Emergency Tactics should include instant cast

[JakzChurchill]

At level 60 Scholar I think the least useful of our new abilities is Emergency tactics (yes even less useful than Dissipate) The double heal doesn't make up for the loss of shield in most situations and in those oh shit moments adding an extra button press to the mix seems detrimental rather than useful.

I feel I would be more inclined to use it if it made the next shield skill turn into a full heal and be instant cast, this would feel more like an emergency button and be a lot more useful.

It would also help to supplement lustrate and Indomitability so it becomes a choice between mp or aetherflow, feeling like as a so called strategist we have more options available to us.

But in other news also fix dissipate, at least increase the heal potency/ make the next pet summon free / lower the timer on pet being away.

[Sebazy]

I learnt Ravana EX with a double SCH setup and I can happily say that Emergency tactics was a fantastic ability in this case <3

The only use I've found for Dissipate is to get 9 back to back aetherflows for hunts.

[Nague]

you are using it wrong, you use it after you applied a shield and need to recover HP quickly.

[CycLee]

to heal a tank i think it's often not mandatory. but in groupheal it is. -> fat AOE incoming? succor up -> damage received -> emergency tactics+succor and a indomibility as a follow up = great success!

[Hyouretsuzan]

Emergency Tactics is amazing. Only a 30 sec CD too? Finally makes Succor much better. Even better when you crit heals.

[NorthernLadMSP]

you are using it wrong, you use it after you applied a shield and need to recover HP quickly.

No this is incorrect. Using Adlo/Succor then Emergency after does absolutely nothing. You use ET before to make Adlo/Succor basically into a Cure II/Medica.

[Remilia_Nightfall]

In raid content, with a WHM or AST with you, I find it rather useless.

I have stated this when the skill was first announced and I am going to state this again - shields are almost always better then heals, for the simple reason that they can safely "overheal" without waste.

You mention "big aoe damage", but when that happens, the WHM or Diurnal AST is already casting his AoE healbomb(s) with Regen attached. There is zero reason for the SCH to healbomb as well and risk overhealing, or let the partner's Regen become overhealing by topping off people too soon. It is much more MP efficient to use standard Succor and put some shields up. Same goes with Adlo - there is no reason to use the equivalent of Cure II when you can use Adlo. Only one instance comes to mind - DRK Living Dead. But it is extremely situational.

If I need to top up the tank for whatever reason, I drop one Lustrate charge and then normal Adlo. Much better than trying to find a use for ET, imho.

ET had to increase healing potency by 50 or so. That would make the choice worthwhile: do I need mitigation, or do I need a heal that is slightly more powerful than mitigation?

If heal and mitigation have the same value, no sane person would choose heals.

[Nague]

wtf are you talking about, if they dont hjave a shield the normal succor or adlo creates as much health as ET, but when they allready have shield, then ET creates more heal.

[Remilia_Nightfall]

I understand that. But as I said, unless very specific circumstances, you are not healing alone. I have yet to find myself, as SCH, to have to aoe heal on top of my own Succor. Usually the other healer does that while I deal with tanks.
Again, way less overhealing that way.

[Gallus]

Emergency tactics is an ok spell, you can use it to anticipate heavy raid aoe damage in case you don't have stacks of aetherflow or want to save them for indomitability/lustrates. It's almost always only useful with succor...you almost never want to replace an adloquium for a cure II, however, there are times where you want to replace a succor for a medica. It's not the most powerful spell they have given us, but I wouldn't describe it as useless.

Dissipation is useless.