Quote Originally Posted by FoxCh40s View Post
I love that you have an opinion, it's wrong, but its nice.

It doesnt even remotely play how it use to.

There's no dual casting your and fairies ability at the same time, no bane, no slow, no malady, no glorious burst AoE with DoT.

Without Quickened Aetherflow, Dissipate had gone right back to being what it used to be, pointless and counter productive other than pushing extra dps.

I'm sorry, I dont like to sound mean, but I just had to put my two cents in there my dude.
I love that you disagree, it's wrong but it's nice.

Just because the dps is simplified does not mean the healing aspect is fundamentally the same. It's still has a heavy emphasis on using cooldown and resource management via your faerie and aetherflow stacks. It still emphasizes damage mitigation over raw potency on your gcd healing. It still has the loop of feeding your aetherflow into fae guage for healing later.

If anything the loss of extreme micromanagement and Quickened Aetherflow was a necessary evil to bring sch back down to a reasonable level. What made it so powerful in previous expansions was the sheer amount of healing it could generate without loosing damage.

While forcing ogcd slots to command your fairy can feel clunky at times, it also takes away that raw power scholar had, it forces scholar take a damage penalty for accessing it's free ogcd healing. (Before you bring up "But AST" Ast is balanced around the fact its damage numbers are lower and that it has damage buffs it needs to juggle to make up the difference) As for Quickened Aetherflow, yeah I do miss it sometimes. But it was too powerful. It more or trivialized the use of Aetherflow by how much more frequently it gave you access to Aetherflow. As fun as it was, it ultimately took away from the intended drawback of Aetherflow, the restrictive number of uses per minute. I find that Recitation is a much more interesting tool for managing Aetherflow due to its sheer versatility in this regard.