I do have some feedback regarding SCH, granted I also raised it back in 2019 during ShB's media tour, so it should still be relevant here.
1. Please allow back the usage of Aetherflow out of combat.
It kinda feels awful in all kinds of contents, but it's especially true during dungeons. Not being able to prepare Aetherflow stacks during mob packs because you're considered "out of combat" feels bad to play. I understand there were some complains about waiting a minute between pulls in savage, but considering DNC and AST still have to wait some time to get ready, I feel this was unnecessary. A simple fix for this would be giving us the stacks every time you enter an instance, or wipe. That way, you wouldn't have to restrict it out of combat, and there wouldn't be any wait associated to it at the start.
2. Please allow us to use the pet bar to do fairy actions again.
The pet management is what really brought me to the job, and the main reason why I did stick to the game as hard as I did back in HW. Being able to do two things at once was what defined SCH for me, and where I got engaged as a healer the most.
To put it simply, fairy ghosting has been a thing since the job ever came out back in 2.0. While it wasn't ever perfect, the actions weren't getting on CD until they were actually used.
With Shadowbringers, came the worst that could have happened regarding it : Tying the fairy actions to a consumable oGCD. Now, you can't even spam the button in order to make it work. If Eos doesn't want to do it, she will not do it and you have no way of recourse. It's quite concerning not being able to rely confidently on a healing ability, on a healer job. And unfortunately, Seraph is the same, with the added lag during summoning.
I would also like to have access to manual Embraces as well. SGE basically has the Embrace macros built-in with no lag with Kardia. If this job is able to do that, I would like being able to target Embraces once again. Due to how erratic the pet AI is, Buffing Embrace won't amount to much if you can't control any of it by yourself. Overall, we already had to fight with the job system pre-shb with the lag and ghosting. SHB removed our means to fight these issues consistently. From that, I feel like our fairies have become an uncontrollable burden rather a characteristic of the job, which now eats oGCDs when you were able to dualtask them.
I don't think I would've been too upset about the lack of overall DPS actions if the main feature of the job didn't just disappear like that. I will probably still miss Bane and Eye for and Eye forever, but I guess it is what it is.


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