Quote Originally Posted by SchrodingersWaffle View Post
I could see them getting rid of Aetherflow entirely and just changing Fester/Painflare to a 15sec recast 1sec CD with 4 shared charges.
Yup, that would be the quick and easy fix, though im not entirely sure if just cutting out ED/ES is enough which is why I suggested lowering Fester/Painflares uses per minute back to just 3 (cutting a total of 4 oGCDs per minute).
Ultimately though this change stands and falls with SE's ability to even put Skills on shared charges (don't see why not, but then again it's SE...).

Quote Originally Posted by Gallus View Post
/signs for the above. And fester not requiring dots to do 300 potency and instead be a 300 potency OGCD without requirements too. It's so stupid to get caught up in some random dungeon miniboss 10kHP vines and needing either 3 ruin III or Bio Miasma Ruin III to kill something a RDM can take down with a single Verthunder/Veraero. Seriously the whole thing is so complex but so inconvenient at the same time it makes me wanna cry, because I love SMN's design so much and I was very excited with these 2 demi summons.
Hmm, I can see where you're coming from. (The Idealist in me wants to say thats what EAs should be for, but the Realist tells me SE might need another expansion to make that work, so...)
On one hand I think divorcing Fester and the DoTs might make it a bit too easy, on the other hand though proper play is already rewarded through stronger Ruins now; and Painflare has nothing to do with your DoTs either so... why not? Alternatively, should they choose to lower Fester usages per minutes they could just redistribute the lost Potency into Festers base potency, so it has 200 base + 100 per DoT for a total of 400, giving you 300 Potency after using just Bio III for a 1 GCD burst.