Change SCH Dissipation

[Jamini]

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

[Deceptus]

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.

But the question is: Is the opportunity cost for losing the fairy worth the resources gained?

I submit that it is not.

Say you use it on DPS like most people say you should. It's 300 potency for a complete loss of fairy healing for 30s. That is a single extra Broil every 2 min. You're not exactly contributing more to the fight than if you didn't press that button.

That'd be like saying to Sage: When you use Rhiozomata your Kardia is removed from the target and you can't use Physis for 30s and your Addersting generation is stopped.

Now, if Quickened Aetherflow was still around, that would be a different story but CBU3 removed it.

[Jamini]

But the question is: Is the opportunity cost for losing the fairy worth the resources gained?

I submit that it is not.

Say you use it on DPS like most people say you should. It's 300 potency for a complete loss of fairy healing for 30s. That is a single extra Broil every 2 min. You're not exactly contributing more to the fight than if you didn't press that button.

That'd be like saying to Sage: When you use Rhiozomata your Kardia is removed from the target and you can't use Physis for 30s and your Addersting generation is stopped.

Now, if Quickened Aetherflow was still around, that would be a different story but CBU3 removed it.

And you are wrong because it is worth it to use Dissipation on cooldown.

- Embrace: Cure Potency 180. Recast 3s (longer if you are moving at all). Total potency of 1800 over the course of dissipation.
- A single Cast of Sacred Soil: Cure Potency 100. Total potency of 500 per target over the course of a single cast. (2000 in light parties, 4000 in full parties)
- One cast of Excognition is 800 potency. This is a 200 potency gain for a third of your lost embraces. And because you can target the heals, it comes out ahead
- One cast of Lustrate is 600 potency. This means even if you burn all of your gained Aetherflow on Lustrates, it's still not a loss because you can direct the heals and don't need to worry about losing faerie casts from her moving.

Learning how to map out your faerie only abilities for 10 of 60 GCDs so you don't use them during your dissipation window is part of the actual skill expression and depth of the class. It is still shallow but let's not make healers any more brain-dead then they are.

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That'd be like saying to Sage: When you use Rhiozomata your Kardia is removed from the target and you can't use Physis for 30s and your Addersting generation is stopped.

Sage isn't scholar, even though sage was designed as the dark mirror of Scholar in play. Sage doesn't have the utility of Ruin II for movement. Sage doesn't get the ability to deploy a critical shield for half of someone's health to the entire party. Sage cannot place Kerachole with the same freedom Scholar can soil. (It was for this reason alone that we had to swap our Sage to the central position for Purgation. Because his regen wasn't quite hitting everyone if we put him on the edge like I was.). Sage cannot have Kardia remotely heal with a place commend (Very useful for any mechanic for clock spots.) Sage doesn't have a party reposition that Scholar has in Expedient.

Rhizomata isn't even a direct comparison to Dissipation. It's on a 90s coooldown and only grants a single stack of Addersgall! Sage gets fewer resources than Scholar does for healing, if only so slightly, and in return they have a simpler kit and slightly more reliable generation. This is good Scholar and Sage need to have things that make them play differently.