this, you are a special snowflake with this one spell and can turn a wipe into a recovery, and then a win. While you will want to constantly use your stacks of Aetherflow to get the best use out of them and then pop this to keep your MP up, know this is also the biggest “oh shit” button in the game and you may want to save it for a tough moment if you know one is coming up. As of Stormblood (4.0) at lvl 70, using aetherflow stacks increases your Faerie Gauge by a portion each time you use one for a spell/ability which will be covered more in depth later; so spending is better than holding at that point especially.

F - Aetherflow stack skills:

The below skills use stacks of Aetherflow gained from the skill by the same name described above, utilize these carefully because you only get 3 stacks every 60 seconds roughly. All Aetherflow skills use 1 stack of Aetherflow, and there cannot be more than 3 held at one time. All of these casts are instant as well.

Energy Drain: lvl 6: Absorb damage dealt as MP and HP at a Potency of 150. Instant. Off global cooldown. This is the “oh shit” button to your “oh shit” button when MP is running low. This may be because you’re dpsing really hard, or healing is going well and you don’t quite need Aetherflow stacks to heal and maybe got caught up, or maybe didn’t spend your MP as wisely as you could. You can easily squeeze out an additional 20% MP over 9 seconds and heal yourself at the same time for about 20% of your HP too. Using this with Dissipation when you’re strapped for MP and need to revive someone is one way to recover from a bad scenario and low resources. Bane: lvl 30: Spread the target enemy’s Bio, and Miasma spells with their remaining duration to surrounding enemies + 15% chance to spread the spell with full duration instead of the remainder. Potency of DoT’s is reduced by 20% for second enemy, 40% for third enemy, and 60% for the fourth, and 80% for the fifth and beyond. Cooldown 10 sec, Instant. Off global cooldown. To explain, say your DoTs (Bio II & Miasma) are at 21 seconds remaining on both DoT spells, you have only casted them on one target and a bunch of adds spawn, let us say there is 5 adds on top of the first. You spread the remaining 21 seconds to all 5 mobs if they are within range of the initial target with a 15% chance for each spread spell it resets to full duration. This means you can spread 490 potency worth of spells to the first enemy it hits, followed by the following for each successive enemy hit depreciating (392/294/196/98 onward) without actually having to cast on each one. The total potency for the six mobs for your simply two spells cast becomes 1960. Yes this got a huge nerf in Stormblood if you remember the heaven’s ward days, but it is still saving you a bunch of time and energy you would have spent casting (roughly 18 seconds of spell casting), and ideally you cast Bane well before the 21 second mark, instead at the 24 second mark right after you Bio II & Miasma combo which increases the potency even more so. This is amazingly useful if you find your heals are in good working order and you don’t find yourself using your stacks on healing spells; great for working up to the boss and making trash pulls go faster. Sacred Soil: lvl 45: 10% damage reduction to all friendly targets in the place-able AOE circle - Duration 15 sec, Cooldown 30 sec + 20% chance your next Succor within 15 sec is free. Instant. Off global cooldown. This ability is amazing for mechanic and boss attacks in raids or dungeons as it reduces all damage by 10%, while AST can do this and provide a regen, AST has to be in the center of the mess with this and is unable to perform other actions during the duration of the cast, where SCH can deploy this without being in the fire themselves and still healing allies. WHM can throw down a regen bubble, but it does not prevent 10% of damage which can prevent a wipe where a regen doesn’t. Again, you are flexible where others have to dedicate or lack your utility. While we already explained what Succor is, reflect on the fact that after casting a 10% damage reduction circle you have a chance to free cast an AOE heal + shield spell which proc’s surprisingly often, and can be combo with emergency tactics for a big heal as discussed earlier instead of a shield heal. PLEASE NOTE: Only one AOE placeable can be active at a time, this means Sacred Soil OR Shadow Flare. Lustrate: lvl 50: Heal for 600 Potency, Cooldown 1 sec. Instant. Off global cooldown. You read that right, 600 potency, and without any MP cost, instantly; but you can only cast 3 every 60 seconds assuming you don’t use your Aetherflow stacks on anything else and don’t use Dissipation. The boon this has is the instant cast for emergencies, and the fact you can spread all 3 casts across multiple members of the party at different times of need. Great for topping off a tank after a buster and then healing two dps. The only thing with comparable single target is Tetragrammaton at 700 Potency once every 60 seconds from WHM; and Benefic II from AST at 650 Potency, which while can be cast with global cooldown regularily, can quickly use up all your MP where Lustrate does no such thing. Indomitability: lvl 52: 500 Potency, Cooldown 30 sec. Instant. Off global cooldown. Another instant cast, this time an AOE heal, while WHM wins this round having Cure III on global cooldown and 550 Potency, and AST with Helios for 300 Potency on global cooldown; the fact you can cast this between your own heals without MP costs is where it shines, or weaving it in between other off or on global cooldown casts. For example: Lustrate, Indomitability, Lustrate: One target gets 1700 effective potency heal, and the whole party gets 500 in under 2 seconds. Second example: Cast succor first for 150 heal + 150 shield, on top of the other casts mentioned previously for 2000 effective potency heal in under 5 seconds to single target and 800 effective potency heal to party. It is extremely hard for the other healers to pull off this much burst healing on command so frequently. With the trait on aetherflow at lvl 68, this could happen as often as once every 45 seconds, 30 seconds with Dissipation. Excogitation: lvl 62: Target party member gains Excogitation status effect, when target falls below 50% HP, auto healed for 800 Potency, Cooldown 45 sec. Can not be cast on self. Effect duration 45 seconds. Instant. Off global cooldown. Another Aetherflow ability making your stacks even more precious. This ability can be pre-casted before a tank buster for example, or protect your co-healer, even casted after losing 50% hp for an instant trigger. While more potent than Lustrate by 200 potency, this is more useful in preparing for a bad day than it is for using in the heat of the moment. Note this ability does have a duration of 45 seconds and a cooldown of 45 seconds. This isn’t a bad choice to use on a target when they’re being resurrected, because as soon as their HP show’s they’ll have the effect trigger and heal them up to past half HP; without wasting an Aetherflow stack on Lustrate for a 0 HP heal because they’re “not alive yet” according to the server. If only the tank is taking damage and there is not tank buster coming, avoid using this ability, as your faerie can heal them for a surprising amount and stop the effect from triggering which wastes the stack. With patch 4.05 this now lines up well with Aetherflows recast time so spending at least one stack on Excogitation isn’t a bad idea and helps you get the most of your stacks. G - Faerie Gauge: This gauge is how you cast your lvl 70 ability Aetherpact, to begin the effect of Fey Union, which is slowly depleted by Fey Union. The bar increases by 10 for every aetherflow stack you spend while your Faerie is summoned, and decreases by 10 for every 3 seconds Fey Union is active. Goes up to 100.

One thing worthy of note is if you Dissipate your Faerie, you maintain your Faerie Gauge numbers from before using Dissipate. Say you have 70 Gauge, and you Dissipate, you can resummon your faerie after the Dissipate wears off and still have 70 Gauge. Please note however that you will not gain Faerie Gauge for any Aetherflow actions used while the Faerie was not summoned, and death resets the Faerie gauge.

Rouse does not affect Fey Union potency, only Fey Illumination does. Aetherpact/Fey Union: lvl 70: Order’s faerie to execute Fey Union with a target party member other than self, costs 10 Faerie Gauge per 3 seconds. Instant. Off global cooldown. Healing Potency 480. Turns into Dissolve Union upon casting and activating. 15 Yalm Range. First off this allows you to dedicate a few seconds of healing to a character that needs it while you pay attention to the main target, or it can help work through a tank buster full of boss combos. This is an instant cast but the faerie has to move to stand within 15 yalms of the person it is cast on to maintain the tether, even though it can be cast at a distance of 30 yalms. Keep the range limitation in mind, you either have to be in the thick of the action, or wait for your faerie to fly over and begin casting; both scenario’s demand your faerie to finish casting their current spell/ability before executing which is bad in a clutch heal situations and better suited for preparation. With a potency of 480, it is like a buffed Physick going off constantly on the target, and is very potent as a result.

Dissolve Union: Turns into Aetherpact when cast or when Faerie Gauge reaches 0. Ends the Fey Union ability early without using unspent Faerie Gauge. With a 5 second recast time shared with Aetherpact, you’ll likely spend 20 on the gauge before the effect can be canceled, however this does allow the gauge to be saved for later use instead of all at once. Things that increase Faerie Gauge: & How Much - Energy Drain: 10 - Bane: 10 - Sacred Soil: 10 - Lustrate: 10 - Indomitability: 10 - Excogitation: 10

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8 - Role Abilities:

Alright you made it this far, but what the hell should your spare abilities be? You only get 5 so choose wisely! In order of appearance, see below.

Cleric Stance: lvl 8: 5% increase to damage for 15 sec, Cooldown 90 sec. Instant. Off global cooldown. Thanks to the Dev’s, the cleric stance discord is mostly dead, but not whether or not you should be healing or attacking unfortunately. As a SCH you probably will get the most pressure to attack because your Faerie can heal most trash pulls on old game content, and some trash pulls on new content. Please, if you are learning, state you are learning, and no one in their right mind will bug you about this. If anything just do your best and give it a shot, if someone dies/you know you can’t dps during this pull & heal, then don’t dps and state that you can’t dps and heal the current scenario; at least then they can’t say you you’re standing around for “no reason” or “being lazy”. You won’t get better without trying either, so don’t be too afraid about throwing a spell out now or then, even if it’s just a Ruin or Broil, or maybe a Shadowflare. Learning how to dps and heal is fun, and is very rewarding when it comes to end game content. While 5% isn’t much, consider taking this over Break for example if you have everything else you want in the other 4 slots. Break: lvl 12: apply a 40% heavy for 20 seconds, 2.5 sec recast. Global cooldown. I state the recast time because this is one of few Healer Role Abilities that don’t have a huge cooldown. The heavy is nice, good for running away from something trying to kill you, think of break as “the push back that doesn’t actually push anything away.” Of course there will be mobs resistant to this ability which will make it useless, but it can be useful during leveling when something you don’t like attacks you. Protect: lvl 16: Reduces party member physical and magic defense by a %, duration of 30 min, 2.5 sec recast. Global cooldown. This buff means a % of damage taken is reduced, but granted the damage numbers are reduced by a larger amount on people with more physical or magical defense than those with lower numbers, this means using protect on a level sync’d content while your ilvl is unsync’d will cause damage to be reduced by a large amount. I’d say this is mandatory unless your co-healer decides to take it and you both worked out who has what. The percent isn’t precisely 10% anymore or even consistent I found after some math. For example: when cast with 1013 physical defense, physical defense went up to 1164, which is roughly 16% increase. Magick defense however went from 1769 to 2034, which is roughly a 15% increase. Highly recommend taking this if solo healing or designated protect caster in raid/trials. Esuna: lvl 20: Removes a single detrimental effect from target, 1 sec cast, 2.5 sec recast. Global cooldown. This ability now has the cast time of the old SCH ability Leeches with the same name of the WHM ability pre-Stormblood. This is very handy, so make sure someone is on Esuna duty if you are co-healing with someone, both of you have it, or just always have it in your set. You will have to Esuna SOMETHING eventually, and getting caught off guard when the status Doom is cast that needs to be Esuna’d and is going to kill the tank in 15 seconds is not fun. Alternatively, you can summon Selene and keep her on a tight leash (use obey and steady) as she has a group wide Esuna available every 60 seconds. Lucid Dreaming: lvl 24: Refreshes MP with a Potency of 80 every 3 sec for 21 sec (560 total potency), and reduces enmity by ½, Cooldown 120 sec. Off global cooldown. Now you’re probably thinking “I have Aetherflow, I don’t need this-” wrong, this is the second most useful thing you own, next to Aetherflow. Using this ability allows you to cast the high mp cost Broil’s, Adloquium’s and Succors more, and is a good emergency button to pair with Dissipation. If you’re using Dissipation, things are desperate and you need Aetherflow + you probably need a little MP too to make the most of the increased healing you receive from Dissipation, the enmity reduction is a boon because some content you might pull aggro/enmity/hate when you put out the next massive amounts of healing and damage, making it incredibly useful. At the same time, I’d say this is optional, because a SCH can run solely off the MP made from Aetherflow and Energy drain, it’s just a lot more resource monitoring than most are comfortable with. Swiftcast: lvl 32: Instantly cast 1 ability, Cooldown 60 sec. Off global cooldown. Now SCH has a lot of Instant cast abilities if you haven’t noticed; in fact, only their Miasma, Broil, Resurrect, Summoning either Faerie, and 3 heals (Physick/Adloquium/Succor) have any cast time. Really, priority for swiftcast goes as such; Resurrect, summoning faeries, healing spells, and dps abilities dead last. Is it a mandatory ability like Esuna and Protect? Yes and no, you CAN survive without swiftcast, life just sucks when things get really clutch during content. You can skip swiftcast if you know your co-healer, or you know the fight really well and when you can get away with long cast times, or you took spell speed over determination. Eye for an Eye: lvl 36: Cooldown 120 Seconds. Instant. Off global cooldown. Erect a magic barrier around a single party member for 30 seconds, provides a 20% chance that triggers a 10 second debuff, the debuff reduces target damage dealing abilities by 10%. This is a great spell to use in large mob groups as each mob that attacks as the chance to gain the debuff. Additionally the debuff can be reapplied on the enemy if it procs again so the 10 second can work out to be 30-40 seconds of debuff on the enemy if they’re super unlucky. Works on some but not all bosses. I would say this is mandatory for every scholar, more so than protect or esuna for the sole fact your deployment tactics is only half as useful without it, and this is a huge potential damage mitigation ability that should not be overlooked; especially if there is a lot of mobs or boss AOE’s constantly. Largesse: lvl 40: Increases healing magic potency by 20% for 20 sec, Cooldown 90 sec. Instant. Off global cooldown. This is both a necessary and optional skill. If you’ll be using Selene for the dungeon, consider taking this ability, if you’ll be using Eos, consider skipping on this ability. This ability DOES stack with Eos’s increase Fey Illumination 10% heal buff, so it’s not bad to take it with Eos either. Eos can end up with a 50% healing potency increase thanks to rouse, while you can end up with total 30% increase, or 50% if you use Dissipation right after her Fey Illumination ability. I will reiterate however that these potency increases DO NOT affect the healing potency of abilities that use Aetherflow stacks, so only Physick, Adloquium, and Succor benefit; hence the situational nature of its selection. Surecast: lvl 44: Makes next spell that requires cast time ability uninterruptible: the caster becomes immune to attack interrupts, sleep, stun, knockback, and draw in effects for the duration. Duration 10 sec, Cooldown 30 sec. Instant. Off global cooldown. Due to the increased utility of this spell come Stormblood, I’d arguably take it over Swiftcast now if speed doesn’t matter to you. There is now the utility of setting your faerie to heal someone while you do other things like resurrect as well. It can be cast twice as often as Swiftcast, and the added utility of being immune to certain effects for the duration of 10 seconds could be very potent depending on the situation. Useful situations are; literally any knockback, stun, sleep, or draw in ability. Think Palace of the Dead, Bismark EX, Titan EX,Leviathan EX, Sophia HM and EX, casting a big heal while multiple AOE’s go off, the list does go on quite extensively despite how situational it is. Again, a toss up between swiftcast and surecast, so choose what best suits your playstyle, but I would say at least pick one or the other. Rescue: lvl 48: Instantly draw target party member to your side. Range of 30 yalms, Cooldown 150 sec. Instant. Off global cooldown. This ability has some very unique utility to each healer, especially SCH. With your lvl 70 ability being a 15 yalm healing leash, dragging said injured person into range of the leash could be very valuable while you remain focused healing the tank. I know a lot of people with bad pings that would be super happy to have me use this on them to save their butt from an AOE. I see the most use of this being another healer who’s hurt/ player just revived and is in an AOE, possibly a dps like DRG or MNK who can dash right back into the action easily after getting healed or saved from the AOE, and tanks after a swap on something like Odin’s fate where they need healing because they just got the snot kicked out of them. This would be super useful to a tank like a DRK who just used Living Dead and needs immediate intensive healing attention. Very situation, but not to be overlooked, consider it over Cleric Stance and Break, especially if you notice/know someone is struggling with AOE’s. Please note: however, the player being targeted by rescue can dodge, and you can miss. My personal preference: 1>2>3>4>5 Protect>Lucid Dreaming>Eye for an Eye>Largesse>Swiftcast/Surecast OR Protect>Esuna>Lucid Dreaming>Eye for an Eye>Swiftcast/Surecast The reason for the first choice would be if you have Selene as your faerie for reasons explained in the faerie section. Same goes for the second choice, only Eos would be equipped. The other option is to use the first selected 5 if you know there are no debuffs or very few in the current content, or remove Protect if you are co-healing raid content and the other healer is on protect duty. Having two healers with Esuna can be very powerful in heavily debuff focused content like Dun Scaith. Swapping out Eye for an Eye with Esuna or Largesse respectively, on a trial or raid where the bosses are immune to the effects, is a good choice as well.

============== 9: Traits: These are the modifications that take place while you’re leveling, I’ll note important places, but please acknowledge that when I was explaining everything above, I assumed you were lvl 70, and these traits do not stack on top of what I said, I’ll do my best to be clear and simple about what changes each time so you know while you’re leveling why X isn’t healing like it’s supposed to, or Y isn’t as high of damage. Aetherdam: lvl 6/20/40: Gain +1 aetherflow stack So at lvl 6, you get a total of 1 stack of aetherflow, at lvl 20 you have 2, and when you hit lvl 40 you have 3. This is the resource explained above which is used for your unique healing abilities. Enhanced Intelligence & Mind: lvl 20/40/60: Increases Mind and Intelligence stat by a total of 8/16/24 Maim and Mend: lvl 20/40: Basic action damage and HP restoration effect of caster and faerie increased by a total of 10%/30% Corruption Mastery: lvl 26: Bio I upgrades to Bio II, simple yeah? Broil Mastery: lvl 54/64: Ruin becomes Broil, pretty simple. Later on Broil becomes Broil II Quickened Aetherflow: lvl 68: 100% chance that Aetherflow’s cooldown time is reduced by 5 seconds upon executing an Aetherflow Resource ability. Only trait that really needs explaining, this makes it a huge deal to try and spend your stacks instead of holding onto them, and with some of the added utility added in Stormblood you have more flexibility now. Don’t be afraid to use one or two stacks and save 1 for the last few seconds of Aetherflow’s cooldown to see if you get a shorter cooldown or not. At a 5 sec reduction to a 60 second cooldown skill, you can cut Aetherflow’s cooldown by as much as half! Using Dissipation and spending those Aetherflow stacks in conjunction with normal Aetherflow stacks can make the cooldown extremely short and reward you with 9 stacks in 30 seconds and the 20% MP that comes with two triggered Aetherflow’s. ==============

10 - Pets/Fairies:

This deserves its own section just due to the sheer amount of stuff going on.

A - How the Hell Does This Thing Work: Know your faerie scales off your Mind stat for heals AT THE TIME OF SUMMONING. A popular thing SMN’s do is pop a high level Int potion before summoning their Egi to fight, you can do the same with a Mind potion right before summoning your faerie in addition to food buffs with Mind. When the buff runs out, if the faerie/Egi is still alive, the buff persists until the faerie/Egi is summoned again, or dies and needs to be re-summoned. Your faerie also gains any AOE team buffs performed by the faerie only but not others. Yes the faerie gains the buff by their name, but NO the faerie does not actually gain the effect; I’ve done testing and proven abilities like Bole or Sacred Soil on a faerie will have it still take same damage as without. Putting your faerie on Obey and Steady is highly recommended to ensure abilities are activated at the most opportune times; however this takes a lot of practice to achieve, leaving them on Sic isn’t terrible it’s just not optimal. Please note: Faeries will cast whatever ability you tell them to after their current task is finished, if you line up two spells make sure one has cast time first or the faerie will cast Skill 1>Embrace>Skill2 instead of Skill 1>Skill 2 if someone needs healing. This issue is most prominent with Eos when doing Healing buff > AoE heal, so be quick on the draw or sadly you’ll have to wait.

B - Pet related skills and traits: Pet Reduced Damage: (Not shown) Pets/faeries take less damage from AOE’s and direct attacks than normal characters due to their lack of armor and I believe also the bad response time. This is a unwritten rule that you won’t find plainly stated anywhere, this is all from player based observations. AOE’s especially they receive a huge damage reduction, while the exact number is unconfirmed, most AOE’s will do minimal damage to your pet/faerie with a few exceptions, some AOE’s won’t even touch it since your faerie can “fly”. Rouse: lvl42: Increases all damage/HP restoration done by faerie by 40%, faerie becomes immune to stun, sleep, bind, and heavy. Duration of 20 Seconds, Cooldown 60 sec. Instant. This is like the humane way to give your Faerie steroi- I mean… More magic! A 40% increase on a 250 Potency heal you’re not paying MP for every 3 seconds, means 350 potency for free on top of your 400 potency Physick. Now every 3 seconds you’re actually healing for 750 instead of 650 for the price of the cheapest heal all three healer classes get. Very useful!

C - Eos: The Wonder Faerie

Eos is the healing Fairie version of the summon spell variety, she focuses on defense, AoE heal over time, and increasing healing done.

Embrace: 250 Potency heal, 2 second cast, 3 second recast. Eos will heal a target automatically if they fall before 80% HP with this ability, please keep this in mind if your tank is doing a big pull. Either put your faerie away, or constantly spam “Obey” while the pet is on “Steady”, this tactic can be done on both faeries. Good potency heal that can be paired with your healing for some large number. Whispering Dawn: Gradually restores HP of faerie and all nearby party members with a Potency of 100 x 7 ticks = 700 Potency over 21 seconds. Cooldown 60 sec. “Instant”. This is the only regen heal available to you, if Eos is not on steady and obey she will just do this whenever she wants. Fine for leveling up to 60 or so, but you’re going to have to start micromanaging her at some point to get the most out of her, especially endgame raids, extreme trials, or new content dungeons. I put “Instant” because there is about a 1 second cast time, and any orders before it finished will prevent the full cast from being completed, the cooldown is thankfully refunded if the spell does not go off. Fey Covenant: Increase magic defense by 20% for faerie and nearby party members, Lasts 20 seconds, Cooldown 120 sec. “Instant”. Short of being a dark night or using virus, this is really the only way to reduce the magic damage a party takes, again, a huge reason you should control your faerie instead of leaving it on auto; timing this to a magic attack from a boss is a huge life saver on MP and can make the squishier members survive things they shouldn’t. I put “Instant” because there is about a 1 second cast time, and any orders before it is finished will prevent the full cast from being completed, the cooldown is thankfully refunded if the spell does not go off here as well. Fey Illumination: Increase spell based HP restoration of self and nearby party members by 10%, Lasts 20 seconds, Cooldown 120 sec. Instant. Short and sweet, a huge boon to you and the co-healer, but shared Dissipation/Largesse drawback; this DOES NOT affect Lustrate, Indomitability, or Excogitation. This does affect things like an AST’s Essential Dignity or Benefic II, and a WHM’s Cure III or Assize, very potent heals that 20% makes a big difference on. For you this affects Physick, Adloquium, and Succor, but it also boosts your faerie. Combine a Physick and Embrace can reach an 775 Potency heal every 3 seconds for a very cheap cost. Conversely, your 10k Adloquium Crit heals 11k instead, with a 22k shield instead of the 20k shield, combine Emergency Tactics, and you have a 33k heal.

D - Selene: The Multi-Tool Selene is debuff and buff, essentially a poor man’s Ast with some extra utility missing from the other healers. Embrace: 250 Potency heal Same as Eos Silent Dusk: Silence target - Cooldown 40 sec. Instant. I don’t know what we feed Selene, but honestly she is the only pet I leave on “do what you want” mode at all. She will literally only use Silence when it is applicable to something nearby you are attacking having a silence capable ability. Honestly, she deserves some credit here, a Faerie cookie, a pay raise, something. You can literally skip the odd mechanic here and there thanks to her. With a 40 second cooldown, it’s the fastest faerie ability recast aside from Embrace for Eos and Selene. Fey Caress: Remove a single detrimental effect from nearby party members, Cooldown 60 sec. Instant. Okay, if you didn’t think she deserved a treat before, pretty sure she does now. While on auto she may waste this, but she’s still trying to save you from using leeches on the whole party, kudos for trying? If you have her on obey and steady however, you can control and perform the skill at the optimal time and save yourself a massive migraine, even ignore a mechanic; and not when the tank has a poison stack of 1 and everyone one else is ok (she will do this on sic, so beware). Fey Wind: Increase nearby party members weapon skill, spell cast, and recast times by 3% for 30 seconds, Cooldown 60 sec. Instant. Most underappreciated exceptional skill any faerie has, possibly any pet in the game. If you’re running dual scholar, please, please, please consider having one of you decide to use Selene and the other use Eos. 3% more damage for 30 seconds every 60 seconds is a lot in the grand scheme of things; alternately if you’re good for heals and need to pass a Dps check, have your co-scholar and you both use Selene and time it perfectly in tandem for constant buff. That’s a 1.5% (for one Selene)/3% (for 2 Selene’s) damage increase every minute, and if timed with a SMN’s Dreadwyrm Trance, or a BLM’s Enochain- really any DPS and their damage buffs or modes, it’s amazing. That 1.5%/3% a minute over 5 minutes becomes 7.5%/15% more damage done, that may very well be enough to push phases fast enough, kill the boss before the rage wipe mechanic, really just strengthen the party as a whole. While a AST has this capability, it’s 10% for 20 seconds to the whole party as either damage or recast times that may or may not affect your Job, and only if they draw the right cards to share the cast with everyone which is a stroke of dumb luck at times and draws are 30 seconds apart meaning you may not get a group buff like this for another 2 to 3 minutes. Selene is a reliable Dps increase and deserves some love for that, you can leave her on Auto for fights with no debuff mechanic.

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11 - Rotations:

What you’re ideally going to be doing, but is always subject to change based on the needs of the party and what you are able to do with your current MP and Aetherflow.

A - Gaging:

Adloquium the tank, stop and gauge the dps and tank. Did they take a lot of damage, or are the shields still up, did the mobs die? Wait till the shield’s break, counting from the first hit; how long did it take? Based on your answers to these questions you’ll either want to top off with heals, wait and see how much damage the tank can really take, or swap to attacking.

B - DPS:

S1: Shadow flare then Miasma II if 3 or more enemies, otherwise skip to S2 > S2: Miasma > S3: Bio II > S4: Is there a bunch of enemies (3-5 or more)? Have Aetherflow to spare? Then Bane or skip to S5 > S5: Is tank still okay? Broil until damage of time expires.

C- Healing:

Sorry. I can’t really tell you what the healing rotation is because that is a scholar’s best boon, there is no clear rotation, there’s only the situation at hand you will have to learn how to handle each one and ones you didn’t know existed. Other healers have the same problem, but Scholar more so. If anything, Adloquium then Physick is your friend.

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12 - Stratagem:

Here is where I note ability combo’s I’ve learned or theorized, and state the situations I’ve used them in.

Strong AOE DoT heal Ability Order: Rouse, Fey Illumination, Whispering Dawn Use: Good for upcoming AOE damage, or just topping everyone off while dpsing. At ilvl 230 healing went from 800hp per tick to 1.2k per tick .

No Aetherflow - Heals needed Ability Order: Fey Illumination, Largesse, Rouse, Emergency Tactics, Adloquium/Succor Use: Aetherflow is on cooldown, but MP is high, the tank/party needs a big heal but you’re either solo healing or the co-healer kicked the bucket. Can replace Adloquium with Succor. Congrats, at ilvl 230 assuming you crit, you just healed for 21k (7k if you didn’t crit which is a Lustrate heal practically), that’s literally my DRK’s HP pool at ilvl 210 shy of 1k and if you have your Faerie set to co-heal, you just made them survive Living Dead’s effect (DRK has 22k HP even at ilvl 210).

Recharge Faerie Gauge/MP - Warning: High Aetherflow Consumption Ability Order: Aetherflow, spend stacks(Energy Drain if not other abilities), If Eos: Fey Illumination, Dissipation, Largesse, Energy Drain (if low MP or spend stacks accordingly) and/or Lucid Dreaming (spend any stacks, or use Energy Drain for them), if MP is ok, hold onto stacks and use Dissipate in addition to Largesse to heal through faerie absence, resummon faerie, spend stacks, Aetherflow, spend stacks (again, Energy Drain or other abilities). Use: This will build up your Faerie Gauge extremely fast, in as little as 30 seconds if you’re lucky and you can gain 90 points on the gauge. You’re also recovering an absurd amount of MP with this rotation. 20% MP for both aetherflow’s + what you gain for the 560 potency MP refresh of lucid dreaming, and if you used Energy Drain to spend all 9 stacks of aetherflow roughly 1350 Potency restore of MP & HP for self in those 9 stacks alone.

Really big AOE/tank buster coming - Healing needed before and after Ability Order: Rouse, Fey Illumination, if you have Aetherflow stacks spend them on Lustrate topping people off (alternate lustrate, eye for an eye, lustrate if this is the case), Eye for an Eye, Whispering Dawn, Dissipation, Adloquium, Deployment Tactics, Sacred Soil, wait for damage, Indomitability/Lustrate, Lustrate lowest HP/tank, Emergency tactics, Succor. Use: Heal like you mean it and cry for remainder of Dissipations duration till you can Swiftcast/Surecast/long cast a faerie summon; hopefully you have a co-healer while you spend 5 seconds summoning your pet if you do it the long way.

Maximum Eos Overdrive Ability Order: Rouse, Fey Illumination, Aetherpact Use: Simple, this makes your faerie’s heals very strong on single target, almost scary. What you can do is throw in a Whispering Dawn right before Aetherpact and your faerie will be competently healing everyone around you for roughly 20 seconds. With the Faerie Gauge depleting by 10 every 3 seconds at a total 60 gauge, the faerie would be able to make full use of the buff time.

============== 13 - Macro’s: Alright so below I’m going to highlight some things I’ve discovered, useful macro’s that make life easier. Most correspond to controlling your faerie more effectively with less effort. “Attack”: This Macro makes all your attacks attack the target of your target. Why? Because that means you can stay locked on the tank/dps for quick healing, and always attack what the tank/dps is attacking so you never accidentally steal aggro; this also allows you to use the same button to attack things on your own outside of instanced content. Just replace the ability names with the attack you want and have fun. (Can do this for Shadowflare too, remove third line, and it will cast on tank/dps/or the enemy in solo combat, but I prefer not to in case mobs make an oblong shape that requires more finesse.) /micon ruin /ac ruin /ac ruin Please note: I know it’s not rocket science to do this, but if you haven’t tried it yet, I highly recommend it This is a huge quality of life improvement to healers of any job, especially console players. Just make sure to have a focus target macro too so you can watch the boss cast times/spell names. “Faerie! Behave!”: A macro I made to control my faerie more when needed, this interrupts them healing say, Dps with 75% HP left, and opts to heal the tank you are targeting with 40% HP left, because the AI for faerie is not always the brightest. /micon physick /ac physick /pac “Heel” /pac “embrace” Please note: Replace “Physick” with whatever healing ability you would like to pair Eos’ or Selene’s Embrace with yours, good for adding to Esuna for example; this way you not only remove poison, but heal the damage it did. Use to Embrace under a Succor or Adloquium on a priority target that needs a little more attention than the rest of the group. The faerie heals for free, do not forget this! Be sure if you do this to space out your casting and don’t just mash pyhsick, this is why I say cast speed is a low priority early in the guide as you will fall out of sync with Eos/Selene as your recast is roughly 2.5 seconds, and their embrace is a 3 second recast cooldown beginning from start of cast. “Faerie! Help?”: A slight variation on the previous macro; this has your faerie help you if they’re not doing anything else, which is rare, but helpful. /micon physick /ac physick /pac “embrace” “Dance!”: Because it almost looks like you’re dancing with your faerie at times. What this does is pairs Aetherflow with Rouse; this makes it so when you give yourself MP and Aetherflow stacks, Eos also gains a boost to basic healing skills so you can space out the Aetherflow more evenly or give MP time to regenerate by healing less because Eos/Selene is healing more. /micon Aetherflow /ac aetherflow /wait 1 /ac Rouse Please note: The added bonus is both of these are on a 60 second cooldown, and instant casts, so you can move while casting it and not interrupt. You could add an “Obey” for your faerie at the beginning, middle, or end, to get them to follow you if you want to use this as an additional “Move faerie, you’re gonna get hit.” button as well while the skill is on cooldown for double purpose. “Useful Faerie Macros!”: Biggest issue with Eos/Selene is they do whatever the hell they want really, even on “obey” and “steady”; they keep healing anyone below 80% hp instead of casting the skill you want when you want it. Make the following macros instead to not only control Eos and Selene simultaneously without switching hotbars OR making an extra 4 macros. On console you may have to turn off switching to pet bar automatically for this to work best. Obey!: /micon “Steady” pet /pac obey /wait 1 /pac steady Embrace: /micon embrace pet /pac heel /pac embrace AOE DOT / Silence: /micon “Whispering dawn” pet /pac heel /pac “Silent Dusk” /pac “Whispering dawn” M Res / Rmv Debuff: /micon “Fey covenant” pet /pac heel /pac “Fey Covenant” /pac “Fey Caress” Heal Buff / ATK Spd: /micon “Fey Illumination” pet /pac heel /pac “fey Illumination” /pac “fey Wind” Please note: As long as you remember/reteach yourself what Selene’s spells look like, this is extremely handy to use so you don’t access your pet bar and slow yourself down when you could be casting; or use 8 macros for what you can do in 4. Alternatively you can set up 2 Macro’s in the following style to replace your summon spells that remap your skills depending on which faerie is out. Summon Eos: /micon “Summon” /ac “Summon” /hotbar pac “Fey Illumination” 2 4 /hotbar pac “Fey Covenant” 2 3 /hotbar pac “Whispering dawn” 2 2 ==============

14 - Hotbars:

As a show to demonstrate my layout, see the below picture and the reasoning behind the madness:

The top row is my pet bar, you will have to click these abilities manually. Second from top (Hotbar 3) is Shift + Numbers/symbols “1 to =” across the top of my keyboard. Second from bottom (Hotbar 2) is Ctrl + Numbers/symbols “1 to =” across the top of my keyboard. And the bottom row (Hotbar 1) is numbers/symbols “1 to =” across the top of my keyboard.

The skills here constantly shift around, it would be impossible to always keep this up to date, but you can use the theory of: Healing bottom row, pet control and casting buff and resurrect middle row, attacks top row.

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15 - Gaming Gear/Work Around:

I do have a Logitech G600 mouse, highly recommend it if you have 50$-60$ to spare, definitely if you see it on sale. Also have used a Razer Naga for similar effect. Can also switch out numbers for numpad and play with both hands on keyboard, just remap Z, X, C, and V on your keyboard or similar to your thumb’s comfort so you can use your thumb for the first 3x3 set of squares, so on and so forth. I even setup a key to make the bottom hotbar switch between hotbar 1 and 4 with 1 being full control and 4 being partial control versions of my heal macros for my faerie. You can then setup / and * to cycle targets close to far and - and + to cycle party members up and down with Enter being “select”, you can always get to say by doing “alt+s” and do the same for other chats like linkshells, party, and FC chat. I did this for a while when my mouse was damaged…

Have I spent a lot of time optimizing this to be the best for me? Yes, yes I have. But this may not work for you; so please try, comment, share, and enjoy.

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