Let's talk about Dissipation

[ckc22]

Just adding my two cents - now that it's unofficially been confirmed that the healing potency increases aren't meant to work collaboratively with ability heals, this ability needs some serious buffs to make it more useful.

As it stands right now, the only use I can still think of using it is if you need a serious eHP boost to take a raid wide damage mechanic equivalent to Teraflare in the face in Alex.

Agreed. As much BS as that is - these rules just get made up as they go along. Why are healing abilities affected by potency debuffs but not buffs? There's no logical consistency.

This ability is so incredibly situational at this point to be practically useless. I find it laughable that they believed it was overpowered at some point.

[Wizarus]

It's a DPS skill plain and simple. You use it to burn down stuff like Fire/Ice cubs against Ascian Prime or Bane when you've run low on your stacks for some reason. Or Dissipate at the end of a trash mob so you have full stacks for DPS if Aetherflow is on CD.

If you think about using it only for the healing buff and more Lustrates and Indos the skill becomes incredibly bad.

[Viviza]

It's less about trying to make SCH even better than it is about trying not to have our capstone ability be virtually useless. I'm sure they can think of something to do with Dissipation that isn't grossly imbalanced, yet is more useful or even just more "fun" than the ability is right now.

Basically this. A situational, long-cooldown ability would be fine. Something fairly weak but useful would also be fine. But as best I can tell this ability hurts more than it helps.

So consider it a free 3 aetherflow stacks then. That's not that bad of an ability to me

But it's not free. Losing the pet isn't worth a 20% buff to 3/5 your healing spells. Nevermind that the pet is 2k mana to resummon, making it pointless as a recovery tool, and the loss of swiftcast for 90 seconds (wait to resummon your faerie in 30 + wait another 60 more) further impairs your ability to heal and resurrect. If you want to be nitpicky, you also lose out on the enhanced pet actions trait, rouse, and the abilities the pet itself brings such as raid dps on selene.

[giantslayer]

I'm not high enough level for dissipate yet, but there have been occasions where I have found myself out of aetherflow stacks and either really needing some emergency lustrates or unable to pop sacred soil for a big attack. Dissipate would have been nice in those situations.

[Ceta_pls]

I explained on reddit how Dissipation is a pretty mediocre skill with VERY situational use and got downvoted heavily, because apparently I don't know how to use the skill effectively and since I'm scholar and have unlimited mana anyway, the 1750 MP for resummoning the fairy are basically non-existant.

So if anyone could give me good uses for Dissipation which don't happen once every fullmoon, I'll be very glad. I just can't get this skill to work in any way at the moment.

I mean, it's crap for mana gain and mediocre (very mediocre) for emergency healing. The only time I actually thought about using it was during hunts, when I needed more Aetherflow stacks for energy drain :P

[Cynfael]

Those people who try to insist that Dissipation is more useful than it is appear not to be following the kind of flow chart mentality that leads others to conclude that it is, in fact, almost never useful.

If you follow your gameplay chart and have to scrape to identify conditionals that lead to branches where you might consider using an ability, then it probably isn't very good.

[Vegettosky]

Actually you can cast Dissipation to consume your fairy's corpse if she dies and hasn't fully vanished yet.

Best suggestion

[Gallus]

Something that would fix this spell is making it so that after 30 seconds, instead of having to resummon your fairy, it simply came back.