Let's talk about Dissipation

[Cynfael]

MAYBE, in the very situational case that the Fairy is about to die for whatever reason?

Actually you can cast Dissipation to consume your fairy's corpse if she dies and hasn't fully vanished yet.

[Arkenne]

You can't kill a dead fairy

:/

Well, at least it IS possible if its about to die, so long you vanish her before she dies, right? Do you guys find any use for it in such a situation?

Edit: posted another, read this one wrong.

[Arkenne]

You CAN kill a dead fairy

oh whops, I read it upsidedown...

But same question, do you guys find it any use in this situation??

[Tumgar]

I disagree that it is virtually useless. I use dissipation way more than I ever used an ability like benediction when I played WHM. It is situation but far from useless or virtually useless. People just haven't played with it enough to realize its capabilities or you get the people that say they are taking it off their horbar and dont even give it a chance.

[Cynfael]

oh whops, I read it upsidedown...

But same question, do you guys find it any use in this situation??

No. The fairy should rarely ever die unless the tank is going nuts and getting her cleaved by running in circles around her. Even if she does die and you Dissipate before she disappears on her own, you're in the same situation as when you would otherwise use Dissipation: no fairy heals/buffs/cleanse, a 20% healing buff that isn't really necessary to begin with and doesn't function on our Aetherflow heals, and you still need to drag her back up after Dissipation wears off.

[Cynfael]

I disagree that it is virtually useless. I use dissipation way more than I ever used an ability like benediction when I played WHM. It is situation but far from useless or virtually useless. People just haven't played with it enough to realize its capabilities or you get the people that say they are taking it off their horbar and dont even give it a chance.

It's still on my hotbar, and I am trying to give it a chance, but I haven't yet encountered a situation where I thought to myself "Wow, that was actually worth using."

Outside of having more Energy Drains for a DPS opener, I haven't found any significant advantage to using this skill. Maybe raids will surprise me, but I expect not.

Edit: If you have suggestions as to what its capabilities are, please share. Honestly curious to see if anyone has discovered a genuine use for this aside from the aforementioned ED spam.

[Tumgar]

The best use for 3 aetherflow stacks you can think of it for 3 energy drains used on an opener? That's not taking into consideration the extra % healing that we get

[Cynfael]

The best use for 3 aetherflow stacks you can think of it for 3 energy drains used on an opener? That's not taking into consideration the extra % healing that we get

The extra healing power is both unnecessary and countered by the loss of your healing buddy with her own GCD. If I really wanted +20% healing power for a short time, I'd summon Eos instead of Selene and buff myself along with the fairy and my co-healer, and get to keep my fairy out on top of it.

Dissipation could contribute to a strong mitigation effort to help a raid survive a mechanic that SHOULD kill them at their current ilvl/HP, but that's both a very situational use and one that disappears as players progress.

Edit: Speaking specifically of the extra Aetherflow stacks, what else am I going to use them for? I don't need that much Lustrate spam, and Indom has a 30 second CD (as does Soil, not that it's particularly useful outside of raid mechanic mitigation, anyway).

[Tumgar]

The extra healing power is both unnecessary and countered by the loss of your healing buddy with her own GCD. If I really wanted +20% healing power for a short time, I'd summon Eos instead of Selene and buff myself along with the fairy and my co-healer, and get to keep my fairy out on top of it.

Dissipation could contribute to a strong mitigation effort to help a raid survive a mechanic that SHOULD kill them at their current ilvl/HP, but that's both a very situational use and one that disappears as players progress.

Edit: Speaking specifically of the extra Aetherflow stacks, what else am I going to use them for? I don't need that much Lustrate spam, and Indom has a 30 second CD (as does Soil, not that it's particularly useful outside of raid mechanic mitigation, anyway).

So consider it a free 3 aetherflow stacks then. That's not that bad of an ability to me

[Ghishlain]

Just adding my two cents - now that it's unofficially been confirmed that the healing potency increases aren't meant to work collaboratively with ability heals, this ability needs some serious buffs to make it more useful.

As it stands right now, the only use I can still think of using it is if you need a serious eHP boost to take a raid wide damage mechanic equivalent to Teraflare in the face in Alex.