Quote Originally Posted by Llana_Virren View Post
That's why you give Devotion to the PLDs and DRKs in your party <_<

Also, no, most WHMs have admitted to unlocking Protectra V because it "looks silly" to cast Shellra V with Protectra IV. Asthetics does not a well-thought out merit choice make.

However, if you're casting shell/protect on another party, then you're running with 2 or fewer primary healers, in which case your strategy would obviously change. For the sake of this discussion, I am not assuming that the WHM in question is the only healer in an alliance.
I'd much rather the whm accession shell V the mage party in voidwatch that never has a whm and may not have a sch. and last time I checked most VW alliances do only have 2 healers.

Also give me a serious situation in which you use devotion. It is useless in abyssea and voidwatch. Whm isn't invited to nyzul or to farm dynamis for coins either. Seriously tell me when you use it?!

The facts are that shellra V is the only merit that does anything. You can argue all you want that you are a better whm for 5/5 devotion, but its not true. If you feel like wasting strategems to protect V your pt one could even argue you are making a worse choice.