The problem with Aetherflow Logic....

[Foxkid]

You can't obtain seals out of combat, you can't generate lilies out of combat. I think it's just more of a "balance the healers-thing" going on.

The thing being though is you still don't generate fey gauge out of it but as far as I know (cause I haven't played the other 2), their better heals aren't locked behind limited access resources since I always hear "physick is garbage, needs a buff", so I don't get where the balance is there where the whm can still cast a benediction and ast can just pop (malefic? benison?) and its only limited via cooldown like Illuminosity (when you don't have the skill name in front of you....), but scholar can't pop aether to put the "kick me" note [excog] on the tank pre-pull at the absolute minimum.

If fairy abilities gave out more and cost aether then I could understand, but as it is now, excog especially and through say potd and hoh when you end up stuck on traps, landmines, and explosive coffers but aren't "in combat", things like that are just infuriating when you can't fix it beyond spamming 4-6 physicks with embraces tossed in to fix that issue.

[Gemina]

I don't do savage raids, but I figured this change happened because of a couple of reasons that coincide with each other. Going into a fight with 3 stacks plus aetherflow off of CD basically allowed SCHs to open with excog and two energy drains, and then immediately refresh their stacks. Because of this, I can definitely understand wanting the SCH to go into the fight with all six chambers loaded, so-to-speak. Thing is, for max level content a SCH can queue loaded up and would not lose their stacks, so I honestly don't even know why this in itself was an issue.

Without energy drain though, then the change isn't even necessary. I suppose there's slapping an excog on the tank pre-fight that they might have wanted us to get away from, but again, I don't really understand the reasoning behind the change. I can still resort to an excog before an adlo to save GCDs for damage.

In short, it's just a nuisance. I am willing to compromise though for the return on Energy Drain.