I hate Eos

[NegativeS]

Not because she's annoying or bad or anything, she's a perfectly serviceable co-healer when I actually remember to call her back to my side after a boss fight.

But, I feel that the existence of Eos is one of the biggest pain points that has led SCH down its current doomed path.

SCH has a bit of an identity crisis, once being mainly known as the "knowledgeable military strategist" healer. Whoever has their hands on it now is trying to turn it into the "some Au Ra DRK's healer girlfriend" healer, but hasn't yet been given the go-ahead to gut it's legacy abilities in favor of WHM-but-shields.

"Ah, this class has a faerie companion, this means that it should have more traditional healer motifs!
Ah, these traditional healer motifs are clashing with the arcanistry motifs! Let's add even more!
Ah, what's that? SCH needs new abilities for DT? Well, they have a faerie, so let's let them turn into a faerie! Paycheck please!"
-Current class designer for SCH who has never touched SCH in their life

If the pet from the start was, say, some sort of flying book familiar, I highly doubt we'd be in this predicament. But the narrative was lost, and now we're losing the main appeal that SCH had in the first place.

Honestly, if I could /egiglamour the Seraph into a Giga-Carbuncle, I would. Eos, Selene, Seraph, etc. were endearing in the beginning, but now the faerie stuff has outstayed its welcome. Let me be a Nymian military strategist. If I wanted to sprout wings and be a shiny special angel boy... well, I'd be playing World of Warcraft.