[Scholar] Its time we talk about Selene

[MichiKyou]

Hey guys!

I've been playing scholar since 2.0, and love the job. Everything from their university styled clothing and the cute spectacles. I just have one issue that has been griping with me since the release of heavensward.

Selene

Who is Selene? Selene is the other faerie that scholars have with the Summon II spell, she was initially the buff and support faerie that scholars had who could Buff Spell speed and attack speed. However, since the release of Astrologian, Selene has become a thing of memory. Something people summon only for the shits and gigs or for very specific content.

Why do I have an issue with Selene? well, I don't, not really. I just really want her to be on par for usefulness as Eos is. Eos is a great well rounded healer with raid wide hots, heals and healing support.

Selene has an AOE Esuna, a Silence and a 3% weapon skill inscrease buff. What I am suggesting to SE is that they readdress Selene, Heck, Maybe make scholars able to summon her in PVP again. Fey Wind needs to be seriously readjusted. The meta has changed, what is required of healers have changed.

People want utility, but Selene is holding scholar back still.

[Elamys]

man i hate eos so i always use selene lol. but she could use some buffs. make the silence something else because almost nothing can be silenced and increase fey wind's percentage a bit and we'd probably be fine.

if we wanted to keep going the cc route with silent dusk, a stun would be nice. you can stun lots of stuff. but i think scrapping it as a cc ability entirely would probably be best.

[MichiKyou]

Removing Silence and just giving it another buff, and upping Fey Wind to maybe 10% would be better.

[MagicalLoli]

AoE Esuna is great.

Silence is very unreliable as it'll be delayed if she is mid-embrace, though on paper it can be useful in some scenarios. I would much prefer some mitigation, though (what if she gave an AoE shield instead? Hmm...)

Fey Wind is mediocre beyond heck. If it were like 5% at least, maybe it'd be ok...

[Cupcakesu]

Removing Silence and just giving it another buff, and upping Fey Wind to maybe 10% would be better.

Yes, let's give a 10% party DPS boost to Scholar after they just took one away from AST. Sounds brilliant.

[Riyshn]

Yes, let's give a 10% party DPS boost to Scholar after they just took one away from AST. Sounds brilliant.

Actually, they just took a 20% buff away and replaced it with a 10%, and a new different 10% buff.

(Not arguing that 10% Fey Wind would be a good idea; I haven't thought much about what Selene could use. Just that your argument is wrong.)

[Airget]

Could change Dissipitation to have an added effect based on what faerie you have out. Could do the same thing with the Faerie tether, have the effect based on what faerie you have out. THere are ways they could encourage strategy between the two pets based on the situations, they just have to take the time to integrate them into SCH's abilities.

[LegoTechnic]

I'm curious to see how Exdeath's Doom mechanic works in savage. Selene didn't get her AoE Esuna until long after Venomous Tail and Throttle ceased being issues, and there hasn't really been an esuna-need mechanic in raid since A3S. Maybe we'll finally see an encounter where Selene's cleanse will be useful enough to keep her on Obey?

[ZonHoodn]

Actually, they just took a 20% buff away and replaced it with a 10%, and a new different 10% buff.

(Not arguing that 10% Fey Wind would be a good idea; I haven't thought much about what Selene could use. Just that your argument is wrong.)

To add to that... this is just Balance before they buffed it..

[Shurrikhan]

Actually, they just took a 20% buff away and replaced it with a 10%, and a new different 10% ~3% buff.

Have we forgotten that a critical strike is not double damage, and therefore a critical strike increase is not an equivalent damage increase? Moreover, the multiplier was nerfed in 4.0. It's unlikely it'll even return to its previously base +50% this expansion. You now have a 10% added chance to deal up to a third more damage. Its strength would need to be nearly tripled to compete with Balance even now.