Scholar Aetherflow Issues

[EaMett]

I’m not a SCH main by any means, but I find it really annoying that I can’t Aetherflow out of combat anymore. Really interferes with trying to get an Excog on a tank pre-pull, which is what I usually did. Especially in dungeons just to give them cushion while they’re pulling/establishing hate. Now it’s like... I have to enter combat, Aetherflow if I don’t have the stacks, and then Excog. Which feels really awkward to do. But, again, I’m not a SCH main by any stretch. It’s the weakest of the three healers for me.

A stack dump would be nice. In low level content where I don’t have to heal, I’ve reached the point of dropping Soil randomly and using random Lustrates on an almost full HP tank and it just... feels really bad to do.

Any reason why you think it's 100% certain they won't change it back? I've actually been pretty confident in the contrary, that they will change it back so you can use it out of combat. In the ex primals and the new normal mode raids, having it be combat only is fine, I guess. I'd rather it not be, but I can deal with it. In dungeons though, aetherflow being combat only is extremely annoying.

If you Look at the changes they made (short of DNC) they've been meaning to keep all ressources in combat. Several reasons for this but it's easier balance, avoids having to wait on people in between pulls etc.. It would be incredibly surprising if they went back over this for one class. The other reason is that it isn't a problem at all.

For dungeons you should be casting bio during the pull so you can generate your stacks and excog the tank while you run along (Tank should have a pre pull addlo). You can also recitation > excog out of combat fyi. Most dungeons are 2 pulls (wall to wall) then boss. At the end of the first pull you can just use dissipation for 3 stacks going forward. AF should be almost off cooldown so you effectively have 6 stacks going into your second pull. The fairy is generally back around the time the tank settles with all the mobs.

The only issue with AF out of combat is that we can no longer run alongside the tank out of combat for natural mana regen and the recent change to AoW kinda covers this. So all is good.