Scholar in manaburns huh!?Follow

ok so i keep hearing lots of storys about scholars joining manaburns so much that
well it seems to be a common practice among us to join manaburns so here is my question, what is our role in manaburn party's and how common is it for a single person to get into them at any givin moment

Because the only reason to invite a Scholar to a manaburn is because there's no more BLMs. Really. When you join a manaburn and you see the BLMs doing their tier IV nukes while you put along with your tier IIIs, you'll be sad.

I asked the parties if they wanted me to cast the weather spells. After I told them what they did, they told me to "just nuke" the monsters.

so scholars are invited but to buff / replace a blm when nobody else can ok thanks for your help guys much apreciated

Here is the breakdown although sch doesnt get tier 4 spells it still does awesome dmg with tier 3, not to mention the helix's and weather spells help out a lot more than you think.

as far as nukeing go's:
BLM > SCH > RDM

Don't take full parties to puddings. That's a solo camp. Go to a real party camp.

It's a solo camp for people who can actually solo them. There's nothing wrong with a duo or trio there.

true, but if you have a full party of blm's, then please, go to another camp.
When i search for a party as a blm, i solo those puddings. but i state in my searchcomment that i do not party on those puddings. These are good to solo, or in smaller groups. when i party, i try to find a real party where there is atleast some coördination, instead of the "ZOMG a pudding popped! Thunder IV!" This can be really annoying when you solo and open with AMII and you get the message "your target is already claimed" before you finish casting.

As for Sch in manaburns: i have fire-ice-thunder-dark obi's. A scholar would make for some sweet love. ^^

Strategy...? I've done the same thing since I started. It involves engaging the mob, waiting for that bar to hit 100%, then make mob dead.

And don't die.

Sometimes cure the people in the party. Maybe.

The BLM should be a lot better at it. Unless you had sh*t BLMs, which is to be expected these days.

We've been using Scholar as a Black Mage to nuke, not cast the -helix line of spells. I haven't heard of anyone using the -helix spells for anything, really. I know someone posted a few pictures of them being used on sky guards, but he has another jobs he can do on that would be more useful.

So we can cram everyone back into the single decent merit camp we had before, woo-hoo!

Exactly: Black Mages were at the top, along with Ranger. Everyone was leveling Black Mage and Ranger. If you weren't a Black Mage or Ranger, the scrublets didn't want you. The real Linkshells still realized the power of other jobs, but a properly geared Black Mage or Ranger would still do the most damage. This idea trickled down to XP parties and everyone thought they needed a Black Mage in the party. That was never the case, nor was it the best way to XP, but people thought it was. I'm glad we moved away from that. I cringed everytime I heard a BLM say "let's set up the Freeze MB" because of the BNS. I stopped inviting Black Mages and I loved it.

See, players started using their heads. I was Meleex3, DRK, BRD, RDM at Main D.Weaps long before ToAU came out. Right now, I can build a level 50 party and go to a non-ToAU area and get better XP without a Black Mage (assuming I invite good players). That's the way it's always been, in XP. People just thought they needed a Black Mage for their womg AncientMagiclol damage.

In ToAU areas, though...Black Mages did get screwed. Partially by the playerbase, partially by SE. Imps and Colibri, while squishy, are terrible targets for a Black Mage. Black Mages can still function in ToAU areas (there are Crawlers, Puks, FlyTraps, and Diremites) but the playerbase has decided that they don't need Black Mages. Will this change? No, I don't think so. Black Mage is extremely useful, but not in the majority of "burn" situations. I have difficulty thinking of a solution SE would implement that would speed BLMs up without slowing XP parties down. Recently, SE seems to be attempting to move their game away from the super-grindfest (when compared with certain other MMOs).

Short version: Yeah, ToAU isn't a friend to the Black Mage.