Just remove the fairy already.

[Doozer]

I feel like a lot of your points against the fairy are actually more of a boon than a burden. Not having any HP or being attackable by enemies is good. There will at least be someone healing. Insta-cast healing is always good. Again, so at least someone is healing at all times. And the oGCD thing has never really been disruptive for any other job I've played, so I don't really see how that's such a huge issue.

Just wait until ShB is out and play it. You'll get over it quickly.

[Jollyy5]

I second the OP, I liked that fairy as it was and it added to the uniqueness of Scholar.

Then they just went and made the fairy a glorified oGCD heal, and at this point it might as well not even be there anymore.

[Mimilu]

Honestly, I've been thinking the same thing... >w>()
Unless they're going to give us an actual reason to switch Eos or Selene (which probably wouldn't happen until 6.0), they could of easily just turned Fairies into a Trait that still has the fairy follow us, replace the summon buttons with a Place and Heel/Come Back button, and then make Fairy Glamour a thing for those who want Selene instead of Eos.
While SMN's egi got a similar treatment, the Egi at least are designed for different uses (Ifrit is Single-Target, Garuda is now AoE, and Titan is for solo-content and downtime).

[LeoLupinos]

Stop asking for simplification. The fairy is what it is, and it's needed and working fine the way as it is. The unneeded things were already removed, and that's enough.

[Mimilu]

Stop asking for simplification. The fairy is what it is, and it's needed and working fine the way as it is. The unneeded things were already removed, and that's enough.

I don't think the OP is asking for a simplification, I think they're pointing out the problem that fairies have been overly simplified in 5.0. :B

[nalol]

the only advantage and flaw of faery is your heals/buffs don't come from u .. but another point.

and that's something no other healer has (except whm with cure 3)

it's great to be on a corner and still AoE regen party at center or arena. It's also a bummer when u cast your AoE regen thinking your faery follows u .. just to realise only 1 ally gets it .

but I don't know if it's lazy design but u can clearly see they struggle to balance healer ... and their way of balancing is to make us a bit too similar ..



and I don't get why faeries didn't get same treatment as smn egis .. 2 faeries with 2 different uses and change the cast time as the SN have. maybe one more focused on ST healing and one on group ... and we would have to change faery during fight depending on what we need. Would have been better to place faery at the center of our healing rotation. But they kind of move away from that. And even the angel feel meh .. especially when u see the base abilities are exactly the same as Eos.

maybe what they could have done is a more support faery with limited heals and then a buff that changes faery into a more healing intensive pet for a short duration.

there are so much stuff u could do with the faery :/

[EaMett]

I like the lore and identity aspect of the fairy. I agree the changes they made mean they could just remove her. If it weren't for the tiny bit of micromanagement we have left (aka: placing her so her heals hit people) I'd say begone with her.

[Brandedblade]

The fairy is core to the sch's identity, that being said it still has the advantage of being able to place it and control its range. It's not going anywhere.

[Arrhin]

This whole simplification thing is really startin to itch me in the underpants. Why in hells did they have to even touch her, she was fine, SMN pets were fine. I mean I get that there was an issue with healers bein green dps, but wow, did they have to gut SCH so? You had one job SE, fix WHM...not rek the other two. Anyone havin pet issues was either lazy, or not paying attention. NOW, havin had my little rant, I will remain cautiously optimistic that SCH will still be fun, just different. If it's not I'll go to one of the other two, if that one suks, then the next one (Typically I really take 'main class' serious, optimize to the exclusion of all else). If that one suks then I guess I'll have to tank or something *sigh*

(edit) Just to add for clarity, it's my firm belief that not every class/job has to be perfect, there will and should be skills of limited general use, there should be disadvantages, there should be content that favours one type of healer/dps/tank over another. If it wasn't so, we'd just get 3 choices "Healer", "Tank", "DPS". Makin em look different doesn't change that, and that's where we are heading, a bunch of different classes that just do the same damn 3 things, but look different doin it..

(edit again) cats cannae count...3 instead of 4 <.<

[Allegor]

I mean, if anything, they made having two fairies entirely redundant. Selene is now just an egi glamour in every way, shape, and form. Great job! /s