Your Opinion on the Current State of Job Identity/Balance in 6.4?

[Renathras]

In the timeline where healers get more dps complexity, would be cool to see the Faerie Gauge used to fuel fairy offensive actions or damage support actions.

But in the current reality, the best I expect from a faerie gauge revamp is to have it be what fuels the Seraph uptime, like battery does to the Automaton queen.

I'm not a pro-DPS minded Healer, but there's a thread about this in the Healer forum which proposed putting Energy Drain on Faerie Gauge instead of Aetherflow. That way, the gauge would have kind of a point in existing, would still retain the "damage or healing" tradeoff (under this design, Aetherpact is reworked to just be a half-potency Lustrate that is cast by Eos instead of the SCH), but wouldn't lock out the use of AF abilities. One of the most requested changes to SCH is to decouple Energy Drain from Aetherflow since people feel bad for using anything that isn't Energy Drain as "being suboptimal", they just want to have an AF dump if they still have stacks left as AF is coming off CD. The solution to that in this idea is Excog not having a CD so it can be used as a dump, since there's almost always someone putting an Excog on would be useful for.

It's not perfect, but it kind of does that and makes Faerie Gauge not ENTIRELY meaningless: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...e-Proposal-SCH

.

EDIT:

For whoever needs to hear it:

A Sylphie is someone who does no damage, not a person who doesn't enjoy complex damage rotations but uses the existing ones to deal damage. (It's also a rude insult to begin with, so shouldn't even be used, but if you're going to use it, at least use it correctly - Cure/Medica spamming mages, for example, would qualify, not people who have the majority of their casts as Glares/Dias)

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.