Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
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I agree with you overall but I however do think Aetherflux is an interesting mechanic on SCH.
Unlike WHM/AST who have straight forward cd, SCH has rather low cd but they consome a ressource which you generate at a rate of 3 per 45sec. As a SMN your goal is to burn through these as fast as possible, as a SCH not really, (I mean, it could be depending on the situation but in general you don't burn your stack as soon as you press Aetherflux)

For the SMN a passive generation of 1stack every 20sec wouldn't change a damn thing dps wise,you're right, for SCH it would slightly change the dynamic tho.

For instance, if you just used Aetherflux and you burned through your 3 stacks because reasons, you have to wait the entire CD before having them back but here we're talking about healing and not just dps optimisation.
So if you badly need a stack in 20sec to heal that nasty AoE, well too bad, you won't get to use any of those skills for the next 40sec.
Which is why I consider the Aetherflux mechanic to be interesting on SCH. it does require management, you don't necearly want to burn through them ASAP (unlike you do a speed run I guess)