Quote Originally Posted by MorganG View Post
The fact that people view Dissipation as a DPS gain when it locks us out of our healing kit should be proof enough that it's a badly designed skill.

NO OTHER HEALER is locked out of half their kit for any of their abilities (let alone their "healing buff" abilities). It's an obvious coincidence how we're both last in DPS and HPS.

ED isn't good design, but having ED is better than not having a DPS sink for AF. If the dev team are set on their current course of action they need to give all healers DPS incentives to heal. Scholar choosing DPS or Heal is a flaw in the current design that can only be mended by either reverting SCH design or reverting encounter design.
I disagree. Don't get me wrong ShB SCH is a disaster, 100%, but the risk factor is not why it's a disaster. SB SCH was fun because Selene had a risk, Miasma II had a risk, bane had a risk, energy drain had a risk. SCH having a risk/reward gameplay isn't a bad thing, in fact I'd argue the worst part about dissipation is that there isn't enough risk tied to it. The fairy is so useless that getting rid of her for 20 seconds doesn't hurt you. I have never used dissipation and then regret using it because I couldn't use a fairy heal, because the only fairy heal worth using at this point is seraph, the rest, sure, have uses, but they don't have any sort of impact. The fairy should be more useful and actively make a difference so using dissipation has some sort of cost.

ED being tied to aetherflow is a great thing and nobody will ever convince me otherwise. It makes you think. You have to actually think "is this heal worth using, can I get away with using ED here" you are punished for being too greedy but you are rewarded for using your resources smartly. I'd argue aetherflow on SCH is better than on SMN because it actually has a purpose for SCH. SMN will never not spend aetherflow on fester, I don't even know why they have it, just give fester stacks that they need to dump instead of aetherflow and their gameplay would not change.

again, ShB SCH is a mess, but it's not because it has risk/reward design. It's because it's had too much stripped away from it because SE doesn't know how to balance healers in any other way.