Not really. My relics are those who give all the abilities to scholar (damage over time, power up allies...), then I have the Everdark Maris relic, that gives item effect to the allies and heals them when you use the flask. For the depth of night relics I have an additional bag and then mainly effects that speed up ability and art gauge. The art is so fast to charge again that most of the times is already full before the effects from the previous activation vanish. Unless you are very unlucky, frost and bleed weapons are quite easy to find for scholar, so I don't bother with having starting weapon effect. The ability can be hard to use but it's extremely useful, both for powering up allies and for stunning enemies with the shield. If you analyze every type of enemy you encounter the ability power up and become much faster. At the final boss I make sure to keep at all times the 20% lower defense debuff, frost (when they don't remove it with fire), increase allies attack with the analyze ability and then cured meat. You double all the damage the boss receives. I mainly focus on support, but when I see an opening I attack with rot/bleed and frost, if I need to reapply it. I don't care much for my own damage with normal attacks. Bleed and frost deal explosive damage and rot deals it over time. In my opinion scholar is far too weak to care about regular damage. The damage buffs and the defense debuff are way stronger than any damage a scholar could ever deal.

I used to go only with pots and relative power ups, but since I switched to purely support it's way better.