SCH, Energy Drain, and 6.0

There is a noteable difference between a regular goose chase, and a terrible one.

FFXIV's goose chase is clearly the latter alone for the fact that that everyone not only has infinitely self restoring combat potions, but are also backed up by a Healing battery until either the ranged dps or the healer drops the soap from all the stale combat.

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Originally Posted by Anhra

SCH's Aetherflow is more a hindrance than useful ressource. The damage healers do is so bad, that the ONLY way to progress trough the later floors of PotD (140+) is by having to step on landmines in order to get anything killed, or else you spent spammimg that joke of a dpskit for over 2 Minutes on a single enemy, let that sink in for a moment here (also spare me with those Raid shadow legends excuses. Raiding isn't everything about the endgame).

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"Aetherflow is more of a hindrance", then a rant on how low healer dps is. I fail to see the relationship between the two, or your comment as a response to mine? Or your point? I also never mentioned raiding. ?_? I'm so confused.

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Originally Posted by Anhra

And it is even worse in PvP. PvP should be designed arround 1on1 combat in order to function properly, not on teamfights. Healers are just a annoyance there that can neither kill or be killed (unless you face a first timer who ends up panicing), they just exist to make combat last longer than it should.

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PvP absolutely does not need to be balanced around 1v1. Rock-Paper-scissors balance is a very common practice in game design and one you see in PvP quite frequently (and is just one of many examples that contradict your statement). That said, SE can definitly improve on their PvP, it just plain sucks.

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Originally Posted by SweetPete

Devs already said they want aetherflow to be used for healing not energy drain which is why they severely nerfed it. My guess is they will remove energy drain again along with aetherflow as it serves little purpose now. The mp gain is negligible at best. Just give lustrate 3 charges and Indomitability 2 charges. Leave sacred soil on a 30 second cooldown and leave excog on its 45 second cooldown and be done with aetherflow. It’s just gotten worst and worst over each expansion. Sick of that ability now. Change dissipation to a recharge of 1 lustrate and 1 indomitability on a 90 second cooldown and call it a day.

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Exactly, plus if they remove Energy Drain altogether, they should either add a Shielding aetherflow spender, or else you'll end up just overhealing with spare charges.