Quote Originally Posted by Sloprano View Post
Along with Eos and Selene restored to former glory, would like to see Seraph be a full summon aswell. What with Eos healing and buffing and Selene supporting, Seraph could be the full-time shielding fairy with her skills costing Gauge and not sharing cooldown with the other faerie's skills, but is put on a 2min cooldown if sent away.
I doubt they’d put Selene back exactly as she was, and I kind of don’t want them to, since she never saw much use since she got nerfed anyway. (Although I’d rather have her back as she was than not at all). But... if Eos was going to be the healing fairy, and Seraph was going to be the shielding fairy, I’d like Selene to be the buffing fairy again. Maybe make her into kind of what cleric stance used to be: turn off her embrace and instead give a passive damage buff to the healer (nerf current potencies so that she’d bring the SCH back up to where they are now if the extra damage is a problem). Combine that with the instant summon that summoners already have and swapping between fairies could become a dynamic thing (but still one you’d have to be careful of since you’d lose an embrace when the summoned fairy was changing due to animations).

Leave the aoe cleanse. That’s a great ability (although I agree it would be better suited to WHM, but in the meantime, why not?) and make her buff single target, but a little bit stronger. If they’re worried about buffing making certain combinations meta, a single target buff would be much easier to balance.

Also, this would make Selene the perfect fairy for solo. Buff your own damage, while also removing your auto-heal, forcing you to actually use your healing kit (which is currently pretty much useless in solo content). Plus, choices are wonderful, and being able to choose between better healing and better damage is something I always love in a healer (Presence of Mind is one of my favourite abilities in the game, because it can be used both offensively and defensively).

Ofc, they’d need to either nerf SCH’s base damage potencies to make up for the gain of both the passive and the acfive buff, or buff the other healers a bit, but like you I’m more worried about playstyle than potency, so I’ll leave the balancing to the devs. I’d rather they overnerf SCH potencies and make SCH fun again than leave it as is.

Also, I don’t mind Seraph sharing cooldowns with the other fairies, so long as she has unique abilities for those shared cooldowns, like the fairies used to.