A shield is still a shield, it will go away after its duration expires, then we are left with a unhealed party member. A WHM do the same thing with medica 2 will result in a fully healed one. Our only choice is to keep spamming Succor which costs us massive amount of mana and TIME and trying to overwrite that useless shield over and over without actual benefit (since the damage is done already).
Also, may I remind you again there aint much benefit in pre-shielding in this current tier of gear. At 150 potency a pop the shield is like 200+ HP, compared to around 3.1 HP requirement for Titan HM to last through his stomps. Not even 10%HP. And it requires a regular cast time to boost. If SCH is THAT powerful in preventive department, there shouldnt be a HP req. in the first place, no? Shielding works.... but only on paper.
At its current state, it DOES not. Thats why I was repeatedly telling you to actually try a SCH to see if it works. The only AoE HoT (not even direct AoE!) it has got relatively long CD, then it spams it away the moment the tank got the tiniest of scratch. Setting it to passive doesnt help, as you need to spam embrace and as soon as you use it the fairy is back to auto mode to fire off al CDs again.Does the pet have any AE healing abilities?
Also, the reason they are healing half, is because half is a shield.. so if they have healing added, it would be stronger than medica. With pre-shielding, some of the damage should have been absorbed already, so there is not as much damage to heal. Theoretically.
If you make the heal increase if a shield is present to be equal to medica, then you basically get medica + a shield. You have an adaptive heal that is superior to medica.
You cant control them during casting (so the supposedly flexibility is non existant). You can force yourself to a different play style to accommodate for the clunky mechanics, you still cant do shyt about its idiotic AI as I described above.I sincerely apologize as i am a ignorant white mage. i have no clue but i think so.... problem is... Fairy is hard to control so i think many are not even factoring it in.