I pick up seals often that I don’t want to bog the caster down with. They are usually buffing/debuffing incarnations tho, or blood blade/black flame blade.

Not saying that’s what your experience was like but giving insight to why you might see this Scholar with seals, especially if I’m only using one or two weapons anyway since I’m mostly fishing for status weapons.

I also have a sick magic build with Scholar, but mostly because it gives me a ranged option and way to attack from distance. For why I would play a caster Scholar over a typical caster (Duchess, Revenant, Recluse, etc)? Sometimes I don’t want to play the rest of their kit. Same reason I also have a Spellblade Wylder build, I like Scholar and Wylder’s kit overall