How much skill is needed for...Follow

given the current gear in the game, i think the best we can do is 320 skill and 107int (+4-7 with normal foods) go cream puffs!

read the sch vs blm section of Kanican's live journal

http://kanican.livejournal.com/26917.html#cutid2

"This does not reach the necessary minimum stats generally accepted by Black Mages to be effective in resistive HNM fights such as Tiamat; however, it is VERY close. Given a few more gear additions in the future, Scholar could easily reach either of the generally accepted tiers. Currently, it is NOT an effective nuker on resistive HNMs without buffs since it cannot reach the necessary stat tiers though." - Kaeko

with klimaform and the right weather, we can land stuff a bit more reliably it seems, but the recast kinda sucks and you'd need, i think (rough math), 5 scholars (4 if you figure in some resting periods) to rotate klimaform on the party to efficiently use klimaform.

with that I say, please be kind to blm's in your endgame parties, share klimaform with them =)

Well, from what I can see now...my skill level to land some nukes unresisted is pretty good. I still seem to have close to same DMG as BLM or more then others at times.
I recently fought JoL and managed to land 500-600DMG Blizzard IIIs in nuke/rest cycle. Fought Proto-Ultima last night with few resist even using full DMG gear and managed to finish it off when things started going bad. Though there was a BLM starting to nuke and a SMN about to Netherblast it if I had went down. So, I didn't exactly "save the day" there but I guess it was close enough.

Well, I can only speak from a BLM standpoint, but when it comes to nuking HNMs, BLMs shoot for 330 as a minimum. So, I think if you can get close to that, you'll be ok.