Quote Originally Posted by dezzmont View Post
I actually get the disdain for ED. I think it would be ideal if 'wasting' it was like 'wasting' a Lily in most scenarios: WHMs don't use their lilies just to get Blood Lilly unless they already used 2, and don't have a way to avoid 'wasting' them. Likewise, SCH using ED instead of heal skills sorta 'warps' what the resource is for.

I also get why a lot of SCHs don't like this too mind, that warping is in its own way good, it adds a lot of skill to SCH to know when you need to use an aetherflow to save someone for a much bigger DPS gain than using ED and forces you to really think about what heals you need. I just understand the desire for no ED because of that weird tension.
It's more that Energy Drain exists as an aetherflow dump, because people find themselves with an excess of aertherflow stacks with nothing to spend them on. It's an issue with Lilies as they don't have something other t han heals to spend on. I would say the safest time to use them is just before your next "Aetherflow" has finished its cooldown. You can either purge them into your DPS or if you need to heal in those moments, use them on that. That way you're not wasting anything not are you putting yourself at risk of having no Aetherflow stacks when you need them.