A simple change to Scholar

[Kalinas]

What is there to fix about dissipation? It’s SCH’s best designed skill

Dissipation locks you out of fairy heals, but it grants a full Aetherflow stack and gives you a buff to magic spell healing. Seems nice at first, but SCH's healing kit has three parts: the fairy and it's abilities (not spells), the actual healing spells like Adlo, Succor, and Physick, and then the Aetherflow abilities Lustrate, Indom, Excog...none of which get buffed Fey Illumination or Dissipation as those only work on magic spells. Majority of the time you will be using your Aetherflow oGCDs as they are instant heals and allow you to do other things with the GCD. In general, it's spell healing potency up buff of +20% does not make up for 30 seconds without the fairy.

Have I used it to try and save runs where a tank takes way too much unexpected damage (under geared/no cooldowns)? Yes. Does it help...not always and then I'm left with trying to spam GCD heals on them...praying for Aetherflow to come back up and for the fairy to come back.

I mean...I will say at least the devs did improve it since 3.0 when it was introduced. Back then, you had to re-summon the fairy if you used it and Summon had a 6s cast time and 20% base MP cost....so you usually used Swift Cast for it and hoped no one died while it was on cool down. The MP cost alone wasn't usually worth it if you were using the Aetherflow for anything other than DPS/Energy Drain in your opener since back then it gave you MP with some HP and you didn't need the fairy for the first 30 seconds of the fight. Shadowbringers is when the "Current fairy will return once effect expires" was added to the ability.