Question by a fledgling scholar

[Foxkid]

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Thank you for the warm welcome, and I tend to be pretty modest when playing, so I haven't run into any "rude" behavior as of late (aside from the final raids of the main story against the ultimate weapon where I got left behind for 60% of it and died 3 times as a result), and in all fairness, I kind of struggle to manage too many skills so I leave Eos and Selene on AI to act as an "off-healer" when I do need to focus on the tank and someone else has taken a fair bit of damage.

I do all in my power to utilize 2 sets of skills (1 more support oriented, the other holding damage and the fairies + rouse) so it'd be a bad show if I were to try and work with the pet bar as well without messing up.

I will definitely keep your name in mind if I have further scholar questions fellow Nymian.

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I've kind of avoided using macros as its a pretty foreign concept to me in all due fairness (I know they can help, but I crack under too much pressure at times to worry about trying to use it and target multiple people as needed). However, is Sacred Soil really 15%? The tooltip of it reads at a 10% mitigate (though I originally misread it as "your allies take 90% less damage" instead of it being a 10% mitigate), but I feel like I may use it a little liberally whenever the tank is taking the boss in general or when they pull all adds around them. I feel like it doesn't do much for them at times though so it makes me wonder if I just throw it down because of the casting animation for it.

I'm....well acquainted with Al + Physick spam, especially at starting scholar where it barely managed 300. But I'm honestly fairly content with how the AI handles Embrace, I'm just not a big fan that she can't target them for the full range of Physick or Alq, more along the lines of the range of Succor is what they feel like which makes my positioning questioned between being too close and too far though I avoid markers at all costs.

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I feel like I can only manage to deal sufficient dps only after throwing Alq and EFAE due to feeling like the time it takes to cast Bio II > Miasma > (when applicable) Miasma II > Bane and get back to my support bar because only then do I feel the tank can hold on long enough unless they're just taking far too much so I have to ignore damage in lieu of that pressing matter (especially because no one lasts long enough to make good use of swiftcast + resurrection to reign in the enmity).

For MP management, I tend to make extreme use of Energy Drain when I need it and Aetherflow when my gauge is empty (usually using the last one on ED for a pick me up) so it's never much of an issue unless I'm making too much use of Alq and Succor to keep someone up (worse so in apparent raids).

For Lustrate, I'm not seeing myself using it too much with the exception of a quick recovery if they hit triple digit health and for Lugstrasse(?) I use it mainly with physick, succor, and alq. I had picked up that it wouldn't affect the aetherflow abilities from lurking on the healer section at minimum, though I feel it would be nice if it did, but understand why it doesn't.

Excog sounds like an ability from another game I used to play and I would love to have it and Deployment Tactics, but that'll have to wait a fair few weeks to become a reality and I'll definitely take into consideration when I can manage it.

But as for broil and the fae meter, can you explain how those work? Is broil just a harder hitting Ruin and how exactly does the fairy gauge work as a system and what's it used for outside of aetherpact?