SCH need buffs

[Volkaj]

No, you would still use ED to dump excess stacks in this situation. All reducing ED's potency would do is lower the opportunity cost of aetherflow heals and make them more appealing while still keeping its role as an aetherflow dump. Theres also the element of combining it with Ruin II for movement scenarios to offset the damage loss of Ruin II.

You'd dump excess stacks within Biolysis windows alone (+ 1 with swiftcast) every 30s.
My point still stands that it would still be Broil + Biolysis spam ad nauseam.

Totaly agree.
This is what happen when you combine healing and dps into 1 skill or 1 resource.
You either use it for dps and throw away the heal, or keep it for healing and lose dps (WHM Assize and AST star).
In SCH case is worse because most of its healing share the same resource with ED.

Let me introduce you to GCD heals. 1 GCD, can be used for either DPS or healing. Using a GCD on healing costs DPS.
Aetherflow heals are OGCDs, but they still have an opportunity cost through weaving and ED. Using an AF stack on ED costs DPS.

Having heals with different DPS opportunity costs gives the healing kit some depth. If ED was removed or made to deal no damage, then there would be no point to get rid of excess stacks. All OGCD SCH heals would basically cost the exact same: weaving windows. Wouldn't matter if you used Sacred Soil, Indom, Whispering Dawn or Seraph. Same cost, no depth.

If not having an aetherflow dump makes the mechanic feel boring and wasteful, but having one that deals damage de-incentivizes using it for its primary purpose of healing. Then if anything the logical solution seems to be making ED cost neutral or flat out removing the damage on it, therefore minimizing the loss of dps while still giving the scholar a use for excess stacks that don't go into healing.

Primary purpose of healing? As long as there is an ED around with some DPS potency on it it has the dual purpose of dealing damage and healing. Making ED do no damage makes it useless; what's the point of burning AF stacks for just more MP?

I cannot stress enough that Aetherflow heals having a solid DPS opportunity cost is a good thing.
Heals should not all be either OGCD with zero DPS cost (save weaving) or GCD.