Scholar
Lore
"In an age long past, when mankind flourished under the radiance of arcane mastery, the island of Vylbrand was home to a city-state called Nym. Though the history of that age tells of countless wars waged with earth-shattering incantations, it was the brilliant strategic maneuvering of Nym's scholars that allowed their mundane army of mariners to throw back would-be conquerers time and again. These learned men and women defended the freedom of their tiny nation with their unique command over spell-weaving faeries, utilizing the creatures' magicks to heal the wounded and bolster the strength of their allies." — Game Description
General Information
Scholars are healers with fairies as their pets. Scholar is evolved from the class Arcanist, as is Summoner. Wielding books, Scholars have all the abilities and traits of Arcanists. The most important stat for the scholar is mind, which increases healing magic potency. The level of your Scholar is equivalent to that of your Arcanist. Scholars use books as weapons, and do not equip anything in their off-hand.
Requirement
- Level 30 Arcanist
- Completion of Main Scenario quest: Sylph-management
- Completion of Arcanist Class quest: Sinking Doesmaga
After completing the level 30 Arcanist quest and fulfilling the aforementioned level requirements, speak with Murie, the Arcanist Guild Receptionist. You will receive the quest Forgotten but Not Gone, which will grant a Scholar Soul Crystal upon completion. Additional Scholar quests are available every 5 levels from Alka Zolka inside the Marauder's guild in Limsa Lominsa Upper Decks.
The Scholar job is equipped through the armory chest soul crystals tab in the bottom right-hand corner. It may be removed by unequipping the soul crystal in the bottom right-hand corner of the character window.
Bonus attribute points previously spent in the Arcanist class are not reset when the scholar job is equipped.
Trainer Locations
NPC | Location | Description |
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Murie | Limsa Lominsa Lower Decks (x5,y11) | Job Start for ARR |
Alka Zolka | Limsa Lominsa Upper Decks (x11,y6) | Job Trainer for 30-50 |
Alka Zolka | Limsa Lominsa Upper Decks (x11,y6) | Job Start for Heavensward |
Surito Carito | Upper La Noscea (x26,y22) | Job Trainer for 52-60 |
Alka Zolka | Limsa Lominsa Upper Decks (x11.1,y6.2) | Job Start for Stormblood |
Actions
As of Final Fantasy XIV's 4.0 expansion Stormblood. There are changes in the skill set available for Scholar/Arcanist, the list of abilities lost are as follows:
- Eye for an Eye is part of the Role Actions (DPS only).
- Miasma II
- Spur
- Sustain
- Virus is removed and replaced by Role Actions, split into Addle for caster DPS (affecting magic stats) and Feint for melee DPS (affecting physical stats).
Action | Icon | Level | Cast Time | Cooldown | Range | Radius | Description |
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Adloquium | 30 | 2.0s | 2.5s | 30y | 0 | Restores target's HP. Cure Potency: 300 Additional Effect: Erects a magicked barrier which nullifies damage equaling the amount of HP restored. When critical HP is restored, damage nullification is doubled for 30s. Effect cannot be stacked with Nocturnal Sect. | |
Succor | 35 | 2.5s | 2.5s | 0 | 15y | Restores own HP and the HP of all nearby party members. Cure Potency: 150 Additional Effect: Erects a magicked barrier which nullifies damage equaling the amount of HP restored for 30s. Effect cannot be stacked with Nocturnal Sect. | |
Leeches | 40 | 1.0s | 2.5s | 30y | 0 | Removes a single detrimental effect from target. | |
Sacred Soil | 45 | Instant | 30s | 30y | 8y | Creates a designated area in which party members will have damage taken reduced by 10% for 15s. Additional Effect: 20% chance that next Succor will cost no MP for 15s. Can only be used when under the effect of Aetherflow. Cannot be used with any other area-creating actions. | |
Lustrate | 50 | Instant | 1.0s | 30y | 0y | Restores target's HP. Cure Potency: 600 Only available when under the effect of Aetherflow. | |
Indomitability | 52 | Instant | 30s | 0y | 15y | Restores own HP and the HP of all nearby party members. Cure Potency: 400 Can only be executed while under the effect of Aetherflow. | |
Broil | 54 | 2.5s | 2.5s | 25y | 0y | Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 170. | |
Deployment Tactics | 56 | Instant | 120s | 30y | 2y | Extends Eye for an Eye and Galvanize* effects cast by you to party members nearby the target. Duration: The time remaining on the original target's effects. No effect when target is not under the effect of either Eye for an Eye or Galvanize*. | |
Emergency Tactics | 58 | Instant | 30s | 0y | 0y | Transforms the next Galvanize* status into HP recovery equaling the amount of damage reduction intended for the barrier for 15s. | |
Dissipation | 60 | Instant | 180s | 0y | 0y | Orders your pet away while granting you a full Aetherflow stack. Also increases healing magic potency by 20% for 35s (PvP 45s). Summon or Summon II cannot be executed while under the effect of Dissipation. | |
Excogitation | -NA- | 62 | Instant | 60s | 30y | 0y | Grants target party member other than self the effect of Excogitation, restoring HP when member's HP falls below 50%. Cure Potency: 650 Only available while under the effect of Aetherflow |
Broil II | -NA- | 64 | 2.45s | 2.45s | 25y | 0y | Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 230. |
Chain Strategem | -NA- | 66 | Instant | 90s | 25y | 0y | Increase the rate at which target takes critical hits by 20%. Duration: 15s |
Aetherpact | -NA- | 70 | Instant | 5s | 30y | 0y | Orders faerie to execute Fey Union with target party member other than self. Faerie Gauge Cost: 10 Effect ends upon reuse. |
Pet Actions
Note: Eos and Selene replace Carbuncle as the Scholar's Summon I and II.
Eos
Action | Icon | Level | Cast Time | Cooldown | Range | Radius | Description |
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Summon | 4 | 6.0s | 2.5s | 0 | 0 | Summons a healer-type pet to fight at your side. | |
Embrace | 4 | 2.0s | 3.0s | 30y | 0 | Restore target's HP. Cure Potency: 300 | |
Whispering Dawn | 4 | 2.0s | 60s | 0 | 15y | Gradually restores own HP and the HP of all nearby party members for 21s Cure Potency: 100 | |
Fey Covenant | 20 | Instant | 120s | 0 | 15y | Increases magic defense of self and nearby party members by 20% for 20s. | |
Fey Illumination | 40 | Instant | 120s | 0 | 15y | Increases cure magic potency of self and nearby party members by 20% for 20s. |
Selene
Action | Icon | Level | Cast Time | Cooldown | Range | Radius | Description |
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Summon II | 15 | 6.0s | 2.5s | 0 | 0 | Summons a support-type pet to fight at your side. | |
Embrace | 15 | 2.0s | 3.0s | 30y | 0 | Restore target's HP. Cure Potency: 300 | |
Silent Dawn | 15 | Instant | 40s | 25y | 0 | Silences target for 1s. | |
Fey Caress | 20 | Instant | 60s | 0 | 20y | Removes a single detrimental effect from all nearby party members. Some effects cannot be removed. When Obey is active, will only execute upon command. | |
Fey Wind | 40 | Instant | 60s | 0 | 20y | Increases attack speed of self and nearby party members by 3% for 30s. |
General Commands
Action | Icon | Description |
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Away | Order pet to leave the battlefield. | |
Heel | Order pet to follow behind you. | |
Place | Order pet to move to a specific location. | |
Stay | Order pet to remain where it is. | |
Guard | Order pet to refrain from attacking until you attack or are attacked. | |
Steady | Order pet to refrain from attacking until ordered to do so. | |
Sic | Order pet to attack. | |
Obey | Order pet to attack, but refrain from using certain actions until ordered to do so. |
Role Actions
As of patch 4.0, cross-class actions have been removed in favor of role actions shared by all classes performing a given role. Below are the role actions for this job:
Healer | |||
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Action | Icon | Level | Description |
Cleric Stance | 8 | Increases attack magic potency by 5%. | |
Break | 12 | Deals unaspected damage and adds Heavy +40% to target. | |
Protect | 16 | Increases physical and magical defense of all party members within 15 yards of target. | |
Esuna | 20 | Removes a single detrimental effect from target. | |
Lucid Dreaming | 24 | Reduces enmity by half, and grants Refresh (Status) for 21s. | |
Swiftcast | 32 | Next spell is cast instantly. | |
Eye for an Eye | 36 | Erects a magical barrier around target party member or pet. | |
Largesse | 40 | Increases healing magic potency by 20%. | |
Surecast | 44 | Next spell is cast without interruption. | |
Rescue | 48 | Pulls target party member to you. |
PvP Actions
Action | Icon | Type | Cost | Cast Time | Cooldown | Range | Radius | Description |
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Broil (PvP) | spell | 500 MP | 1.8 | 2.3s | ?? | ?? | Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 1,000. Additional Effect: Reduces target's MP by 1,000 and TP by 100 | |
Physick (PvP) | spell | 250 MP | 1.3 | 2.3s | ?? | ?? | Restores target's HP. Cure Potency: 2,500 Additional Effect: Increases Faerie Gauge by 5 when action is used on self or party member while in combat | |
Adloquium (PvP) | spell | 1000 MP | 1.3 | 2.3s | ?? | ?? | Restores target's HP. Cure Potency: 2,500 Additional Effect: Erects a magicked barrier which nullifies damage equaling the amount of HP restored. Duration: 15s Additional Effect: Increases Faerie Gauge by 5 when action is used on self or party member while in combat | |
Eye for an Eye (PvP) | ability | - | 0 | 45s | ?? | ?? | Erects a magicked barrier around self or single party member. Duration: 6s Barrier Effect: When barrier is struck, the striker will deal 10% less damage Duration: 6s | |
Aetherflow (PvP) | ability | - | 0 | 45s | ?? | ?? | Restores 2,000 MP. Additional Effect: Aetherflow III | |
Lustrate (PvP) | ability | Aetherflow: 1 | 0 | 1s | ?? | ?? | Restores target's HP. Cure Potency: 2,500 Additional Effect: Increases Faerie Gauge by 10 Additional Effect: Reduces Aetherflow recast time by 5s Additional effects activate when action is used on self or party member while in combat. Aetherflow Gauge Cost: 1 | |
Aura Blast (PvP) | ability | - | 0 | 60s | ?? | ?? | Deals a 10-yalm knockback. Additional Effect: Heavy +25% Duration: 4s | |
Chain Strategem (PvP) | ability | Aetherflow: 1 | 0 | 10s | ?? | ?? | Increases target's damage taken by 10%. Duration: 6s Additional Effect: Reduces Aetherflow recast time by 5s Aetherflow Gauge Cost: 1 | |
Summon (PvP) | ability | Faerie Gauge: 10 | 0 | 3s | ?? | ?? | Summons the faerie Eos to fight at your side. Each time you use a healing action on an ally, Eos will execute Embrace on the same target. Faerie Gauge Cost: 10 Depletes Faerie Gauge by 10 periodically while summoned. | |
Unsummon (PvP) | ability | - | 0 | 3s | ?? | ?? | Orders Eos back to the aether. | |
Embrace (PvP) | spell | - | 0 | -s | ?? | ?? | Restores target's HP. Cure Potency: 1,500 Can only be executed while Eos is summoned. ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar. |
Quests
Job Gauge
Official Lodestone Job Guide (Always up-to-date)
Aetherflow & Faerie Gauge is Scholar's Job Gauge.
Aetherflow Gauge
Upon learning the action Aetherflow, the Aetherflow Gauge will be displayed, indicating stacks of Aetherflow.
Aetherflow can be used to execute certain actions such as Lustrate (acquired at level 45) and Excogitation (acquired at level 62).
Simple Mode
Faerie Gauge
Upon learning the action Aetherpact, you'll be able to view the Faerie Gauge, which displays the amount of fae aether.
Fae aether is accumulated when you use Aetherflow to execute certain actions such as Lustrate or Excogitation during battle while a faerie is summoned. Accumulated fae aether can then be used to perform Aetherpact.
Upon learning the action Summon Seraph, you can temporarily call Seraph to fight alongside you in place of Eos. The Faerie Gauge will indicate how much time remains before she must return.
Simple Mode
Aetherpact Duration
Seraph Duration
Scholar Guide
Endgame Rotations
DPS:
-> Pre cast -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> x2 -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> … (weave in if you need to move)
Scholar Macros
Images
Hyur Scholar Scholar Concept Art 400px Right: Scholar with Fairy