Scholar Fairy, which to use?

I heard that a chocobo can even outheal the healing fairy now. Should I be using the buff fairy instead? need more info. I got a free 70 SCH with my 70 SMN and would like to learn to play it (even tho SE can't balance healers so it kinda sucks)

Both fairies is worthless now for healing. All healing spells heal for more than they do now.

Generally people use Eos because of Whispering Dawn and Fey Illumination, both of which provide more dps openings.
If you're confident you don't need these you could use Selene, but I don't know whether the extra healing you have to provide (and thus less personal dps) is off-set by Fey Wind

To put it more simply, you're better using healing fairy in most situations

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Originally Posted by hynaku

Both fairies is worthless now for healing. All healing spells heal for more than they do now.

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one of them isn't supposed to heal it buffs. I'm asking if its better to use that one instead.

They both suck. Use whichever one you want.

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Originally Posted by hynaku

Both fairies is worthless now for healing. All healing spells heal for more than they do now.

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False hyperbole.

Fairies should NEVER heal for more than the actual healer does.

As to the OP, Eos is the current preferred fairy due to her more useful cooldowns. Selene's abilities are a bit on the underwhelming side.

I've been using Eos especially if I'm in a 4-man dungeon. Selene helps little with intense healing in big pulls and Eos gives you a nice healing buff, AoE regen and a defense cd.

I'd hardly call a 3% "haste" a buff, so dubbing Selene buff fairy seems unreasonable to me :P her Silence skill MIGHT be of use to you like once every hundred fights, and there are not a lot of fights where a team wide cleanse is enough to summon her over Eos.

At least Eos makes more use of Rouse and gives you access to the only HoT you'll ever see as a SCH, so I tend to lean toward that one more. In dungeons her HoT is often an opportunity for you to DPS more so that is also nice, if you're into/comfortable with DPSing as a healer. Just put all her stuff on cooldown, tether her to the tank, and go nuts with miasma 2 or emote spam!

But like, I do a ton more with a single Indom than either of them in a fight, so...

Pick whichever color scheme you like best or whatever.

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Originally Posted by Sylvina

one of them isn't supposed to heal it buffs. I'm asking if its better to use that one instead.

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Both faries have the same basic healing capabilities. The differences only exist in their cooldowns.

Selene can silence (which is typically irrelevant while also being finnicky to use), dispel in an AoE (which is irrelevant in almost all cases) and can buff 3% attack speed in an AoE with 50% uptime.

Eos has an AoE regen with a 33% uptime, an AoE magic resist buff, and an AoE healing recieved buff.

Eos has far more useful abilities for you, so you'll want to use her most of the time. However, if you want to make use of Selene's buff still, you could try summoning her before a boss fight, using Fey Wind and then Dissipation her away after quickly burning through your initial aetherflow stacks. And then swiftcast Eos back out afterwards.

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Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

False hyperbole.

Fairies should NEVER heal for more than the actual healer does.

As to the OP, Eos is the current preferred fairy due to her more useful cooldowns. Selene's abilities are a bit on the underwhelming side.

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Wrong they should heal for same amount as cure 1 since sch lacks in healing spells that a whm and ast have.