Dissipate overpowered?

[Cynfael]

You cannot click off Dissipation; you are locked out of resummoning for 30 seconds.

This ability simply isn't good. I can only imagine that the devs conceived this as a sort of WHM mode for SCHs, but the loss of the fairy combined with the necessity of blowing the MP and usually a SC to resummon it make it more hassle than it's worth.

I don't need more Aetherflow stacks with which to healbomb people; I'd almost always rather have a second source of heals and a cleanse that's AoE and not tied to my GCD. If I want a 20% healing buff, I'll summon Eos.

[Ghishlain]

You cannot click off Dissipation; you are locked out of resummoning for 30 seconds.

Thanks for the answer/ One more mystery solved in my head.

Even how it is now, it's not like it's bad. At worst it gives you an extra 3 Lustrates which will more than make up for the dead fairy for 30 seconds. It's sacrifice for situation. If you need heavy healing at the moment then 3 extra Lustrates on top of Emergency Tactics Adlo is going to outheal just you and your fairy, so if you know the damage is just going to be for the phase you can cover it and tell the other healer to start using their big heals to cover for the lost fairy.

Still it could be a little bit better to give it some more appeal, and for that we'll have to wait to see what changes come and if you can click off the buff.

I think it could use a small buff, such as having it affect both healing and attack power since you're locked out for 30 seconds.

To me, Dissipation has always been about "How much AoE heal can I throw out on the fly?" and with Emergency Tactics + Succor into Indomitably, that's 760 potency being through out in four seconds. If you then Adlo someone and pop Deployment Tactics, that's another 720 eHP being through out there. While there should never be a scenario where SCH needs to solo heal and dig out and protect your entire party at once, it can happen.

Alternatively, I'd be happy if they changed it so you CAN click off the buff and resummon the Fairy. I don't think it'd be broken because then you'd be spending a lot of MP + swiftcast for the trade off of some healing power and 3 Aetherflow stacks.

[EDIT]

At this time, the only real scenario where I can think of where you may need to use Dissipation is if you needed to have the eHP to survive something in the vein of Terraflare at a low ilvl within Alex Savage. Fey Convenant + Fey Illumination + Dissipation into Adlo on a Convalescence'd WAR then pop Deployment Tactics for maximum HP buffer.