SCH, Energy Drain, and 6.0

[GrimGale]

Hitting Energy Drain by accident would run the risk of using all your Aetherflow Stacks and possibly leave you with no healing resources at all. Although, Aetherflow could possibly function the same way as your proposed Energy Drain and then we wouldnt need Energy Drain at all. Aetherflow could be used to gain three stacks and MP as it is now with the added ability to do damage and restore more MP based on how many stacks you currently have. It could change to AetherFlood when it comes off cooldown and stacks are still waiting to be used. Its one less button and still a way to trade healing resources for damage with less risk since you're guaranteed to get stacks each time.

Or it could work in a similar way SMN aetherflow works: Remove the AF ability, and now Energy drain is an oGCD with 20s CD that gives 1 AF stacks and 10 Fairy gauge when used.

That, or if you want to have the three charges available, go with 1min CD and it gives 3 AF stacks and 30 Fairy Gauge.

Second would be a Fairy gauge generation Buff I guess but at least the it would untie damage and healing as a choice of using AF.

[inhaledcorn]

Or it could work in a similar way SMN aetherflow works: Remove the AF ability, and now Energy drain is an oGCD with 20s CD that gives 1 AF stacks and 10 Fairy gauge when used.

That, or if you want to have the three charges available, go with 1min CD and it gives 3 AF stacks and 30 Fairy Gauge.

Second would be a Fairy gauge generation Buff I guess but at least the it would untie damage and healing as a choice of using AF.

Personally, I prefer the idea that Aetherflow just grants Fairy Gauge charge since I'd rather they expand the Fairy Gauge to be a resource to use your fairy cooldowns. The current Aetherflow skills just gain charges since, imo, the Aetherflow mechanic is really hurting SCH's design now rather than helping it.