Quote Originally Posted by SayuyuYuyu View Post
Even the selling points you've listed are barely good. I've yet to actually have mana problems on SCH due to how much healing I can now do with oGCDs.

Also what's the problem with Dissipation?
Using it before Recitation adds even more value to an ability that has heaps of value, and having 3 extra Aetherflow to spend on whatever you need is nice too. The cherry on top is that Fairys now resummon themselves.
The problem with Dissipation is that it locks the fairy and all its abilities out for 30 seconds for a 20% buff to adloquium and succor, as the buff does not effect any ability that consumes Aetherflow stacks. Additionally the extra aetherflow stacks are largely superfluous because using them alongside the cooldowns of aetherflow abilities largely relegates two of them into additional lustrates, and energy drain no longer exists to afford a dump for them. Fairy meter, while not the most desired resource, is also not accumulated while the fairy is away even if you use the extra aether charges.

Thus in practice using it to buff a crit shield before deploy is typically its primary purpose, because otherwise its benefit only shows if you're actually having to spam-GCD heal a tank with adlo and physick, and even then it's very situational for the 20% healing buff to prove better than having the fairy out to embrace, and not at all better if Seraph's cooldown is available. And that's largely it. There is always the potential to pop it in an "OH CRAP" moment where triple lustrate may give you a clinch super-save, because those moments happen, but those are its role, and the cost of using it remains awkward and annoying.

That's not to say it isn't useful, because Dissipation was always great to have at the end of damage-AoE-spam phases like Brute Justice's fire spin, Omega's final phase, and Ultima's last charge attack. It's always been great for beefing up Succor at the tail end of a fight, but more often than not its primary use was additional energy drains, and with that gone, it's just become even more niche due to its weaknesses.