Gutted. Nerfed. Dead Fish playstyle. Little Brother Ast can do it better.

Leaving it to rot, until some decent changes are made to address AOE and to provide solid opportunities to use OGCD. Maybe 5.0 will offer fairy swapping mechanics and more pet skills/traits?

I'm alright with the removal of Virus. I'm alright with the Eos nerf.

The overall feel though is that SCH is going to have a hard time with mp management and have a very basic dps rotation. Our effecient, low costing, DOTS are gone. More nuking means less MP. Ironic how the class with the most DOTS suddenly became the healer with the worst DoTs. They had always been weaker, but their combine strengt helped to balance the other healer's nukes. Mp wise its going to be a mess. SCH will have to elect to Energy Drain every aetherflow stack we get and pray for the crappy proc, just to not be a reincarnated 4.0's WHM mana situation. Adlo's mp going up, without an increase in utility or cast time exasperates the issue. Fairy will have a very similar potency to regen and aspected benefic. She is going to heal 20% less embrace wise. Thats potentially, 20% more healing SCHs will have to do. SCH needed a decrease in MP costs for their healing spells, not an increase. The fact that Combust II had its mp cost reduced that makes me cynically laugh.