SCH is a mess, thematically and visually, and needs streamlining

[ty_taurus]

I can’t quote because the response is too sling and I’m on my phone.

The solution I brought up would not be as uncharitable as Aetherflow is only used for ED and nothing else. It would be about having a selection of DPS tools including new DoTs or things like Shadowflare, not just a dinky ED.

Then you add a new way to generate Fey Gauge that is manually decided and not a consequence of cooldowns, and make that your healing resource gauge.

The proposed solution I commented on suggested a barrier action with a 1 second cooldown. So in other words Lustrate but better or Lustrate but worse. Yay. We either get to turn Lustrate into a piece of vestigial bloat, or we get a button that won’t be used seriously because it’s better to just wait for Lustrate assuming you wouldn’t just use literally any other Aetherflow, and exists purely so that you can burn it when you’re overlapped on Aetherflow, but you get to feel marginally better because it’s not considered “overhealing” even if the barrier times out because it’s duration expired, or the amount of healing you saved yourself from would have just been covered by your faerie anyway.

Surely the prog tool that will have SCH’ players sobbing in church over.

[ForsakenRoe]

I can’t quote because the response is too sling and I’m on my phone.

The solution I brought up would not be as uncharitable as Aetherflow is only used for ED and nothing else. It would be about having a selection of DPS tools including new DoTs or things like Shadowflare, not just a dinky ED.

Then you add a new way to generate Fey Gauge that is manually decided and not a consequence of cooldowns, and make that your healing resource gauge.

The proposed solution I commented on suggested a barrier action with a 1 second cooldown. So in other words Lustrate but better or Lustrate but worse. Yay. We either get to turn Lustrate into a piece of vestigial bloat, or we get a button that won’t be used seriously because it’s better to just wait for Lustrate assuming you wouldn’t just use literally any other Aetherflow, and exists purely so that you can burn it when you’re overlapped on Aetherflow, but you get to feel marginally better because it’s not considered “overhealing” even if the barrier times out because it’s duration expired, or the amount of healing you saved yourself from would have just been covered by your faerie anyway.

Surely the prog tool that will have SCH’ players sobbing in church over.

The stipulation that there'd be multiple DPS Aetherflow spenders was not included in the comment I was responding to, but yeh that sounds good. Not overspending early so you have enough left for a 30s CD or such. However, since the order they come in is already kinda set in stone, would it not be easier to have Aetherflow heals stay as Aetherflow heals, and change Fey gauge into the 'DPS resource'? That way, Energy Drain can stay as the 'this is away to dump Aetherflow', perhaps give it's MP restore back (but remove it's damage) and have Fey gauge have more use than just Union. Then the issue is 'What the hell do we do with Union', since it can't really be converted over into an Aetherflow heal without it losing the ability to cancel it midchannel. Is it possible to have a 'charged action' with like, 10 charges? A 10 charge action that restores one charge per 15 seconds, and consumes a charge per tick, is that even doable in this crusty engine