Statice!!! Spoiler warning if you haven’t finished variant

[SweetPete]

I absolutely adore this fun goth fairy. To know that she was once a scholar’s fairy had me in awe. I just couldn’t stop smiling. Scholar’s my main job and I can’t see myself dropping it anytime soon. Anyway, just have a question for you other scholar mains or just scholar players.

Would a fairy that focuses on pure dps work for scholar? Maybe an ability to permanently summon another fairy alongside Eos to focus on dps. Could that work? Would it be to powerful?

I guess I just wanna know if it’s something that can be implemented without making scholar OP.

Thanks,

[GrayLowell]

It won't be possible in the current state of the game, unless made mandatory/the only choice you can make. And even if it's made a 1m/2m CD, the damage will be balanced around it anyway

[Szylver]

Add a Dot that works with the fairy gauge. If you cast on allies it heals and if you target an enemy it will do damage to them.

[Icecylee]

Is it likely? No.

Possible? Honestly, I don't see why not other than the devs sort of digging their heels in on the current state of heals. Assuming we left eos and is and simply gave selene a gun I think it could work? probably wanna tweek potencies a bit, but if you were missing all the free opportunity costless healing you got from the current fairy, you'd theoretically want to actually spend your aetherflow on heals instead of energy drain, and might even need to do the occasional GCD heal, which would ideally make up some of the difference in dps. At the very least it wouldn't be as polarizing as using or not using cleric stance was, and that absolutely worked up until they removed it from the game.

[Calysto]

The new lore kinda contradict what was established about SCH fairies ; and since she's really pixie-like probably create a link between ACN and the pixies of the first...

Is it me or are they planning something ? just a few weeks back, we also got some ACN lore drop from Margrat quests.
The final boss/quest looks like a hint/red herring for PUP

[fulminating]

Ugh

Can’t they just leave the first’s pixies alone to be their own thing? Creepy souls of dead children shouldn’t be used as weapons.

[Kuroka]

Ugh

Can’t they just leave the first’s pixies alone to be their own thing? Creepy souls of dead children shouldn’t be used as weapons.

Welcome to the world of FF xD

[Renathras]

Welcome to the world of FF xD

FF?

I thought that was NeiR?

Haven't ever played the games but did look into their lore a while back. Unless I horribly misunderstood it, Grimoire Wiess (and the others) were basically a lot (and I mean...a LOT...) of dead children's souls sacrificed and combined to create magic after the white powder/plague at the end of Drakengard somewhat ruptured the planes and introduced the possibility for magic on Earth. Lots of experiments were conducted, often on children (I guess vitality of soul and bodies able to heal quickly as well as less strong willed/stubborn than adults?), resulting in several outcomes, some of which were the weapons (like Emil and his sister), and others being the Grimoires, made out of many children's souls to allow the use of magic in Humans that could use them.

...perhaps I'm misremembering?

Though I'm kinda with Fulminating that it's...creepy.

Hadn't done this until tonight and just did one path. I heard "Nym". Now I'm interested.

I didn't care for another "frolic" "vacadventure" excursion (the reason I didn't bother going back to Rokon, that and I never cared much for Hingashi lore anyway), but now that they've mentioned Nym and thousand year old ruins...my interest is piqued. I know what I'm getting my weekly tomes with next week...

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...ahem, now then, OP:

I can't imagine them doing a "heal or damage" Faerie based on how they have the combat system. The Devs ALREADY don't like Energy Drain as it is (and likewise, a lot of SCH players don't, either; even many who like the concept think the pitiful damage difference is stupid). I can't really see them going more down that route with the present combat system in place. And even if they changed up the combat system and healer gameplay...probably not. The game is designed for rigid combat roles (RDM and SMN are the two Jobs that buck this trend, and both have generated all kinds of balance arguments and complaints), so if they did give you damage, it would be token and the rest of your abilities balanced around it.

New level 90 ability: Automaton Quee- er, uh..."damaging faerie!", you hit this every 2 mins and it does...30 potency of damage per tick for 30 seconds! Oh, incidentally and totally not related, Biolysis now does 30 less potency of damage per tick. No relation. That would be silly.

[Calysto]

Ugh

Can’t they just leave the first’s pixies alone to be their own thing? Creepy souls of dead children shouldn’t be used as weapons.

I guess now it could be the other way around, and sch fairies are created from dead children. Who wanted a necromancer job XD ?

Edit : give child a magical fish health and longevity, yeah, right XD

[SweetPete]

Awww so no closer to my dream of being able to permanently have 2 faeries out at once…. Darn it.