Intro
Scholar is the strategist’s healer, combining a powerful pet, barrier-based mitigation, and tactical Aetherflow management. Whether you’re pushing Savage content or just leveling through dungeons, Onlyfarms.gg offers the fastest way to get raid-ready with our premium Leveling, Gearing, Extreme Trial, and Mount farming services.
🧠 1. What is Scholar’s Playstyle?
Scholar is a barrier healer that focuses on preventative healing, remote support via its fairy, and smart resource (Aetherflow) management. It’s ideal for players who enjoy planning ahead, applying shields preemptively, and flexing between healing and DPS responsibilities.
| Role Type |
Playstyle Focus |
Complexity |
| Barrier Healer |
Mitigation, strategic DPS |
🧩 Medium–High |
🧠 A well-played Scholar balances mitigation, burst healing, and fairy positioning to maximize uptime and party safety.
✅ 2. Scholar Strengths and Weaknesses
| Strengths |
Weaknesses |
| ✅ Some of the strongest mitigation tools in the game |
❌ Conflicting abilities can limit fluid rotations |
| ✅ Remote healing via fairy |
❌ Loses DPS when Aetherflow is used on healing |
| ✅ Highest raid DPS potential among healers in optimal comps |
❌ Limited instant-cast heals without DPS trade-offs |
🗺️ 3. How to Unlock Scholar
| Requirement |
Details |
| Base Class |
Arcanist (Limsa Lominsa, X:4.5, Y:11.2) |
| Unlock Quest |
“Forgotten but Not Gone” from Murie after class & MSQ progression |
| Level Required |
30 (Arcanist) + Level 20 MSQ “Sylph-Management” |
📌 Scholar is free-to-play friendly—no expansion required to unlock the job.
🔋 4. Scholar Job Gauges Explained
| Gauge |
Max Resource |
Source & Usage |
| Aetherflow |
3 Stacks |
Fuel for powerful oGCD heals (Lustrate, Indomitability) or DPS (Energy Drain) |
| Faerie Gauge |
100 Fae Aether |
Used for Fey Union, gained by using Aetherflow actions |
| Seraph Timer |
22s duration |
Shows active time left for Summon Seraph fairy summon |
💡 Tip: Efficient Scholars use Aetherflow mostly for DPS while relying on fairy and oGCD heals.
⚔️ 5. Core Scholar Abilities (Combat Overview)
📊 Key Healing & Mitigation
| Skill |
Type |
Description |
| Adloquium |
GCD Heal |
Single-target heal + shield (scales with crit) |
| Succor |
GCD AoE |
AoE party heal + shield |
| Lustrate |
oGCD Heal |
600 potency single-target heal, Aetherflow-based |
| Indomitability |
oGCD AoE |
400 potency AoE heal, efficient with Faerie regen and Sacred Soil layering |
| Excogitation |
Auto-Heal |
Triggers when HP falls below 50% — strong for tank busters |
| Sacred Soil |
Ground AoE |
10% AoE mitigation zone + regen |
| Deployment Tactics |
Utility |
Spreads shields from one ally to the group |
🔥 DPS Abilities
| Skill |
Description |
| Biolysis |
DoT (80 potency/30s), replaces Bio |
| Broil IV |
Main spam damage spell (310 potency) |
| Energy Drain |
Instant oGCD damage + self-heal, uses Aetherflow |
🧚♀️ 6. Fairy Management
| Faerie Type |
Key Abilities |
Role |
| Eos |
Embrace, Whispering Dawn, Fey Blessing |
Standard healing companion |
| Seraph |
Seraphic Veil, Consolation, Angel’s Whisper |
Enhanced healing & barrier utility |
📌 Fey Union heals your target over time (channeling). Keep your fairy in range and avoid interruptions for maximum efficiency.
💡 7. Rotation Basics (Dungeon/Trial/Endgame)
🌀 Dungeon Flow:
- Pre-pull: Biolysis → Broil spam → Sacred Soil if needed
- Mitigate with Fey Illumination or Whispering Dawn
- Use Energy Drain when safe
- Lustrate or Excogitation to stabilize tanks
🔥 Raid Opener (Example):
| Step |
Action |
| Prepull |
Biolysis |
| GCD 1 |
Broil IV |
| oGCD |
Chain Stratagem |
| oGCD |
Energy Drain |
| oGCD |
Fey Illumination |
| Action |
Purpose |
| Esuna |
Remove debuffs |
| Lucid Dreaming |
Restore MP over time |
| Swiftcast |
Use with Resurrection or emergency Adlo |
| Surecast |
Anti-knockback |
| Rescue |
Pull teammates out of danger |
🧙 9. Scholar Traits Summary
| Trait Name |
Effect |
| Broil Mastery IV |
Unlocks Broil IV (310 potency) |
| Corruption Mastery II |
Upgrades Bio II to Biolysis |
| Enhanced Sacred Soil |
Adds regen to Sacred Soil |
| Maim and Mend II |
+30% healing/damage, applies to faerie too |
| Enhanced Chain Stratagem |
Grants Baneful Impaction unlock at Lv. 92 |
📜 10. Scholar Lore (Aetherial Strategy and Faerie Power)
Once defenders of the ancient city-state Nym, Scholars wove magic through battlefield tactics and faerie support. In modern Eorzea, they remain one of the few who channel magic not only to heal, but to predict and prevent damage with strategic mastery.
“They do not wait to mend wounds—they prevent them from happening at all.”
🎯 Why Play Scholar in Dawntrail?
- 🧠 Most tactical healing kit in FFXIV
- 🔥 Highest DPS ceiling among healers when optimized
- 🧚♀️ Unique remote healing mechanics via pet
- ⚔️ Dominant in Savage, PvP, and high-mobility content
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