What is your favorite and least favorite combat CD skill in the game?

[Ilenya]

Wait... Are you sure? I'm reading the tooltip rn and it says "increase healing potency for all party member". There's nothing pointing that it only restricts the buff to healing abilities.

Fey Illumination/Seraphic Illumination Effect: Increases healing magic potency of all nearby party members by 10%, while reducing magic damage taken by all nearby party members by 5%
Orders your faerie away while granting you a full Aetherflow stack. Also increases healing magic potency by 20%.

Nope. They both specify "Healing Magic" which all the Aetherflow skills we have don't count, and never have.

Fey Illumination at least gives the minor magic damage reduction, but Dissipation just...Does not work with SCHs. You can't gain any of your Fae Gauge when the faerie is gone, so all those extra Aetherflow are wasted in that regards.

[Raikai]

Nope. They both specify "Healing Magic" which all the Aetherflow skills we have don't count, and never have.

Wow. Healer is not my main role, but I do have SCH to heal now and then casually, for many years, and I never realized that Aetherflow skills didn't count as "Healing Magic".

[Ilenya]

Wow. Healer is not my main role, but I do have SCH to heal now and then casually, for many years, and I never realized that Aetherflow skills didn't count as "Healing Magic".

They are specifically "Healing Abilities" It's weird, and really Scholar is the only job so hard-shafted by it. You'll notice that SCH don't get the healing magic potency from their level 80 skill like AST and WHM do as well.

[Raikai]

They are specifically "Healing Abilities" It's weird, and really Scholar is the only job so hard-shafted by it. You'll notice that SCH don't get the healing magic potency from their level 80 skill like AST and WHM do as well.

I... just wanted them to be clearer regarding the functionality, because nothing in the tooltip from the Fey Illumination makes that difference obvious, unless I'm missing a vital reading somewhere else. Everything just says Cure Potency.

[Maltothoris]

Wow. Healer is not my main role, but I do have SCH to heal now and then casually, for many years, and I never realized that Aetherflow skills didn't count as "Healing Magic".

because nothing in the tooltip from the Fey Illumination makes that difference obvious

I remember the few times back in Heavensward when Whm Divine seal could boost the healing of Assize and Asylum and they had to do a hotfix to make sure that was not the case. They do not want healing buffs to ogcds.

Back to the topic at hand, favorite cd would probably be Confiteor. In terms of least favorite, probably Inner Chaos as its just a reskinned Inner Beast.

Edit: For that part it's the magic. Ogcds are not considered magic, as strange as that sounds and if you notice, stuff like aldo and physick are considered spells.