Thoughts on level 60 scholar ability?

[Cynfael]

In today's Q&A, this came up:

Q22. I don't understand the benefit of absorbing your fairy with scholar’s Dissipation. Could you tell us how to use this?

A22. This is mainly to recover Aetherflow stacks. This isn't something we envisioned to be used frequently. Instead it is an ability that can play a strong role in emergency situations.

Hopefully they will still consider adjustments after they check their metrics and likely find that "not frequently" really means "almost never" in this case.

If I want an ability of highly questionable usefulness that is likely to leave me in a worse position than I was in prior activating it, I'll definitely hit this one.

[ckc22]

Hopefully they will still consider adjustments after they check their metrics and likely find that "not frequently" really means "almost never" in this case.

If I want an ability of highly questionable usefulness that is likely to leave me in a worse position than I was in prior activating it, I'll definitely hit this one.

It's useless because if you need it your group is already screwed.

I'd like to see something like:
Dissipation: Orders pet away. No healing potency buff. Simultaneously applies buff and debuff:
Buff: Aetherflow abilities do not consume aether stacks for 15s (maybe 10?)
Debuff: Fairy cannot be resummoned for 30s
CD: 180s --> 300s

This would still be an emergency button, but at least you could use it without having to use its stated purpose (aetherflow stacks) to get enough MP back to justify getting rid of your fairy.