Quote Originally Posted by Billythepancake View Post
It requires multi tasking in the same vein that placement requires multitasking, yes, pressing the button isn't as hard as placing fairy, that much I can agree on, but remembering to do it while casting was still multi tasking.
What are you talking about? You are really reaching for this multitasking argument. What happens is that you decide to use Whispering Dawn. Before, you'd press the button whenever. Now you have to find or create a weave slot. It is no longer borderline OP and requires significantly more thought on your part.

Quote Originally Posted by Billythepancake View Post
I don't know how MP is harder for you, but it's the same to me, use lucid when your MP is about 60-70%, then you pretty much just use it on CD. It's a management button, which I'm fine with, but that's the exact issues you brought up with shadowflare, so if it's okay for lucid, why is it a problem for my DPS abilities.
MP is harder now because misuse of Lucid Dreaming is significantly more punishing. However, MP is and has always been a non-issue if you used your MP regen tools properly.

Quote Originally Posted by Billythepancake View Post
Yes, you can argue that Miasma, shadow flare, bane, quickened aetherflow, fairy abilities off of GCDs and oGCDs, miasma II,being able to use aetherflow out of combat, and having 2 distinct fairies with their own movesets, were all small things, but all those small things add up. It's like a 5 dollar bill, sure, losing 1 5 dollar bill isn't a big deal, but you lose ten 5 dollar bills? Suddenly that's a lot of money down the drain. It especially hurts me in savage content not having all these things, because I loved having all this to juggle on top of everything else to do, because I felt like I could always improve. on final omega, with all the healing I had to do on Hello World, it wasn't uncommon for me to drop miasma, and it sucked when I noticed, BUT, it made me want to get better, because I had to tell myself "you HAVE to remember to watch for this", same with fairy abilities, for shadow flare, for everything else I just listed, it all adds up, I could've lived if they removed 1 of those things, maybe 2, but all those at once? that's too much. Yes, I'm glad to have ED back, but that wasn't all the 5 dollar bills SE took from me.
Nice straw-man you have there.