What they should have done with fairies:

[Iedarus]

Uh.... Illumination is actually kinda good? Even if the extra healing isn't, the extra defense is nice.

It's Blessing that's the meme, being a weaker Indom on a longer cooldown that (previously) essentially costed the same. I don't know why you'd delete Indom just to put it on the fairy, making it weaker by default because of pet tax.

If the Fairy Gauge was like Battery and using it on Seraph just made Seraph last longer, then, y'know, I'd be fine with it. Whispering Dusk is... not great. Sure, it has uses in trash packs, but that's it. Besides, the tank should already be using Arm's Length at some point for that extra slow, so Whispering Dusk probably won't be that effective anyway.

*Sigh* I guess there really isn't much hope for Scholar then if it has to go through this many obstacles to make it feel compelling and balanced.

[Gemina]

*Sigh* I guess there really isn't much hope for Scholar then if it has to go through this many obstacles to make it feel compelling and balanced.

At least you're thinking a bit outside the box and not just asking for 3.x SCH back. I actually like your suggestion about needing to fill the Fey Gauge in order to summon Seraph. That was actually how I thought it was going to work when I saw the ability trailer for ShB. But nahhh, She's just a CD. And that is one of the biggest problem with SCH, so many interesting things they can do mechanically with the job, and they just give you a button that does it while the Fey Gauge doesn't do anything that the SCH can actually use in a wide variety of content.

This dev team says they are not sure what SCH needs, and it should be clear as day. It needs a complete overhaul. What they need to realize is that even though functionally the job is just fine, they are dismissing the enjoyable factor. For a lot of players, it just isn't fun to play.

[Iedarus]

At least you're thinking a bit outside the box and not just asking for 3.x SCH back. I actually like your suggestion about needing to fill the Fey Gauge in order to summon Seraph. That was actually how I thought it was going to work when I saw the ability trailer for ShB. But nahhh, She's just a CD. And that is one of the biggest problem with SCH, so many interesting things they can do mechanically with the job, and they just give you a button that does it while the Fey Gauge doesn't do anything that the SCH can actually use in a wide variety of content.

This dev team says they are not sure what SCH needs, and it should be clear as day. It needs a complete overhaul. What they need to realize is that even though functionally the job is just fine, they are dismissing the enjoyable factor. For a lot of players, it just isn't fun to play.

I did this with the devs' desire in mind to keep healers simple. I didn't account for Arm's length and thought that Indom was the issue based on discussions in previous patches, Lol. Regardless, if Selene could have some sort of notable debuff that worked on both trash packs and bosses, as well as have Fey Illumination work with all healing abilities, it would really help bring back Scholar's identity in a way that keeps it accessible.

[MellowMink]

I would like to see the fairies do different things again.