In case meriting protectra V wasn't bad enough...

[Babekeke]

Then you effectively only have 9 tier II merits for WHM. People are taking the exact same amount of damage. At least Devotion does something.

When low-manning NMs in abyssea for grellow, the BLM/BRD will be very thankful of devotion, especially if you're fighting a mob that can't be aspir'd.

When you get really unlucky on procs on a VWNM like Pil and can't get your temps back, everyone's going to get short of MP.

Like Llana said, this isn't about how necessary Devotion is, it's about how ridiculously stupid and under-powered protectra 5 is! It should have a boost of at least 15 IMO to the base def before merits for it to even be worth 1/5.

[Dantedmc]

When low-manning NMs in abyssea for grellow, the BLM/BRD will be very thankful of devotion, especially if you're fighting a mob that can't be aspir'd.

If your blm is /brd (which is fine) they should be there for procs and gear their atmas appropriately. Don't really see how the blm is dying for mp with up to 20tic atma refresh as well as all of the other ways to restore mp. If this is such a big deal I guess all whms should /rdm now just for refresh to give +600mp every 10 mins when the need arises.

When you get really unlucky on procs on a VWNM like Pil and can't get your temps back, everyone's going to get short of MP.

I don't know how you run out of mp in voidwatch. 2 lucid ether IIs (500mp each), 1 lucid ether III(1000mp ), 2 mana powders, and a mana mist EVERY hq proc. devotion wouldn't really help in this situation anyway since it's party only and giving the drk mp doesn't usually life or death and the blu and blm are in the mage pt.