Quote Originally Posted by Carighan View Post
I'd argue it cannot be, but eh, I can easily see how this is a very personal opinion thing.

To me personally, "managing" my pet doesn't just mean pressing a button to queue a cast of the pet. That's just me casting the spell, but with a minor extra delay on the spell going off. Just like now, that reduces the pet to a DoT or HoT with fancier graphics. Might as well let me cast all the spells but originate the graphics from the pet and th.... oh. Oh that's exactly what they did, yeah.

Of course, making the resource for these non-pet-abilities work better, that's a given. Current fairie gauge -> union is pointless, as is the aetherflow charges I'd argue. A leftover from how cobbled together Scholar feels given how often it was reworked.
Pets can be immortal specifically for support roles unless the pet is tied to something that isn't key like healing to the role. If your fae as SCH were exclusively damage dealers I think them having HP would be more fine because a healers priorities should always be healing then damage but currently since the faes are part of your healing kit they have to be immortal.

But other forms of managament can be attached to a healing pet, you could have your fairy do far more healing then Kardia for example but have it have MP that drains so you have to manage the mp and restore it through different systems such as giving it some of your MP for example, this along with a dps systems on scholar means you can expand further on the whole trade healing for damage system past just ED so early in prog stages you might have to sacrifice your personal dps by giving up MP for DPS moves to your fairy for stronger healing then over time optimise a fight to not need give up MP and deal more damage. Or they can try a completely different system such as giving the fairy far stronger healing but it being position based so you have to place your fairy in areas to hit who you want to heal. I think the fairy can still have management past HP.