LogFAQs > #971115723

The fairy is a pretty important part of the kit for Scholar. It probably doesn't matter if you're just doing dungeons and can keep your party alive without struggling. If you're doing EX or Savage then you're gonna need it, yeah.

That said, none of the classes are really that complicated to just get to use. If you really wanna be good at the class is when they get a little harder because you need to align your rotation to account for downtime, raidwides, and such.

The best tip I can give you is to always roll your gcds. It's always better to do something than nothing. You should be mainly healing with ogcds if you have them. Healing with gcds is pretty much your last resort.

People move their fairies to the middle of the arena for a bit of optimization, at most, you don't need the other pet commands like Sic and Stay. You definitely need the fairy skills though