The Last SCH Problem: Dissipation

[Riyshn]

Honestly the only thing I agree with is Dissipation needing a change, and as everyone has said, making it so it would make Summon or Summon II instant and MP-free would be perfection.

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My only true gripes with SCH right now are that Dissipation remains unchanged and that Selene is still literally just Fey Wind pre-pull, but these problems were very present in HW. Kind of a shame they're still not quite there.

I honestly don't think Dissipation needs that buff anymore. The new version of Quickened Aetherflow meaning that Dissipation lets you bring Aetherflow's CD down to 30 seconds is huge. I've been doing this as my opener:

Precast Broil II
Bio II > Shadowflare > Energy drain
Miasma
Miasma II > Chain Stratagem > Energy Drain
Broil II > Energy Drain > Aetherflow
Broil II > Energy Drain
Broil II > Energy Drain
Miasma II > Energy Drain > Dissipation
Broil II > Energy Drain
Broil II > Energy Drain
Miasma> Energy Drain
Bio II > Aetherflow

(DoT reapplications are based on GCD being 3 seconds because I'm too tired to work out what the actual timings are and most of those are clipping because of the Broil II anyway. It gets the idea across.)

Replace DPS spells with heals as needed obviously, but it seriously allows you to use an Aetherflow ability nearly every GCD for pretty much the first 30 seconds of the fight. That is a lot of extra potency or potential healing in that time, and you can do this every 3 minutes when Dissipation is available.

The only two changes I would make to SCH at this point are allowing Aetherflow stacks spent under the effect of Dissipation to fill the Fairy Gauge, or reducing Fey Union's cost-per-tick from 10 to 5. And honestly probably not even both, just one of the two. (Well, only changes other than fixing the pet AI and Selene, I mean.)