Healers need an overhaul

[Nizzi]

You die with Dissipate and Aetherflow on cooldown, and you have no stacks. Meaning no Excog, no Lustrate, no Sacred Soil, no Indom, until it comes back. You're effectively dead in the water for up to 50 seconds. No other healer deals with that for resources. Sage and WHM will get a resource back every 20s, AST has no resources. Hell, SCH has to choose between healing or doing damage with its resource, something no other healer has to deal with! SCH is the only one that gets screwed over in these departments.

I have an entire thread in the healer forum about how Scholar is probably one of the worst designed jobs in the game. It's in major need of some help, however I really don't want to see Aetherflow taken away, nor Energy Drain. They're genuinely the only management left in SCH's kit that is unique to SCH and SCH alone and they're actually probably the best parts of its kit. If Aetherflow/ED were yanked out of SCH, I would almost assuredly quit this game entirely - I do not want SCH becoming "gets resource every 20s" like WHM and SGE. I hate those jobs, and I don't have fun playing them. SGE reveals how worthless these buttons feel to hit without having Energy Drain - at least to me, it's because there's a DPS cost attached to it that I know I'm making the better decision in the moment to spend it on Soil or Excog while Recitation is on CD, or a needed Indom because too many people screwed something up, etc. Every other healer doesn't have any sort of management, they're all "I hit button and do heal!" and wow that's great for them but man I really, really hate the fact that they all play the same in regards to their DPS. Can we please leave at least one healer somewhat different at least in how it manages its heals?

I see everyone wanting them to do more with the Fey Gauge. Why? The fact that they have consistently failed to do anything interesting with it should show that they're incapable of doing so and I'd much prefer they remove it entirely than try their best at maybe accomplishing making it interesting after 4 expacs (because they won't do it in EW) while yanking out the only interesting thing left in SCH's kit to do so. Scholar needs MORE management, not less. SCH doesn't need passive resources that it gets for existing and being a good little boy, it needs things its watching and managing because it is a strategist tactician. This is why DoTs work for SCH, because SCH is a timer management job even though they've removed Miasma, Miasma II and Shadow Flare. Aetherflow and Energy Drain are management skills. They don't need to go. They can readd Miasma and Bane without yanking out the core dopamine button of Scholar.