Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
Aetherflow is the main mechanic of scholar and I use it all of the time. It's only considered fluff by people who are not using scholar properly. Making this change would make it impossible to use Lustrate 3-6 times in a row which is sometimes useful in big pulls even after you have stacked up all the regens. Aetherflow has a nice "flow" to it as well.
All it would require, is to rework Dissipation into giving Stacks instead of Aetherflow. Also, most of the time, you dont even need Aetherflow Skills in Dungeons anyway, only a bad SCH uses Aetherflow stacks in Dungeons for Healing purposes.

Using Adlo ocassionally and Healing everything with the Fairy is in my Book, the most optimal Gameplay SCH currently has. If Tank gets below half HP, just aetherpact him and attack enemies with enerydrain for a longer duration.

Also, the lone fact that SCH has garbage like lustrate and indomitability and still relies heavily on it in difficult content, only shows that Squeenix cant even execute their own desire to create the concept called Barrier Healers.