SCH, Eos or Selene?

[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

[LStarbreeze]

Fey Wind is hardly noticeable. Fey Caress me gusta a lot, though. It's actually useful because a SCH doesn't have an aoe leeches. Everything Eos does I can do without. :/

[nyxxye]

i use selene when i don't need to heal too much aka dps-ing. When swiftcast is up and my group needs extra healing i'll switch to Eos.
then back again to selene.
Not that i'm an expert in swapping fairies *im still learning* , but i think it's a good idea to make use both of the fairies as different skill on their hotbar didn't share the same cooldown ( so u can use fey wind , swap to eos then use fey illum & whispering down , if u like )

[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.

[Nekotee]

Selene is far more useful now because of her massive dispell

I use her for 4-man content, she's more than enough as back-up heal.
I abuse Eos in 8-man content, because she's a wonderful healing support.
=> A1S using her fey covenant on a tank before plasma can save his life

[NessaWyvern]

Selene for everyday raids, and status debuff removal, Eos for those tough fights you need more healing for, and pvp. I love Eos in pvp :3

[Zaresin]

No good math would have have Fey Wind do a 1.5% increase in party DPS. It's much less.

Considering people with more knowledge and experience compared to your few months experience have crunched the numbers on numerous posts and sites about this, you might want to back up your post with actual data.

To the OP. Which fairy you use is situational. If you are not up to par or just not that great of healer, then eos will be your go to fairy. If you are a competent healer then Selene will be the fairy to use. Any kind of raid wide increase to damage output like Selene's remade buff does is less healing you will have to do overall. If something dies faster, less healing you should need to do over a course of a fight.

I will say this, eos is a crutch for bad healers a lot of the time. Whether it is gear related or skill related is not the problem as both are fixable. Having s potency increase to compensate for your short comings is a definition of a crutch.

[Rawrz]

Considering people with more knowledge and experience compared to your few months experience have crunched the numbers on numerous posts and sites about this, you might want to back up your post with actual data.

To the OP. Which fairy you use is situational. If you are not up to par or just not that great of healer, then eos will be your go to fairy. If you are a competent healer then Selene will be the fairy to use. Any kind of raid wide increase to damage output like Selene's remade buff does is less healing you will have to do overall. If something dies faster, less healing you should need to do over a course of a fight.

I will say this, eos is a crutch for bad healers a lot of the time. Whether it is gear related or skill related is not the problem as both are fixable. Having s potency increase to compensate for your short comings is a definition of a crutch.

I wanna see you test this. Go out to a dummy and cast fey wind. Broil it as many times as you can. ~11 times right?
Now Cast adlo on yourself for a timer, and do the same thing. Broil it as many times as you can. ~11 times again right?

It takes almost 3 rotations of Fey wind (1 minute and 20 seconds of buff time or about 2 minutes and 20 seconds total) to get that extra GCD. I wanna see this miracle math and data you're talking about. Selene helps dps/healers with poor speed stats to hit their rotations and push their buffs about a tenth of a second easier(7/10 really if you're starting at at least 2.43.)

3% x 8≠ 24%. Everyone's GCDs are seperate. They do not add up instantly to make the group hit faster and thus hit harder. It takes everyone those 33 GCDs to reach a benifit of a real dps increase of "1.5%."

[Sidra]

Considering people with more knowledge and experience compared to your few months experience have crunched the numbers on numerous posts and sites about this, you might want to back up your post with actual data.

Excuse me? The 3% number is derived from quite simply stating 50% up time of a 3% ability. Is that what you call number crunching? However, the buff doesn't impact damage, it effects GCD and autoattack speed. However, there is a ton of damage in this game that is not tied to autoattcks or GCDs. Dots, and off GCD, primarily. We're talking a lot of damage that Fey Wind simply doesn't impact at all which detracts from the 1.5%. So please, point me to this amazing math that shows Fey Wind has a 1.5% overall party dps increase.

I am surprised I had to explain that is to you as it's quite simple - someone of obviously intelligent as you shouldn't have needed any explanation.

[Cynfael]

Which fairy you use is situational.

Well...this part was true.