SCH need buffs

[Brandedblade]

This is a somewhat saner suggestion. But it means single-weaving an ED is no longer a DPS gain. So if there's no healing to be done (solo content anyone?), you'll be spamming Broil + Biolysis until you rightfully ragequit to another job. Even WHM (Assize, PoM) and AST (cards) wouldn't reach a boredom level this bad.

No, you would still use ED to dump excess stacks in this situation. All reducing ED's potency would do is lower the opportunity cost of aetherflow heals and make them more appealing while still keeping its role as an aetherflow dump. Theres also the element of combining it with Ruin II for movement scenarios to offset the damage loss of Ruin II.

[LariaKirin]

No, you would still use ED to dump excess stacks in this situation. All reducing ED's potency would do is lower the opportunity cost of aetherflow heals and make them more appealing while still keeping its role as an aetherflow dump. Theres also the element of combining it with Ruin II for movement scenarios to offset the damage loss of Ruin II.

More appealing than what? Cost-neutral sounds nice, but it's just a dps nerf, nothing more.

Because:
Within SCH, you'll prefer fairy heals all the way down to ED 0 or until you actually need AF heals.

With AST, nothing changes.

With WHM, Afflatus still has priority over ED 80.
Even if you don't go lower, the 5 potency difference in loss between Afflatus and ED is such a nothingburger that you completely eliminate any form of priority between WHM and SCH.

Personally, I'd look more towards fairy gauge interactions when it comes to improving SCH.

[Volkaj]

No, you would still use ED to dump excess stacks in this situation. All reducing ED's potency would do is lower the opportunity cost of aetherflow heals and make them more appealing while still keeping its role as an aetherflow dump. Theres also the element of combining it with Ruin II for movement scenarios to offset the damage loss of Ruin II.

Sorry if this is more of an individual question, but why do you always suggest keeping the SCH DPS toolkit as simplistic (boring) as possible?
I just can't fathom why you'd want this because even if we had the best designed, most synergic healing toolkit we'd still be stuck with DPSing 70%+ of the time.