Quote Originally Posted by Absurdity View Post
Short answer: Yes.


Long answer: Since they removed the only useful features from the fairy with ShB, the ability to use any fairy ability at any time regardless of your own GCD, the ability to put barriers on your fairy and deploy from it and the ability to force Embrace on a target of your choosing, I would absolutely be fine with getting rid of it.

These features atleast gave the fairy it's own unique interactions, now you're literally just getting "aesthetics" in exchange for bad gameplay and heals that only do 75% of what the tooltip says.



The fairy is now nothing more than an oGCD but clunkier, even after the slight improvements to it's AI in EW. You could turn every ability into an oGCD for the Scholar and it would improve the gameplay.

As for Embrace, you could just make it Kardia but instead of needing to dps for the heal it would be an infinite regen, on a target of your choosing, that heals for 135 cure potency (or 180 potency since we finally stop paying a fairy tax) every 3 seconds.
Have to disagree there that it would only be an improvement.
Fairy placement offers a unique advantage during light party/ pair/ spread mechanics that you wouldn't have if all heals were centered on the SCH. Things like placing Seraph mid during arrows on p2s, FoF on p3s and CC on p4s is so much better than other tools, same for light party splits on p5s.