Scholar Rework Idea

[Absurdity]

I have a simple and great fix for Energy Drain.
Instead of costing Aetherflow stack, it should cost Fairy gauge.

So people will use all their Aetherflow stacks on healing (which should please Yoshida).
Fairy Gauge will become very useful (adjust Fey Blessing and Aetherpact to give them more weight to be competitive with Energy Drain).
SCH is rewarded by using his heal giving him an access to more dps.
Dissipation will become also more rewarding to use.

Note : Fairy gauge will appear at the same level as Energy Drain then.

There is a very small problem with that design. If ED costs fairy gauge instead of aetherflow then you won't actually have anything to spend said aetherflow on until level 50 and therefore nothing to generate fairy gauge.

[Brandedblade]

So what the devs want is for people to use Aetherflow to heal, but with how the damage patterns are designed it's inevitable that in most content that you'll need a way to dump excess aetherflow and thus not need to heal fully with it? I get loving it from the perspective of "it's fun to trade off healing for damage" because I agree that is fun, in a game with more demand thrown on their healers that's actually an engaging risk vs reward mechanic, but this isn't that kind of game. "trade off healing for damage" will always inevitably devolve into "rarely heal always damage" with how scripted fights are. At this point they might as well scrap the mechanic since the devs are never going to be happy with it because of the dissonance that exists between players and the devs.

[Ceasaria]

There is a very small problem with that design. If ED costs fairy gauge instead of aetherflow then you won't actually have anything to spend said aetherflow on until level 50 and therefore nothing to generate fairy gauge.

Hmm, Lustrate ?

If this change happens, the potency of some healing actions should be lowered to compensate.

[Absurdity]

Hmm, Lustrate ?

If this change happens, the potency of some healing actions should be lowered to compensate.

Yeah, nevermind. I forgot that they changed all 3 skills, ED, AF and Lustrate to level 45 now.