On Fey Blessing...

[SayuyuYuyu]

What on earth is this spell meant to be good for?

The potency is so low that it's outshined by Whispering Dawn, Indom, and Sacred Soil - so why would I ever want to waste an oGCD slot on it.
If you look at a certain other Fairy oGCD (WD) which has a 60 second cooldown, that heals for 840 potency - which is a landslide better than Fey Blessing's measly 350 potency.
Since the cooldown is a whopping 60 seconds long, the low potency can't even be justified. If it were spammable then maybe...


What I'd propose is a change to make it work like an AOE Fey Union in that you have to toggle it on.

When you turn it on, every 3-5 seconds the Fairy sends out an AOE heal.
Possibly reduce the radius somewhat so that people need to be stood closer to the Fairy, and maybe reduce the potency per heal, but I reckon that'd work much better than how it currently is.

[LegoTechnic]

Its selling points are mana conservation as it's a free AoE heal (only costs fairy meter), and it can work as a fallback AoE heal if you don't have a stack for indom (or it's on its long cooldown), or if you need to top off your Succor with a little more oomph while still prepping the shields.

I didn't say they were good selling points, and I agree it feels really weak especially given the fairy's reduced potency-tax, but it can have its uses, especially since it uses meter and not aetherflow stacks. While you generally have to make it useful yourself, it's certainly easier to rationalize than our more problematic abilities like Dissipation.

[Hysterior]

I find it more useful than fey union most of the time. Not super useful, dont get me wrong, but that's still an AOE heal every minute for free.

[Rubiss]

It's actually garbage. I don't think it's worth ever clipping a Broil II for and should only ever be used if you have to move and use Ruin II. Nowhere else. It's really trash.

[SayuyuYuyu]

Its selling points are mana conservation as it's a free AoE heal (only costs fairy meter), and it can work as a fallback AoE heal if you don't have a stack for indom (or it's on its long cooldown), or if you need to top off your Succor with a little more oomph while still prepping the shields.

I didn't say they were good selling points, and I agree it feels really weak especially given the fairy's reduced potency-tax, but it can have its uses, especially since it uses meter and not aetherflow stacks. While you generally have to make it useful yourself, it's certainly easier to rationalize than our more problematic abilities like Dissipation.

Even the selling points you've listed are barely good. I've yet to actually have mana problems on SCH due to how much healing I can now do with oGCDs.

Also what's the problem with Dissipation?
Using it before Recitation adds even more value to an ability that has heaps of value, and having 3 extra Aetherflow to spend on whatever you need is nice too. The cherry on top is that Fairys now resummon themselves.

[Sylve]

Its a supplement to Succor, in my opinion.
I get good use out of it by following a Succor with it after a partywide hit. Succor -> Blessing -> let fairy hug people behind the shield. Everyones topped off before the next hit, which is mitigated by the previous Succor and then WD if there is a follow up AoE.

Be nice if it had a lower cooldown, but I don't think its required.
Only way they'd remove the cooldown is to make it cost like 30 FG.

Or maybe im just weird and trust the Fairy to hug the right people. Its worked out for me so far though, lol.

[LegoTechnic]

Even the selling points you've listed are barely good. I've yet to actually have mana problems on SCH due to how much healing I can now do with oGCDs.

Also what's the problem with Dissipation?
Using it before Recitation adds even more value to an ability that has heaps of value, and having 3 extra Aetherflow to spend on whatever you need is nice too. The cherry on top is that Fairys now resummon themselves.

The problem with Dissipation is that it locks the fairy and all its abilities out for 30 seconds for a 20% buff to adloquium and succor, as the buff does not effect any ability that consumes Aetherflow stacks. Additionally the extra aetherflow stacks are largely superfluous because using them alongside the cooldowns of aetherflow abilities largely relegates two of them into additional lustrates, and energy drain no longer exists to afford a dump for them. Fairy meter, while not the most desired resource, is also not accumulated while the fairy is away even if you use the extra aether charges.

Thus in practice using it to buff a crit shield before deploy is typically its primary purpose, because otherwise its benefit only shows if you're actually having to spam-GCD heal a tank with adlo and physick, and even then it's very situational for the 20% healing buff to prove better than having the fairy out to embrace, and not at all better if Seraph's cooldown is available. And that's largely it. There is always the potential to pop it in an "OH CRAP" moment where triple lustrate may give you a clinch super-save, because those moments happen, but those are its role, and the cost of using it remains awkward and annoying.

That's not to say it isn't useful, because Dissipation was always great to have at the end of damage-AoE-spam phases like Brute Justice's fire spin, Omega's final phase, and Ultima's last charge attack. It's always been great for beefing up Succor at the tail end of a fight, but more often than not its primary use was additional energy drains, and with that gone, it's just become even more niche due to its weaknesses.

[JohnSeal]

People just talk without understanding the greatness of Fey Blessing, that’s just sad like do some ppl even think about things before typing them in here xD

[JohnSeal]

Just saying: Dissipation is horrible for many reasons, that’s tremendous and pointless to use xD

[Sylve]

The problem with Dissipation is that it locks the fairy and all its abilities out for 30 seconds for a 20% buff to adloquium and succor, as the buff does not effect any ability that consumes Aetherflow stacks. Additionally the extra aetherflow stacks are largely superfluous because using them alongside the cooldowns of aetherflow abilities largely relegates two of them into additional lustrates, and energy drain no longer exists to afford a dump for them. Fairy meter, while not the most desired resource, is also not accumulated while the fairy is away even if you use the extra aether charges.

Thus in practice using it to buff a crit shield before deploy is typically its primary purpose, because otherwise its benefit only shows if you're actually having to spam-GCD heal a tank with adlo and physick, and even then it's very situational for the 20% healing buff to prove better than having the fairy out to embrace, and not at all better if Seraph's cooldown is available. And that's largely it. There is always the potential to pop it in an "OH CRAP" moment where triple lustrate may give you a clinch super-save, because those moments happen, but those are its role, and the cost of using it remains awkward and annoying.

That's not to say it isn't useful, because Dissipation was always great to have at the end of damage-AoE-spam phases like Brute Justice's fire spin, Omega's final phase, and Ultima's last charge attack. It's always been great for beefing up Succor at the tail end of a fight, but more often than not its primary use was additional energy drains, and with that gone, it's just become even more niche due to its weaknesses.

Dissipation just needs to not feel punishing to use. I'd suggest making Healing Spells generate Fairy Gauge while Dissipation is active. So we could use it to get AF stacks, boost GCD healing when required and then have a near full Gauge at the end of it to justify losing 10 casts of Embrace and access to WD,FI and FB, especially since the bonus AF stacks from Dissipation don't even benefit from the boost Dissipation provides AND locks us out of FG generation too...

There are simply too many drawbacks to using it.