Question to healers

[Ashkendor]

Going further from what Kaurie said(She's also correct about pet potency nerf from 50 to 60), who uses Eos in Expert? xD Selene is your go to for speed runs and she handles the damage like a champ on her own (cool downs from a decent tank be willing.) In the new Dungeons she's also able to silence Banish III from the light sprites and other random trash mobs as well as a free AOE esuna, saving you a fair amount of GCDs that would have been spent healing or an aetherflow towards Indom instead of Energy Drain.

I do. The DPS increase from Fey Wind can be small but decent in 8 man content; in 4 man content it's negligible. I've found Silent Dusk to be very slow and unreliable unless you leave the fairy on Sic, in which case she'll blow it on the first cast bar she sees (whether it's affected by silence or not) because the AI isn't very bright about that kind of thing. Banish III is something your melee or tank should be stunning anyway if the Light Sprite even lives that long. If worst comes to worst, Fey Covenant reduces the amount of damage you take from it as does Virus. The AoE Leeches can be nice but it's extremely situational. There are very few times when I'd be removing a debuff from more than one person at a time anyway. Selene has her uses, but overall I find Eos lets me stay in Cleric Stance more reliably even when the tank is doing enormous pulls or the party is taking AoE damage. I don't need to blow a stack on Indom when I can preemptively have FI + WD up and let the regen effect heal them back up.

This mentality has gotten to the point where I wouldn't be sorry to see the fairies' Cure potency cut by half whenever a SCH is in Cleric Stance. If you want to DPS full time, switch over to SMN.

I don't get what the issue is. If I can do 850 DPS over the course of a dungeon and still keep the party healthy, what's the problem?