Quote Originally Posted by flowerfairy View Post
I joined in Shadowbringers and the main appeal of SCH for me was the fairy. I want to control it more so bad, playing around with your own GCD and the pet's GCD sounds so much fun. Aetherpact feels awful to use when you have to use your other cooldowns, and its feels okayish in the niche situations it's used. I don't know why they couldn't at least leave Embrace to be something you can still control the target of.



YES. Expedient 100% should've been a Selene move. I want fairies and the fey gauge to be reworked so Aetherpact is like a mini-Rouse for 10 seconds and Fey Blessing is 120s super good oGCD that costs a lot of gauge, like Eos has AoE Recitation from PVP and Selene has Expedient. Give Eos regen, magic defense and Selene shield, GCD heal buff. And also a 60s oGCD that switches Eos/Selene so you don't have to waste damage summoning them.



That's engaging design though. Placing and moving the fairy to optimal positions to hit teammates you can't reach makes you have to think. Turning the fairy into some ghost that follows you around is boring, and it's already half-turned into one anyways. Something I do hate though is that the fairy dies if you forget to call Heel and you walk far away, I wish it just teleported back to you instead.
My current thought process on SCH, in short, looks something like this:

Remove Embrace as just auto-healing and make Aetherpact something you have right away as your faerie's main source of healing. This gives you more control over who your faerie heals, and the faerie will follow whomever she's tethered to unless placed. This no longer consumes your fey gauge, and the potency is brought down to Embrace levels for balance reasons. Also, using faerie actions will not break the Aetherpact. Only manually canceling it, or the target running away from a placed faerie will break the tether.

The fey gauge instead becomes your main healing gauge, and Aetherflow is repurposed for offensive tools instead. There's no need to have two gauges that revolve around the same thing, in my mind, so splitting these two resources and enhancing both seems ideal.

Recitation changes to a GCD action that gives you 1 Aetherflow and 20 Fey Gauge on a 60 second cooldown with 2 charges that you get much earlier. In addition to specific faerie actions, you also have Feyshine and Fey Brilliance, mimicking a bit of the SMN changes while also making the transition from ACN to SCH less confusing to new players. Feyshine and Fey Brilliance change based on which faerie you have summoned. Eos enables more heal-focused actions like Indomitability while Selene enables more support actions like Eye for an Eye. These are all GCD actions that generate 1 Aetherflow and cost 20 Fey Gauge. As for separate faerie actions, Eos keeps Whispering Dawn and Fey Blessing while Selene has a new MP restoration action for you and Expedient. (The idea is MP becomes more of an actual resource and less background noise).

Your DPS actions as SCH would be:

Broil - Your standard DPS button.
Biolysis - Your instant cast DoT.
Miasmolysis - Restoring your second DoT that has a cast time.
Art of War - Your AoE, now also gives you a 5% crit buff when used for 45 seconds, making it useful in single target situations. Can still be spammed for dungeon trash.
Shadowflare - returning your DoT field that sits on a 60 second cooldown on the GCD. Also makes your next Adlo or Succor give you 1 Aetherflow.
Ruin II/Kaustra - Finally upgrading your mobility tool to something unique to SCH and not a 10 year old animation hand-me-down from SMN.

You can use Libra now to consume 1 Aetherflow which changes your DPS buttons for your next cast.

Broil becomes Fester, dealing double Broil's damage normally plus an additional 100 potency per DoT you've placed on the enemy.
Biolysis becomes Pain, a third DoT.
Miasmolysis becomes Bane for spreading your DoTs.
Art of War becomes Meltdown, an AoE of double Art of War's strength. Still grants the crit buff.
Ruin II/Kaustra becomes Rasp, dealing double Broil's damage and gives you 30 more Fey Gauge. A DPS loss over Fester but useful in a pinch if you need more healing power.
Shadowflare does not change with Aetherflow.