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 manoeuvring 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.
An Arcanist can become a Scholar by equipping the Soul of the Scholar item after completing the first quest. The details for this quest are below.
| Quest | NPC | Location | Conditions |
| Forgotten but Not Gone | Murie | Limsa Lominsa Upper Decks, Arcanists’ Guild | ACN 30 |
For each quest you complete, you will be rewarded with a new ability, while the latter quests will also reward you with artifact (AF) armour that is shown in the screenshot above.
Introduction to Scholar
Scholar is a healing job that branches off Arcanist. Its role is to restore the HP of party members that take damage from monsters, cure bad status effects from party members and to revive fallen members of the party upon death. The Scholar can also deal damage with DoTs just like Arcanist and Summoner but this should be seen as secondary to everything else.
Scholar Attributes
As a Scholar your main attribute is Mind (MND) as this increases healing magic potency. You should be focusing on equipment with this stat. For secondary stats you should be focusing on the likes of Spell Speed, Direct Hit Rate, Determination and Critical Hit Rate in addition to simply boosting MND.
Spell Speed and Critical Hit Rate are self explanatory in what they do. For the other two, Determination is used to boost the damage dealt by all attacks and the amount of HP recovered when healed while Direct Hit Rate is Stormblood’s replacement for Accuracy. Instead of a simple hit or miss effect that Accuracy could give, having low Direct Hit Rate for a fight will reduce damage dealt so it is important to improve this stat.
Scholar Fairies
There are two types of fairies; a healer and a support type. Eos is the healer and Selene is for support. Most of the time you will use Eos to aid with your healing. She also has an ability called Whispering Dawn which gives a regen effect. You should be manually using this ability when it is needed rather than leaving it up to the pet.
Selene is more useful when the Scholar does not need the additional healing from Eos, for example when clearing trash monsters in a dungeon. The spell/skill speed buffs will help out more.