7.0 Healer Wishlist

[Loggos]

SCH: Remove Dissipation or rework to where it no longer removes Eos. Remove Fey Blessing's CD, it now costs 30 Faerie Gauge to execute. Remove Energy Drain from costing Aetherflow, it now costs 10 Faerie Gauge. Lower Deployment Tactics' CD to 60 seconds. Have Lustrate upgrade via Trait to also granting a 200 potency barrier (like Celestial Intersection manages to do) and/or give it a short duration (5 sec?) sprint speed to the target like Expedience does.

Genuine question (no hate intended!) but wouldn't moving ED from stacks to fairy gauge keep the root problem of scholar's contradictory "heal or damage" kit design in place? Esp. if you tie more skills than fairy union to the gauge?

Instead of having to decide whether I sacrifice aetherflow heals for damage I'd decide whether I sacrifice fairy healing for damage.

And since I can collect up to 10 charges of ED with the proposed design the pressure to use many if not all fairy gauge charges for (considerably more) damage might be even bigger.
Sure, fairy skills are really strong (though one reason for that is precisely because they are currently not damage negative unlike stack heals, right?) but if you could also deal so much more damage than now instead of using them then it might become a lot more conflicting.

I feel like this might only transfer the problem from one side of the tool kit (stacks) to the other (fairy).

(And I would argue this would also be the case if the other fairy skills kept their CDs and only fey union would cost gauge charges. It's a skill I really like and wouldn't want to see compromised by the "heal or damage"-paradox.)

Tbh I don't want to decide between my class' unique kit and damage at all.
I would like to dps while retaining what makes my job fun and unique and have my dps design complement my healing kit, not be in constant competition with it.

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About the fairy skills costing 30 gauge points instead of having a CD, imo that would only work if we got more gauge charges from using stacks because otherwise I think it might just lower healing capabilities?
If gauge generation stays the same we'd have the same amount of gauge charges that would have to be stretched thinner because fairy skills and fey union would suddenly compete for the same resources.

I think it would either lower the efficiency of fey union because we could only use it for shorter durations/on fewer occasions or we might have to forgo other fairy actions in favour of FU, hence less overall healing in either case.