Do you want healers to be reworked from the ground up?

[Veis_Alveare]

I have to agree here.
I play with controller. There are enough hotbar slots, but I'm still never really happy with my SCH hotbars, because unlike AST and WHM it has so many different situational skills. They could easily combine some of them. And like you say, Emergency Tactics is really clunky to use and not really very emergency-like - you probably have to clip your GCD (or lose DPS by casting Ruin II) and then use another GCD to trigger its effect. It would be simpler just to have a stronger heal on the same CD or so. Dissipation is so clunky as well with the pet ghosting, so just remove it and give Emergency Tactics its effect minus the faerie despawn, maybe a bit different and on a long CD of course. That would be much more like an ability for an emergency. It has to be tweaked a little more though not to end up as a DPS CD... Your idea of just making it a healing buff seems much easier. So maybe give us a free AF heal during its duration? Don't know, just some ideas here.

I really think as they try to move away from the shield/HoT dichotomy we should probably toss Deployment and Emergency tactics, just because SCH having abilities to deliberately interact with it's shields will have people still thinking of it as a shield healer even though that hasn't been it's identity for a long time.

Emergency Tactics could just be an instant aoe GCD heal on a fairly short CD that is the same healing potency as ET+Succor right now with a similar MP cost. A tiny bit like Rapture but still distinct in the case of it being on a CD (so not spammable) and with a hefty MP cost to compensate for it's greater healing. It'd be handy and used by less experienced SCHs much more.

Deployment is a bit trickier but at the end of the day it's really just a way to get a party-wide shield so rather than the clunk of spreading a shield from a party member it could just become a long CD AoE shield emanating from the target.

Dissipation is actually nice as it is imo, the instant fairy respawn is a nice QoL. It can save you in a lot of scenarios since even if you spend them all on lustrates for a big pull a save is a save. It's also let me resolve living dead solo before. I like it's duality as both a dps CD and a potential emergency healing button. If people wanted to make it safer I could see granting a Synastry-style buff during the duration so that when the SCH heals whoever they were targeting when they popped dissipation they get an extra shield effect or mitigation or something.

[AnotherPerson]

I really think as they try to move away from the shield/HoT dichotomy we should probably toss Deployment and Emergency tactics, just because SCH having abilities to deliberately interact with it's shields will have people still thinking of it as a shield healer even though that hasn't been it's identity for a long time.

Emergency Tactics could just be an instant aoe GCD heal on a fairly short CD that is the same healing potency as ET+Succor right now with a similar MP cost. A tiny bit like Rapture but still distinct in the case of it being on a CD (so not spammable) and with a hefty MP cost to compensate for it's greater healing. It'd be handy and used by less experienced SCHs much more.

People also use ET Adlo too. ET changing to an AoE shield doesn't replace ET Adlo, which is pretty useful when SCH is forced to Adlo spam because all the other healing skills are on CD to keep the tank alive and one of the adlos crit.

Maybe I don't remember it right, but if you have Dissipation activated, don't the Aetherflow actions not give no faerie gauge during it?
The faerie gauge isn't really great, but that's just another flaw of SCH gameplay.
Either way, I don't really like Dissipation because it doesn't have good synergy with the other SCH mechanics, and of course because of the faerie ghosting issues and how clunky it is to use.

When dissipation is activated, Aetherflow actions give no faerie gauge. While Dissipation certainly gotten better since it resummons the faerie immediately when the duration is expired, Faerie gauge skills and regular faerie skills are also not usable during dissipation which is a huge demerit depending on how Dissipation is used because if Dissipation is used for an unexpected emergency healing situation, SCH essentially gimped the rest of their healing ability for the next 30 seconds to prevent the incoming 5 second wipe and only has adlo/succor (heavy MP expensive spells) in order to try to recover from the situation after. This pretty much locks Dissipation into a DPS skill as SCH gets more healing tools via the faerie since using it would actually be hurting their healing output in the long run while the faerie is gone instead of helping it.

[Veis_Alveare]

People also use ET Adlo too. ET changing to an AoE shield doesn't replace ET Adlo, which is pretty useful when SCH is forced to Adlo spam because all the other healing skills are on CD to keep the tank alive and one of the adlos crit.

You don't really need ET adlo though. The only situations that will really force ST healing like that are resolving LD solo (fairly infrequent and technically doable with Physic) and large trash pulls with poor mitigation/dps where you've been reduced to GCD heal spam. In the latter you might ET Adlo once but the general rule of thumb is to alternate Physic and Adlo.