Quote Originally Posted by Billythepancake View Post
Choosing for your main resource to be between heals and dps is what makes healers, and more specifically scholar, work so well, imo. Theres a reason people were begging to have it back, because SCH didnt feel complete without it (still doesnt feel complete yet, but it feels better) it gives off a risk/reward system, it gives a hierarchy to your heals instead of just spending whatever whenever, and it raises the skill ceiling. Good scholars will make the best out of their resources, overhealing as little as possible and maximizing dps, while scholars not at the same skill level will end up spending more aetherflow on healing.
Thats exactly why it was so terrible to balance. There will never be a meta where SCH isn't King. It will always have a skill ceiling too difficult to balance. Its a gameplay style vs Balance sort of thing.

The rouse clone suggestion, was just a starting point, but I completely understand. It would need to outweigh lustrate at a longer duration and just generally be better.