Want healers to be more accessible? Add "Quickened Aetherflow" back in + more

[SpiralMask]

while i intensely disagree with the design direction, i can sorta see why they removed it--receiving complaints of SCH never actually using GCDs to heal with as quick and efficient as their freebies are, despite how this specifically enabled the class to both manage its suite of dots and engage with the fairy gauge mechanic (despite having only one whole action that used it). with the combat rebalance removing their dots, the need to free up yet more time to cast them was gone. which sidenote: using outsiders' perspectives to balance a class is really stupid and they should stop apparently doing that, since they've all but openly admitted that the office team doesn't particularly like/want to play healers (between content testing comments and the complete neglect of healers in LLs and articles).

of course this just further neglected the fairy gauge mechanic with the aetherflow dripfeed caused by the trait's removal, but that's okay there's still basically nothing that uses the gauge anyway!
real waste of potential if they're serious about SCH not doing damage as it's downtime activity, since managing the fairy gauge and associated skills would be an excellent way to fill their time that would've gone towards dps previously.

[Gravagar]

while i intensely disagree with the design direction, i can sorta see why they removed it--receiving complaints of SCH never actually using GCDs to heal with as quick and efficient as their freebies are, despite how this specifically enabled the class to both manage its suite of dots and engage with the fairy gauge mechanic (despite having only one whole action that used it). with the combat rebalance removing their dots, the need to free up yet more time to cast them was gone. which sidenote: using outsiders' perspectives to balance a class is really stupid and they should stop apparently doing that, since they've all but openly admitted that the office team doesn't particularly like/want to play healers (between content testing comments and the complete neglect of healers in LLs and articles).
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I definitely agree that designing healers to appeal to non-healers was a foolish move, especially considering that it was tanks who had supply shortages, not healers. Not to mention a general void of healing-focused content creators invited to interview Yoshida during times like the media tour- it felt like backlash during that time period would've been our only chance to avoid both the past year and the next year of this drought. The entire handling of this situation is just so frustrating! Like, the fact that SCH can't aetherflow outside of battle because "I don't like my group's healer making me wait, so they shouldn't be able to do that" just makes me feel like I'm being bullied for playing the job the way it's designed. Why can't SCH just have an out-of-battle exclusive button that aetherflows but freezes your cooldown at 60s?

I've wanted more uses for the fairy gauge ever since it was introduced. Was glad to see some abilities that used it in SB2, but it's certainly not enough- not with things in their current state, for sure.

The problem with your line of logic is Dissipation already rewards good play.
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I think the civil thing to do might be to agree to disagree on the point of QAF vs Dissipation. I get the impression that you're trying to tell me the advantages of Dissipation are intuitive and the disadvantages are easily dealt with, and I'm not seeing it. And you're telling me what I view as intuitive design in QAF is not great, I'm not seeing that either, and vice versa.