Quote Originally Posted by Supersnow845 View Post
At the very very least at least at least energy drain correctly encourages you to focus on the fairy heals which is about the last shred of good design in the healer space

If energy drain didn’t exist then SCH would just dump down sacred soil for everything like SGE does with kerechole, having energy drain be the opportunity cost and making whispering dawn have such a short range really does make you actually consider the fairy even if there are only actually 6 skills+ embrace that actually interact with the fairy directly
I really wish they leaned into the fairy more. It would be great if optimal gameplay on SCH involves micromanaging the fairy heavily to reduce GCD healing required instead of just throwing out heals for free.

Would be nice if the distinction between pure and shield healers is that pure healers have damage refunds and are required to GCD heal while shield healers have no damage refund at all and optimal gameplay requires you to heavily micromanage your tools (fairy and kardia) so that you're not forced to GCD heal unnecessarily.