Recuperative Treatise vs Inspired Scholarship — what top parses actually run
A contested Arcanist Stamina DPS choice, settled with data instead of forum arguments: of the measured top-end parses slotting one of the two, 96% run Inspired Scholarship.
measured from 16,943 real DPS parses (ESO Logs public API, Update 50, pulled 2026-07-23)| Recuperative Treatise | Inspired Scholarship | |
|---|---|---|
| Builds slotting it | 252 | 5,741 |
| Median DPS of those builds | 87,042 | 93,794 |
Our neural net agrees with the crowd's direction: Inspired Scholarship -7.1% vs Recuperative Treatise -7.3% (learned value vs the average slotted ability).
FAQ
Recuperative Treatise or Inspired Scholarship — which should I use?
Among 5,993 measured top-end Arcanist Stamina DPS parses slotting one of them, 96% run Inspired Scholarship. Median DPS: 93,794 with Inspired Scholarship vs 87,042 with Recuperative Treatise. That's the revealed preference of skilled players, not theorycraft.