What Dissipation should have been

[Rubiss]

After receiving some positive feedback in another thread about Scholar skills I've decided to make my own thread.

Dissipation, as it stands, is so situational it's almost next to useless. I won't rag on it too much as it has legitimately saved the day in Alexander Savage for me, but that was due to the Aetherflow and the fact that the very last phase of A2S requires little healing when just the Gobwidows are left.

At any rate, I think Dissipation would be better if the reward was higher. Either a boost to the overall percentage gained to healing (I heard that the 20% isn't even worth it as the fairy healing for 30 seconds greatly outweighs it.) or making it boost spells and abilities. To be honest, if I had to rework Dissipation I'd do it like this...

Gives the user three Aetherflow stacks, desummons their fairy and summons the opposite fairy. So if you used Dissipation with Selene, she would go away and Eos would replace her. Based on which fairy was desummoned the Scholar would gain a different effect. If Selene is desummoned, maybe the entire party gets a haste buff (which can override or stack with Fey Wind). Maybe like 10%? (This is once every 3 minutes, you know). If Eos is desummoned, give the Scholar 20% more healing on spells and abilities.

This may sound OP but I think it adds a new meta to Scholar healing. Not only would you use Dissipation for emergency healing, but you would use it swap fairies. This actually enables the Scholar to use everything in their toolkit and would give each fairy some time to shine without the huge penalty of either wasting 5 precious seconds or blowing an important Swiftcast.

Let me know what you think and what you would change. I understand Scholar is a great healer and I'm not trying to buff them to make them broken, but Dissipation is just far too situational to even see proper use.

[Ninimo_Babamo]

Have you seen any Alexander Savage group without a scholar? No.
Scholar is fine and needs no changes and needs no buffs.

[Alistaire]

Have you seen any Alexander Savage group without a scholar? No.
Scholar is fine and needs no changes and needs no buffs.

This. You can never balance based on individual skills. You have to balance based on the whole package.

Is the skill bad? Sure, it could've been a lot better. But the whole package is still top-notch.

[Rubiss]

This. You can never balance based on individual skills. You have to balance based on the whole package.

Is the skill bad? Sure, it could've been a lot better. But the whole package is still top-notch.

I don't see why a class being good warrants a poor skill. I'm not saying that Scholar isn't good. I main a Scholar, I am aware that the class is quite good. However Dissipation is not very good at all. Fairy switching is almost non-existent and when it is used, it is very costly. Dissipation can save the day at times (very rarely) but you end up fairyless and have to either sit there for several seconds (costing you DPS and heal time) and resummon the fairy or use Swiftcast which is a very valuable tool.

I know Scholar is fine. They're a nice class who can do their role well. I don't see why that warrants having such a poor skill.

[NorthernLadMSP]

Have you seen any Alexander Savage group without a scholar? No.
Scholar is fine and needs no changes and needs no buffs.

My group does not have a SCH. We're running AST and WHM.

[Khyan]

Most of the time when I use Dissipation during savage, it's for additionnal dps before changing fairy, depend of the phase.

This would be a god send for me.

[Alu79]

Most of the time when I use Dissipation during savage, it's for additionnal dps before changing fairy, depend of the phase.

This would be a god send for me.

Extra DPS? You mean Energy Drain? It's the only thing I can think of. I am sure it doesn't increase dmg potencies.. Maybe bane? It's really all I can think of, does this actually do something else for dps?

[Khyan]

Extra DPS? You mean Energy Drain? It's the only thing I can think of. I am sure it doesn't increase dmg potencies.. Maybe bane? It's really all I can think of, does this actually do something else for dps?

Both and it does. Energy drain is not in gcd.

[Sailysium]

Dissipation will only incease healing potency but ur dps will spike a little more from gaining xtra stacks while waiting for AF for 30+ seconds to burn more ED and banes within dps opener/priority rotations. Risky and I usually only do this for my opener of 9 EDs total weaved in or via dungeons when the timing is right so that SC and Fey Wind just come up when dissipation ends

[KinnisonArc]

After Dissipation wore off, I think a simple 10~15 seconds buff that gives you instant cast and no MP cost for Summon I / Summon II will be great. Since the skill already has a long cooldown I don't think this addition will make it too OP, it's just so you don't have to use the Aetherstack gained from it for Energy Drain if you're out of MP and swiftcast your fairy back.