SCH, Eos or Selene?

[Wobble]

So I'm wondering what your preference is on this. I have had some groups ask me to use Selene because of fey Wind but then Eos has Fey Illumination which is nice for healing boost.

[FoxyAreku]

Eos is unnecessary for 99% of the game and it's arguable if you should even use her in the 1% where she'd help (Savage).

Selene all the way.

[Blood-Aki]

Eos is unnecessary for 99% of the game and it's arguable if you should even use her in the 1% where she'd help (Savage).

Selene all the way.

You're heavily underestimating eos, A1 Savage was a pure example of massive amount of healing needed during the 1st week, and eos's healing boost and other buffs helped tremendously for a WHM co-healer. Keep in mind the more potent healing spells are, the less Mp you have to use, there is also a lot of downtime after feywind. so when few wind is not up selene is pretty useless. or rather, no more useless then eos spamming embrace.

[FoxyAreku]

You're heavily underestimating eos, A1 Savage was a pure example of massive amount of healing needed during the 1st week, and eos's healing boost and other buffs helped tremendously for a WHM co-healer. Keep in mind the more potent healing spells are, the less Mp you have to use, there is also a lot of downtime after feywind. so when few wind is not up selene is pretty useless. or rather, no more useless then eos spamming embrace.

Never said Eos was bad at all.

She's just unnecessary for 99% of the game. Which is true.

I've been trying Eos in savage myself and she definitely makes things a little easier, but that's still just 1% of the game. :P

[Sebazy]

She's just unnecessary for 99% of the game. Which is true.

I can do 99% of the game with nothing but physic, a fairy and gyshal greens on my bars as well. Does that make everything else we have unnecessary?

Naturally, if you're kicking back and just healing even trivial content such as EX roulette then 100% Selene makes more sense, no two ways about it. But if you are DPSing, don't undervalue the additional healing Eos brings, a bit of careful management has her solo healing most of the bosses without issue, leaving me to sit in cleric stance for the majority of the encounter.

I'm not going to do the math, but I'm quietly confident that my personal 500-1200 DPS substantially outweighs even the most optimistic estimate for Fey Wind.

[GideonHighmourn]

I use Selene in 8-mans and Eos in 4-mans, generally. In 4-mans, Whispering Dawn buys me more DPS time (at this point, I don't even leave CS in Neverreap/Fractal) which beats out any sort of bonus that Fey Wind buys the group; until Selene can handle it all with Embrace, which should be soon, I'll continue using EoS in 4-mans. In 8-mans, AoE healing should never be a problem, and the DPS that Fey Wind buys is far more useful than an AoE HoT (that mostly goes into over healing, depending on the encounter).

[Mikedizzy]

If you can heal fine with Selene out and not have people die you should use Selene for the speed boost and detrimental effect removal. It is really up to you though...you are playing the job not them and you do what you feel you are comfortable doing. Just listen to their reasoning and see if you agree and it has merit. Players are usually very helpful and try to make others better. When I was first learning scholar I always did content first with Eos for the "safety" of it and then once I saw where the fight was I then would go Selene to improve overall party efficiency in clearing the dungeon. you can always switch in the dungeon on the fly as well with swiftcast as long as you don't need it to rezz people so you can have the best of both worlds.
YOu cand have selen out and get the speed buff out and then swiftcast Eos for the healing...I don't really recommend this though because as scholar you can dps as well so I use my swiftcast on shadow flare most of the time. Still is up to you...play how you want and have some fun.

[Muahbec]

Exactly what GideonHighmourn said.
Eos for 4-man
Selene for 8-man

[Mimilu]

I only use Eos if the party is doing so bad that they need the heals. Team Selene!

[Marcu18]

Eos!! She's the best! I don't use Selene much anymore since they nerved her speed increase from 20% to only 3%. And Eos casts regens like a white mage and magic defense increase like a black mage lol!!!