Quote Originally Posted by Riyshn View Post
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Also, "an emergency doesnt last 30sec" sounds like someone who never healed A2S. ...or A7S. ...or A8S. A12S. O3S. The first minute and a half of O8S-God. There have been plenty of fights that have space to make use of the whole duration of the healing buff.
re: your earlier reply, I do agree that Dissipation has never been better than its current version. It's mostly thanks to changes to other abilities (summon, aetherflow CD reduction), but... to me, "+3 stacks, +20% succor/adlo/physic, -15s flow CD" is a hard sell when the downside is "-2500 potency worth of embraces, no WD / covenant / illumination / fey onions for 30s, -1200 MP and 3s cast time when it ends." Both sides of this equation have been buffed considerably till now, it is true. I just think it's, at best, a mediocre bonus, and at worst, capable of completely ruining my pre-planned fairy CD usages. Those pre-planned uses are why I think the fights you mentioned aren't the best examples- I sure as heck will have a lot more emergencies to clean up vs God Kefka if I use it around when I deploy adlos. (I deploy pre-pull for a free LB bar on the first ultima, then on every Forsaken after the first - covenant, SS, and succor are all I need for LoJ since the rest of my party is helping as well.)



I think the best possible use of Dissipation is for huge deployment crit shields, like you mentioned. I'd rather have a crit rate bonus for my heals than a potency bonus, though. I mean, I don't want it to be something you just throw out when it's on cooldown (like Rouse now that it doesn't buff any cooldowns - I don't think scholar needs anything else like that), but hey, maybe once or twice in any given fight? Or... in any given year? (I've gone an entire year without using Dissipation before...) Honestly it's probably a lower priority to fix than lilies, since at leastDissipation doesn't hold part of your UI hostage, and it actually seems to do something sometimes.