Suggestion: Give SCH an aoe heal (Medicia/Helios)

[RyuDragnier]

Stop pretending you don't have Succor, Indom, Emergency Tactics, and an auto healer, and proactively heal the party!

Do Susano EX as a SCH and get to the raid wide damage, with one healer down because the last jumprope failed, and the party at half health. A SCH can't heal all of that damage by themselves, especially if you have Whispering Dawn on cooldown. We need either another AoE heal, or a 1s cooldown on Indom like Lustrate so we can pop multiples in a row if need be.

[Enla]

Do Susano EX as a SCH and get to the raid wide damage, with one healer down because the last jumprope failed, and the party at half health. A SCH can't heal all of that damage by themselves, especially if you have Whispering Dawn on cooldown. We need either another AoE heal, or a 1s cooldown on Indom like Lustrate so we can pop multiples in a row if need be.

Not to mention that 'auto healer' is a buggy mess of an AI which often needs it have it's buttons spammed before they'll even deign to proc and whose potency was nerfed as far as I'm currently aware. Meaning we're often spending precious seconds fighting one of our necessary tools in the kit and thus unable to do anything else till the skill finally procs. It's also worse with Eos in my experience, and at present she's the preferred faerie for Extremes.

Frankly I'd be fine with our current skillset if they /just/ lowered the timer on Emergency Tactics and the cost of Succor. It would go a long way to solving most, though not all, issues SCH has with AOE healing.

[LegoTechnic]

The fairy is preemptive, and not reactionary. It has powerful tools but unreliable response time, so if Eos is on the field then you should use her in preparation for mechanics rather than in response to them. Indomitability, Lustrate, and Emergency Tactics are specifically for reactionary healing.

That being said if all your options are down and you need them to be up then either use Dissipation for stacks, or if that's not an option just prepare to go down with the ship. Single heal is hard if either you or your team is unprepared for it.

[Mikazuki_Aura]

... or you could - I don't know - teach them the fight so they can finish the story.
You're not meant to heal through tremendous raid-wide mistakes. Teach people mechanics and they'll eat for a lifetime.

Half of my macros are skills. The other half are pretyped tutorials in both Japanese and English I activate at the start of fights in which not knowing what happens will kill people.

[CrimRaiOh]

They could turn the dissipation aspect of dissipation to dumping your fay gauge in a single aoe heal relative to how much gauge you have. Keeping the fairy. Making it actually useful.

[Tinker]

Am I the only SCH who actually manually controls the fairy heals? There's no auto-healing for me. I've always enjoyed both the micro and the predictability in SCH.

The option to split your healing, or focus it on just one is incredibly powerful. In fact, most of my gripe with the recent changes is about SE's move to delegate the fairies to 'minions you can summon in dungeons' status.

They need to give back Sustain! Not only for us, but for the poor Summoners who can't keep their pets alive anymore.

They need to differentiate faeries more. eg; aetherpact on Eos will give a Collective Unconcious like effect and drain the gauge. Using it on Selene will drop a shadow-flare like pool and increase damage done to anything in it by 10%.

And most of all, they need to give us reasons to keep our fae friends alive. Maybe a slowly stacking buff to shield potency over time while Eos is active, and the same type of buff but to damage while Selene is active?