Sch change makes me really upset and makes me think I might give up being a healer.

[Brandedblade]

I always use selene because her actions are so much more useful than eos'. I don't need healing regen. I want my ability to make my team's recast/skill timers go faster so they can use their actions more quickly. I don't want to lose my selene's ability to esuna the whole party at once. That's a really useful skill. ALSO why are they taking away my ability to choose who my fairy heals???

I've spent a lot of time learning to be able to manage my fairy and do my other healing skills at the same time. It's why playing scholar is so fun. But.. they are removing being able to even choose what the fairy does. It's completely ruining the point of having the fairy. Scholar's heals were never as impressive as white mage, since they are geared for preventing damage to make up the difference, so you had to think preemptively. And the fact that you could direct your fairy to heal a specific party member made all the difference. Plus selene had the ability to silence a target.

First off. Selene...isnt as great as you think she is. Her haste buff is only about an extra HALF of a gcd each minute. While I've had a few moments where I've been able to land her silence, the fact its tied to a pet delay makes it feel spotty compared to a ranged or tank ogcd interrupt. Fey Caress is one of those skills that are fantastic when you can use it, but useless in every other case, especially now that esuna is tied to a role action.

Eos' extra healing and (albeit magic only) mitigation, on the other hand, is what allows you to deal more damage and lean more of your healing onto your pet. Free healing= less healing you have to do = more damage you can deal.

And yes, you will still be able to have some level of control over your fairy come shadowbringers. You can still place her on the tanks butt to make her ai favor them due to her going by proximity when selecting a target. And even then, it's kinda nerfed now. And if you really really need to have her heal someone use Aetherpact and make her tether to the person. The only difference now is you have to do an off global command to make her do stuff.

It's a shame then, I actually wouldnt mind keeping Selene's silence with this pet rework since it would be much much more reliable to utilize. It also would've given sch something else unique in being the only healer who can do interrupts.