A question for SCH mains and enjoyers

[Renathras]

Just gonna focus on these bits

- It's not flimsy, it's reality. That it's largely irrelevant doesn't change the fact if a Tank doesn't hit any button but Provoke on CD, they will not maintain threat. It's kind of like noting that a SGE spamming Dosis IS healing because of how Kardia works. Dosis is a healing spell. So is Assize. The argument here is that encounter design/combat mechanics have changed, but perhaps they should not have.

- "It gives options?" How does "You can only use AF on ED" "give us options"? Only being able to use one ability isn't an option in any definition. Now, if you mean "you can use Soil and Excog and such without a damage loss", the equally valid and probably better solution would be to just remove Energy Drain and increase Broil's potency to make up for it. Upping Broil's potency by 10 or 15 would accomplish this, and now you have the options of what to use AF on. Alternatively, we could remove AF as a resource, have Faerie Gauge generate 30 every 1 min when you press the AF button. Now you don't need an "AF dump" since it can stack to 100, meaning you have over 3 minutes to use stacks, and now you actually want to use AFFG abilities. That's both less clunk and achieves the same goal in a better way. (Also, you can call what I think is fun and engaging "boring", but "clunky"? The only one of my proposals that could at all be clunky MIGHT be the SGE one. And ironically, that's more what most of you guys would prefer it be over what it is today...)

- Then make it something else? Miasma an instant cast GCD with a 20 sec CD that does Boil + 100 potency of damage and stacks to 3. There, I fixed the problem for you. Alternatively, if you prefer, we could make it a instant cast GCD with a 20 sec duration DoT that does a total Broil + 100 potency of damage. Either one achieves the same basic goal and does so more efficiently and more logically.

EDIT:

Agreed with this, though:

Very 50/50 on whether they hit or miss from what I've seen over the years, which means that on average, one of the two out of DRG or AST is gonna slap, and one's gonna be awful. And since we know SE does not have any healer mains on the design team, I know which I'm expecting to be the stinker