Quote Originally Posted by fulminating View Post
Anti synergies are engaging-interesting design. And I do that more often than burning for 300 potency of free* damage
Regarding Energy Drain, I often read two things:

1. The choice of using AF for Healing or Damage makes the gameplay interesting, and offers a layer of optimization that gives Scholar a distinct identity amongst the healers.

2. Losing 300 potency a minute is such a minuscule difference that really, it doesn't matter.

So which one is it? If it's such a minimal difference and 300 potency is such an unimportant gain, surely it wouldn't matter wether we removed the skill at all, at least it terms of trading healing for damage.

The point of Energy drain had always been as an AF dump, to be used at the end of Aetherflow's cooldown so that the charges are not overriden if any of them remain. To get some value out of the healing we didn't need to use in that 1 minute cycle.

But why does it have to be a trade for damage. Why can it just be MP. We all understand that damage has better value than healing, so finding the rare occasions where AF for healing would be a DPS gain, like Sacred Soil is already an effective trade, between needing to use a GCD heal tool and casting another Broil.

I'm not advocating for the removal of Energy Drain as an AF dump tool, but rather I'd like it to actually be an AF dump as it is clearly intended, rather than damage lost whenever we use Indomitabily, Sacred Soil, Lustrate or Excog.