Thread: SCH, Energy Drain, and 6.0

Originally Posted by QooEr

emergency tactics exists, you really never rely on physick for anything unless youre super low level, and even then its a stretch. even in big pulls after you run out of absolutely everything, its adlo > physick > adlo, but to reach that point a lot of things have to have gone wrong

doom mechanics are also fine because scholar has indom, recitation and emergency tactics. and also a cohealer


i dont think deleting aetherflow would solve scholars current problems, at least from a gameplay standpoint. even removing the aetherflow opportunity cost, the biggest issue with scholars healing is it has no good actions for weaving. if scholars healing actions werent tied to a resource it would *still* be a loss to use them because ruin ii is too weak compared to broil. if the devs wanted scholars to heal more they shouldve buffed ruin 2, not broil.

Emergency Tactics is such a garbage skill, and you're still eating the massive MP cost for using it. Putting it on a 15s cooldown doesn't make up for the fact that you have to rely on several cooldowns what the other two healers can do with either one direct cooldown or a direct GCD. And, if you're using Emergency Tactics to just get to full HP, then that's an overheal you could have used on a shield since the essential healing would have given you more if you got the shield.

Originally Posted by inhaledcorn

Emergency Tactics is such a garbage skill, and you're still eating the massive MP cost for using it. Putting it on a 15s cooldown doesn't make up for the fact that you have to rely on several cooldowns what the other two healers can do with either one direct cooldown or a direct GCD.

Scholar does not have to be good at literally everything.

Originally Posted by Semirhage

Scholar does not have to be good at literally everything.

*points to AST being good at literally everything*

The reason aetherflow is like it is, is because SE keep trying to get rid of it instead of working with it as it has always been a core component of the job

really, the fairy gauge is the thing that needs deleting. That second gauge has just then..there for lack of a better term. It affects fey union and fey blessing. Fey blessing didn't used to require anything on eos, and fey union could very easily be a cooldown.

Originally Posted by Recon1o6

The reason aetherflow is like it is, is because SE keep trying to get rid of it instead of working with it as it has always been a core component of the job

really, the fairy gauge is the thing that needs deleting. That second gauge has just then..there for lack of a better term. It affects fey union and fey blessing. Fey blessing didn't used to require anything on eos, and fey union could very easily be a cooldown.

Oh, hey, remember when Greased Lightning was a core mechanic of Monk that everyone agreed was holding it back, so SE got rid of it and now people generally agree it's a better job?

Originally Posted by inhaledcorn

Oh, hey, remember when Greased Lightning was a core mechanic of Monk that everyone agreed was holding it back, so SE got rid of it and now people generally agree it's a better job?

You sure about that?
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...but-with-no-GL.

Originally Posted by Absurdity

You sure about that?
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...but-with-no-GL.

*read beyond the first post*

Yeah, actually. Drak and people beyond the first post are saying that what they have now is likely temporary just so it can function because so many skills are just going to GL maintenance. They even mentioned they don't want something like Aetherflow for Monk, so, uh, thanks for proving my point?

Originally Posted by inhaledcorn

Oh, hey, remember when Greased Lightning was a core mechanic of Monk that everyone agreed was holding it back, so SE got rid of it and now people generally agree it's a better job?

Remember when sch had aetherflow dumps other than energy drain that formed a core part of scholar's dps and healing it such as shadowflare, fester, original aetherflow and original lustrate?

Those other things sch's complained about being stripped away and losing its tactical decision making yeah, those.

Aetherflow is a much more popular and vital mechanic. Greased lightning's problem was the devs, like with healers funadmentally refusing to understand how monk plays (you keep GL up as much as you could, NEVER burn it out...so monk had 5 GL spenders because devs never tested monk or looked to see how it played)

The other point about GL was that the fight design has changed since then to be outright crippling monk and removing gl every few mechanics. The reason everyone is mixed in that thread is because 2.0 monk is square 1 which just shows how monk regressed each expansion instead of getting better