The Aetherflow system has aged rather badly IMO.

Because you need an Aetherflow dump to ready up the next refresh, or you're losing the MP refresh.

I'm tired of healing being attached to damage because in the end, most of the stacks will be used on ED. That's how SCH wants to play at an optimal level and it's become problematic.

You don't really want to touch your Aetherflow heals unless you have to when all your other choices are used up. At this point, Fae Gauge should be the attached to the oGCDs and not Aetherflow.

Either Aetherflow goes or they need to make it just for damage or buffs. You never want to use a heal if you can squeeze out more damage in an optimized environment.

Energy Drain exists because it cannot be without the constraints of Aetherflow. Dissipation suffers from this as well because it's used for DPS purposes rather than healing because it locks out half your kit.

The sheer fact that SGE has a lily/Aetherflow hybrid gauge and doesn't have an Energy Drain equivalent. It's clear that the devs don't like ED and aren't going to entertain the idea of it on SGE.

Tbh, SCH needs a rework as badly as WHM and I mean a deep rework–not a retooling or some things moved around. Like I mean they should abolish their kits and start from square one.