Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
Honestly, it's a tradeoff argument.
The problem: Dissipation is supposed to be an emergency button but is anti-synergistic with the whole kit.
It's not an emergency button. It's a core part of the kit that needs to be played around. Dissipation should be used on cooldown. Not doing so is essentially halving your Aetherflow.


1) Isn't buffed by (2), begging the question "Why are they on the same ability?" Further, (1) is generally used for damage, not healing, anyway.
2) Doesn't buff (1), and instead buffs the least used SCH abilities that are the least responsive, odd for an emergency ability.
3) Despite being an emergency button to boost healing, it dismisses a source of your passive healing and locks out 5 of your oGCDs (a direct single targeet heal, a direct AOE heal, an indirect AOE HoT, an AOE mitigation that also increases healing done [including by Aetherflow], and your big 2 min CD for barrier healing), additionally, it prevents generation of your tertiary healing resource; odd for an emergency healing button.
1. What are you talking about? Aetherflow is used on our best mit (Soil) as well as for our instant-cast heal (indom). ED is only used if you are about to overcap (which means you didn't need to heal), or are going into a burst window.
2. Mostly used for niche cases, but nice for deploying spreadloe.
3. It's not an emergency button. If you are using it as such you are already failing as mit healer. You are looking at a screwdriver and wondering why you can't use it like a battering ram to get through a door here. If you use the tool right (taking off the hinges of the door with the screwdriver) it is a much better tool.

As for the abilities locked out
- Aetherpact is garbage. Scholar could have both it and the Fae gauge completely removed and suffer not one bit.
- Fae Blessing should be used if needed before dissipation. It's a high-priority heal due to being free and should effectively always be on cooldown first. This is a non-issue.
- Fae Illumination and Whispering Wind are generally mapped out. If they coincide with your dissipation windows they can generally wait OR you can delay dissipation.
- Seraph should always be planned, and frankly the heal on it kinda sucks! It's great for mechanics that have moderate, continuous damage. (P4SP2 comes to mind during the tether phases, as you can't stop to cast there). For most raidwides I will prefer Soil, Expedient, Spreadloe, and (if I'm partnered with my static sage) E.T. Succor