One of the greatest reasons to use Dissipate is now a Moot Point.

[Deceptus]

I have always thought Dissipate was an underwhelming skill and the general retort in defending is is the 450 potency you could gain via 3 extra Energy Drains.

Thanks to the new nerf to Energy Drain, (Potency has been reduced from 150 to 100.) Dissipate becomes an even worse ability than before.

This is an ability that literally conflicts with the core job fantasy of Scholar (using your fairy) and the ability conflicts with every other job capstone ability.

At this point, I am really hoping for a SCH re-work in 6.0 but I won't hold my breath.

[Ceasaria]

It's like SE wants to remove Energy Drain again...

[Absurdity]

I just love the fact that nobody likes the mindless 1 button spam... and what does SE do?

[RyuDragnier]

I just love the fact that nobody likes the mindless 1 button spam... and what does SE do?

It's rather sad considering we had this same problem in SB, but back then we were able to micromanage the fairy during it so it wasn't boring.

[Ilenya]

You know, back when we were trying to get Energy Drain back I mentioned wondering if a replacement that was basically "Spend 1 Aetherflow to get 20 gauge" would be acceptable, because SE didn't seem to want us to have DPS options for our stacks.

This doesn't change my opinion of it one bit.

[Videra]

It's almost like there's a massive disconnect between the playerbase and dev team.

[Brandedblade]

ED is such a darned if you do darned if you don't skill in the SCH's toolkit. I agree with the general consensus that we should be healing with our Aetherflow over dumping it all into ED but we still need a skill like it for the sake of not wasting all of our stacks. I wouldn't mind more to do but at the same time this particular element of the sch toolkit is just going to always be problematic in a game like this.

[Maltothoris]

It's like SE wants to remove Energy Drain again...

Something from the patch note readings

On SCH's Energy drain adjustments for Patch 5.4
The dev team wants you to use Aetherflow more on healing. To compensate on the nerf they buffed the DoTs.

Granted my trust in their healing balance was lost in 3.4 but it always just hurts seeing this.

[Absurdity]

Ah yes, they want SCH to heal more with Aetherflow... would be all fine and dandy IF YOU ACTUALLY NEEDED THAT HEALING.
The absolute disconnect from the reality of how their own game works is staggering.

[Ilenya]

Something from the patch note readings

On SCH's Energy drain adjustments for Patch 5.4
The dev team wants you to use Aetherflow more on healing. To compensate on the nerf they buffed the DoTs.

Granted my trust in their healing balance was lost in 3.4 but it always just hurts seeing this.

Wait, that was actually SAID?