Quote Originally Posted by Zaytex View Post
My gripe with Scholar is how you're incentivised to not use your healing tools with aetherflow because you want to use ED x3, even if the damage is little (300 potency extra per minute). Sage feels better because it's DPS buttons are not tied to that, i.e Phlegma.
And this is what I'm talking about. It's a differing mentality thing.

If you see ED as a baseline 300 potency per minute that you're losing whenever you have to heal, it's obvious that you're going to have gripes with it. But if you see the 300 potency as a bonus you gain if you use your other healing tools well to cover the damage, suddenly you don't mind using Indom/Soil anymore.

ED is not the problem, it offers choice to the player. If the player makes a bad choice, that is not the fault of the design, that is the player's own fault. If someone chooses to ED when an Indom would save their cohealer a Medica 2 cast, they've chosen to gain 100 potency at the expense of 310 of their cohealer's potency, resulting in a net negative party dps of 210. That's what happens when you have a choice, sometimes you make a suboptimal one, and that's ok.