Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
The reason we count those other things is because they can't bee used during Dissipation. It's that simple. It's "Dissipation OR these things". You also missed Fey Blessing, though I'm sure you'll say it's also meaningless or some sort.
You use them before or after as needed. It's really that simple.

Fey Blessing is wonderful, but it also can just be used outside of the Dissipation window. Even on cooldown you spend less than a sixth of a fight with your Faerie out.

You also forget that Seraph locks out Fae Blessing too.

Okay, tell me this smart guy; which other Healer has such a trade-off on their big CDs? Which one locks themselves out of part of their kit to use a given CD, and which CD is that?
AST. RNG determines if you get a melee buff or a ranged buff. Your cards do not alternate. Lord and Lady are also mutually exclusive and do different things.

Sage does. In Eukrasia. Admittedly it's not very long, but hitting Eukrasia locks you out of your basic attack until you spend it.

Sage does. Kerakchole and Taurochole do not stack the defense buffs.

Sage and Scholar do. Eukrasian Prognosis and Galvanize cannot be stacked.

Astrologeon does with Lightspeed. You must choose if you want to use it for your burst phase, or if you need it for mobility during tough mechanics. You cannot use it for both.


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Listen. I get it. You play Sage and you don't like how Scholar works. That's fine. Sage exists explicitly for people who want to play a mit healer and don't want to deal with the complexity and (thankfully mild) Jank that comes with SCH. I, and quite a few others, actually very much like Scholar how it is. I don't want to see it blindly, needlessly gutted like a number of other classes for the sake of making it feel even more like other healers.

If you really feel Dissipation is bad, I strongly urge you to go prog/reclear as a Scholar without using it. Please, prove me wrong. Stream it even! I would be fascinated to watch.

But if you can't won't do that, then perhaps you should stand aside and let people who really enjoy the job as it is enjoy the job.