Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
Yes, it is. If you're using your abilities correctly, you will rarely be at 3 AF stacks when AF comes off CD.
BECAUSE OF ENERGY DRAIN!!!! They sure as hell aren't being used for heals if only 16 stacks are used in a 19 minute fight; that isn't even 1 heal per minute so what are they using those extra stacks for if not Energy Drain? People aren't going to just throw out Soils, Indoms, etc for no justifiable reason if the party doesn't need it, which the 2nd group clearly did since they obviously had a harder time clearing the fight, either thru human error, lack of coordination, or any other combination of factors that we don't know about. That still doesn't change the fact that they still had to use Aetherflow stacks on Energy Drain because you'd have far more than just 27 Aetherflow stacks in that entire fight.

I find SGE boring because there is no interactions within its toolkit. Energy Drain is an interaction, a decision on whether to heal or DPS, which is far more than the other healers get given that their Healing toolkits are barren of any interaction apart from buffs that make you heal more. Even AST's cards don't offer much of a choice anymore since they're all the same now.

Either you're talking of "purely your fantasy" or you've never been in a PF before, lol
Just because PF is a shitshow, doesn't mean that I'm burning all of my Aetherflow stacks on heals because generally if you screw up a mechanic in Savage, 9/10 it's a wipe. Sure, if someone dies after resolving their mechanic, I can rez them and if Aetherpact is too slow before the next mechanic, then I'll throw a Lustrate their way but in those situations it's not overhealing because the person is at 25%.

Unless you're burning all 3-6 stacks within the 15s or so that Raid buffs are up, Energy Drain is not getting into the buff window as often as you believe it does. The Dissipation opener allows for some level of flexibility but if the burst window is delayed for whatever reason, such as the boss becoming untargetable, then it's possible that you'll delay Aetherflow before being able to spend excess stacks.

Getting more usage out of Soil, Excog, etc doesn't make SCH better. It makes it more braindead to play since it would lose the only real interaction within the toolkit and makes Dissipation and Aetherpact worse off for its removal.