Thread: SCH, Energy Drain, and 6.0

As much as I don't want them to remove either, I would not be shocked if they removed both. IMO, I want SE to double down on aetherflow and it's offensive capabilities. I personally love that aetherflow can be used for both healing and damage, it makes you think, take a risk or play it safe. "Do I use a stack of aetherflow here for some extra damage or do I save it for a heal" etc. Yes, the game design of FFXIV doesn't always make this a problem, with things like recitation, but, a risk/reward system is NOT a bad thing on it's own, the rewards just have to be worth the risk, and currently, there's not a ton of either. And, on another note, SCH REALLY doesn't need to be dumbed down any further, they spam broil WAY too much as it is, it'd be even worse without energy drain.

That being said, yeah, 100% they're going to get rid of it. I'd also not be shocked to see them get rid of the dot because "healers too stoopid for buttons, TAKE THEM ALL AWAY" - Yoshi P. Also ready for fairy gauge to be just as useless as it's always been because the dev team cannot get it through their skulls that any mechanic that is tied purely to healing is a mechanic that WILL fail. SCHs just don't complain about the fairy gauge because aetherflow is their main mechanic, take that away and you learn real quick that the fairy gauge is worthless.