Unpopular Opinion: Your failure to understand Energy Drain's Usage

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They reduced Energy Drain's damage to 100 back in Shb in order to make Ruin II + ED almost dps neutral with Broil spam. Now that all healers get a free oGCD, it's about time for Energy Drain's removal. I say this because of two reasons, playing as SCH and with SCH.

As SCH:
Dissipation. Dissipation should be something of an emergency button, one that you press when you've screwed up your resource management so you can recover. When Energy Drain becomes a dps positive however, you are severely pressured into eating your fairy for a quarter of every fight. This really sucks.

With SCH:
It is very, *very* apparent when they're dumping everything into Energy Drain. It's not bad at the start of a fight, but later on, when you hardly ever see Sacred Soil, it becomes readily apparent that your SCH co-healer is thinking that they're in some perfect play scenario where both healers can space out their other heals properly. Also, if your SCH is using Dissipation on cooldown, they are literally foisting more healing responsibilities onto you unless they spend all 3 aetherflow stacks on Lustrate. It's just an incredibly toxic environment that's not good for the game.

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They reduced Energy Drain's damage to 100 back in Shb in order to make Ruin II + ED almost dps neutral with Broil spam. Now that all healers get a free oGCD, it's about time for Energy Drain's removal. I say this because of two reasons, playing as SCH and with SCH.

As SCH:
Dissipation. Dissipation should be something of an emergency button, one that you press when you've screwed up your resource management so you can recover. When Energy Drain becomes a dps positive however, you are severely pressured into eating your fairy for a quarter of every fight. This really sucks.

With SCH:
It is very, *very* apparent when they're dumping everything into Energy Drain. It's not bad at the start of a fight, but later on, when you hardly ever see Sacred Soil, it becomes readily apparent that your SCH co-healer is thinking that they're in some perfect play scenario where both healers can space out their other heals properly. Also, if your SCH is using Dissipation on cooldown, they are literally foisting more healing responsibilities onto you unless they spend all 3 aetherflow stacks on Lustrate. It's just an incredibly toxic environment that's not good for the game.

As SCH: If Disipation is causing you issue then the problem isnt scholar kit, it's your understanding of how to pilot scholar as a class.

With SCH: Yes, a bad scholar who dumps all aetherflow in to ED is griefing, but it all that shows is a player's need to grow in knowledge and experience. Not a need for crippling changes to the class.