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    ty_taurus's Avatar
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    Noah Orih
    World
    Faerie
    Main Class
    Sage Lv 90
    Regarding Eos:

    One thing about Embrace and returning it to a cast time instead of being instant cast is that it will help with ghosting issues. These are an issue now because when you try to input commands within her GCD window after she's Embraced an ally, she can't cast. By restoring Embrace to a cast time, we can mitigate if not eliminate that issue. Additionally, if we give it a small Faerie Gauge cost, we can not only make the Faerie Gauge more impactful, but also restore a lot of power to Embrace as a higher source of healing outside of your kit. Absolutely, though, we do need to restore the option to allow for manual Embrace usage. There's no reason to take that option away when it was never required to begin with.

    Regarding Selene:

    Fey Spark Idea: The difference between Stun and Silence is Stun isn't exclusively used as an interrupt and can be useful for pulled enemies to enable you more time to DPS. When you're not fighting stunnable enemies, it instead acts solely as a Faerie Gauge battery, preparing you to use Eos when needed. It also creates a more pressing need to switch between the two rather than just sit on one or the other if one can heal and the other can't.
    Dusk Glow Idea: So the reason why I think adding a self MP restore to Selene would be a good replacement for Fey Wind is because we can redirect that DPS support identity into something that works for the Scholar's benefit instead. I imagine with this concept that the Scholar could have 2 additional spells:

    Meltdown
    Unaspected Damage with a potency of 400
    - MP Cost 1000

    Drown
    Unaspected damage over time with a potency of 200
    - Duration 15 seconds
    - MP Cost 1000

    The numbers here are placeholder, but get the point across. You can up your DPS by using these in place of Broil, but doing so will chew through your MP quickly. This is where Selene comes in: giving you more opportunities to make decisions with your resources. This would give the Scholar more DPS engagement as they need to decide when Meltdown and Drown are too costly to use.

    Something I want to note though regarding Fey Wind is that the more DPS utility we give to Scholar, the less selfish DPS Scholar can reasonably be allowed to have. Scholar is the only healer to originate from a DPS, and one of its biggest charms from 2.0 and 3.0 were that it was a high-offense healer to contrast against White Mage's more passive nature, and that's something I strongly want to see restored to Scholar. In order to accomplish that, I don't think we can afford to give any more utility to Scholar, and I even question whether or not giving it Chain Stratagem was more harmful than good in that regard.
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    Last edited by ty_taurus; 02-18-2021 at 06:35 PM.