Is lucid dreaming good?

I, ask you (the community) if you feel like lucid dreaming should be cut with the 6.0 expansion. IMO its not engaging and interesting to use an ability on cool down just have MP. It could be removed and MP cost and natural regen MP change to no other effect then one button every minute lost.

Its time we let this ability go into the graveyard of old skills so we may have better and more interesting skills to use.

I think it is fine to keep personally - I like that you keep your MP management tool as part of your rotation.
It is however becoming less and less interesting.

Its 2.0 equivalent was great for enmity reduction, especially as WHM but now that enmity is a non-issue and MP is also almost a non-issue, there is clearly less of a need for it.
I would prefer making raw heals more costly and keep a MP management tool on cool-down.

It's mainly useful for recovery after a raise, or after raising several other people in succession. Especially as a red mage, since we have no other mana recovery in our kit.

Yes I use it all the time. It's not going anywhere I'm sure from a developer perspective.

It's pretty damn useful. I suppose I wouldn't mind if all the classes got stronger MP regen skills to phase LD's need out, but that's hardly a necessary thing. It's fine.

Watch it get replaced by BLMs Manafont when that gets moved to role actions in 6.0

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

Watch it get replaced by BLMs Manafont when that gets moved to roe actions in 6.0

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I would personally rather have manafont to be honest, or both.

We really need to stop having the mentality of "x ability is boring because we press it on cooldown, remove it" or we'll have no toolkit left.

Look at the forum posts we've had so far. Consolidate combos to 1 button. Things we press on cooldown are bad. Melee positionals are bad. Dps shouldn't have any utility because tanks/healers need stuff to do. Dps shouldn't have any self heal. Ogcd heals are bad. Gcd heals we don't use often are bad too. Remove role abilities they're boring.

They've gutted emnity management this expansion to make it easier and we just keep going, then next thing it's:

...."Enix why are classes so boring now wtf?"

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Originally Posted by Liam_Harper

We really need to stop having the mentality of "x ability is boring because we press it on cooldown, remove it" or we'll have no toolkit left.

Look at the forum posts we've had so far. Consolidate combos to 1 button. Things we press on cooldown are bad. Melee positionals are bad. Dps shouldn't have any utility because tanks/healers need stuff to do. Dps shouldn't have any self heal. Ogcd heals are bad. Gcd heals we don't use often are bad too. Remove role abilities they're boring.

They've gutted emnity management this expansion to make it easier and we just keep going, then next thing it's:

...."Enix why are classes so boring now wtf?"

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To be fair i am pretty sure i seen some topics already about that last one or fairly close to it lol. I think that it isnt about the cool down, but moreso how interactive the cd is perse. Lucid Dreaming is a slow recovery mp tool, that i am guessing gets its (unintended)most uses right after being resurrected(held onto) or in prolonged fights when players look down and realize their mp is looking kinda low - while i am certain the main use of it is to be burnt on cd for some jobs as soon as it comes up(artificial padding for what piety does but now its not a caster stat so) to prevent going OoM, To be more blunt, i would be shocked to see anyone complain if Raging Strikes became cross role all over the board.

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Originally Posted by Liam_Harper

We really need to stop having the mentality of "x ability is boring because we press it on cooldown, remove it" or we'll have no toolkit left.

Look at the forum posts we've had so far. Consolidate combos to 1 button. Things we press on cooldown are bad. Melee positionals are bad. Dps shouldn't have any utility because tanks/healers need stuff to do. Dps shouldn't have any self heal. Ogcd heals are bad. Gcd heals we don't use often are bad too. Remove role abilities they're boring.

They've gutted emnity management this expansion to make it easier and we just keep going, then next thing it's:

...."Enix why are classes so boring now wtf?"

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SE literally have been trimming skills to avoid button float and this is taking up room for better skills. They have made it clear they have a ideal max button cap they will maintain. The Dev could and should do better than this. Like even Manafont is even a better skill than LD.

lucid dreaming is perfectly fine as is.

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Originally Posted by Bsrking5

SE literally have been trimming skills to avoid button float and this is taking up room for better skills. They have made it clear they have a ideal max button cap they will maintain. The Dev could and should do better than this. Like even Manafont is even a better skill than LD.

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Actually no. Lucid Dreaming restores gradually up to 3500 MP, Manafont restores 3000 MP instantly. Ergo, they serve different roles. Removing one in favor of the other also means that the devs have to go back and rework Black Mage so as to accommodate the fact that a job skill is now a role skill by giving the Black Mage a new job skill that also relates to Black Mage's MP. OR the alternative being Black Mage just doesn't get a level 30 Job skill if the devs don't want to actually fix the void that is created in this manner.

The better alternative would be to simply buff the potency of Lucid Dreaming so it gradually restores more MP.

Is any weapon skill or ability even useful?
Just drop them all in 6.0 and have enemies HP deplete automatically.

It's a fairly boring skill tbh. I would prefer something more.... tactical? But I'm not a designer. I usually just press it once my MP goes lower than 60% and... that's it.

Back when it reduced enmity, it was a bit more tactical, sorta.
But that was in SB when tanking was good and everyone had to manage their enmity.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

Back when it reduced enmity, it was a bit more tactical, sorta.
But that was in SB when tanking was good and everyone had to manage their enmity.

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I know, right? sigh
I don't have anything against it, but I wouldn't mind some spicing up. But that could be said about a lot of changes 5.0 brought. Looking at you AST or tanks or, heck, healing in general.

I need it as a red mage

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Originally Posted by Chasingstars

Actually no. Lucid Dreaming restores gradually up to 3500 MP, Manafont restores 3000 MP instantly. Ergo, they serve different roles. Removing one in favor of the other also means that the devs have to go back and rework Black Mage so as to accommodate the fact that a job skill is now a role skill by giving the Black Mage a new job skill that also relates to Black Mage's MP. OR the alternative being Black Mage just doesn't get a level 30 Job skill if the devs don't want to actually fix the void that is created in this manner.

The better alternative would be to simply buff the potency of Lucid Dreaming so it gradually restores more MP.

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This is how I know you aren't thinking about in term of engagement and design. Its MP gains isn't the issue, its how it works with everything else in the jobs. Which is it doesnt have any interaction with anything else basically.

Manafont as it is now can be used a dps gain, or wasted if at full mp(or in ice form) or before ice spells are free to cover a MP mess up.

Its basically the devs saying casters need to take a nap because its too easy, heck thats what the name implies. Thats not very WOL to nap in the middle of battle, thats warrior of darkness talk!

No, I don't think it's good, but it's not really a Lucid Dreaming problem. It's an MP problem. MP as a resource could be made more interesting. It is most interesting on jobs like DRK, which more or less treat it like another job gauge but at least it feels exciting to have.

I do think, if anything, maybe Lucid Dreaming should be a trait that activates when you yourself are revived to give you MP over time, but not immediately. I think MP costs should be taken off of really garbage things like Cure 1, and the basic healer attack spells should either not cost MP but perhaps even restore it. Then MP costs should be on some of the oGCD abilities, based on their power, cooldown, etc. Every expansion they keep adding more and more and more free healing which is just stunting the merit of MP, when instead MP could be just like CD time as a lever to balance things.

RDM should just not use it for attack spells and have it for their support stuff or something. It feels stupid to be using Lucid Dreaming just to recuperate the MP I've spent on the offence.

This kind of feels like a troll post.

It's an okay skill, but it depends on when it's being used, casual content, hard-core, low-level, high-level, it varies. For instance SCH use to have high MP costs since it had the best MP management, but because of the changes that were made, their MP management is the lowest now, especially at early levels, where Aetherflow use to be. So having Lucid Dreaming supplements that change. AST use to have MP issues, but with the recent card changes it's like they over tuned it. For the most part the skill is acceptable, but if you think about it, it can highlight a few alterations that SE could stand to change. Like what skills should be considered role actions, looking at you Sleep, and an introduction to role traits. Though I'm guessing having job specific traits are easier to code.

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Originally Posted by Liam_Harper

We really need to stop having the mentality of "x ability is boring because we press it on cooldown, remove it" or we'll have no toolkit left.

Look at the forum posts we've had so far. Consolidate combos to 1 button. Things we press on cooldown are bad. Melee positionals are bad. Dps shouldn't have any utility because tanks/healers need stuff to do. Dps shouldn't have any self heal. Ogcd heals are bad. Gcd heals we don't use often are bad too. Remove role abilities they're boring.

They've gutted emnity management this expansion to make it easier and we just keep going, then next thing it's:

...."Enix why are classes so boring now wtf?"

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Personally like the idea of combining certain things but only so much in that it means adding new things. Like sure you can collapse most combos down, but if it means pressing less interesting patterns on the keyboard with no gain then.. eh.. didn't seem like that needed to be done. But if you say make spells that clearly stack or are bound in a clear strict hierarchal order of operation relationship combine so then you can add more new interesting spells.. sounds like a good deal.

Also depends on if a job has a lot of buttons that they have to press all of them or if they have a lot of buttons and only press some of them. Like Paladin has a few situational skills that you'll not be pressing 24/7 (you don't clemency or cover on cooldown for example).

I guess ultimately it comes to 'feel'. Like you might be able to turn a job into 5 skills but that would probably feel really boring, to many at least. But a job with 30 buttons that could have a really cool new skill, please do combine some stuff then.

There is also perhaps that concept that some jobs should be a bit more complex and others a bit simpler so you have different jobs for different folks.

Like to me I don't think every melee needs a positional, there could be other cool things to do, but I certainly believe it makes an interesting mechanic that some melee should have to consider at least.

I don't think we're disagreeing, or at least it's not obvious to me that we would, but just wanted to expand on the idea that while we could make extremely condensed versions of every job in as few buttons as possible doesn't mean we should and more that the feeling of play and as well the variety of play styles might demand that some jobs are condensed and others maybe should be less condensed.

I know your point was more on "if on cooldown = bad" is not a good outlook, but just wanted to say sometimes condensing is good :p.

Also.. I wouldn't mind if role abilities take a hike and each job gets something more in line with their own identity. You might still very well have 'provoke' on each tank but that it might have a slight flare, animation, name, and general identity I find kind of cool. There are ways to add twists to the skill without making it so one tank's variant is garbage fire compared to another during the more demanding of balance sav / ex / ultimate content.

Sure every tank should have a CD for reducing damage but it would be nice if they're not all exactly the same lol. So to me I see role actions as being very easy to balance / set expectation.. but just seems to be the least exciting solution.

tl;dr- I'm all for condensing skills and removing role actions so long as new exciting mechanics and spells replace the new empty space.

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Originally Posted by Shougun

Sure every tank should have a CD for reducing damage but it would be nice if they're not all exactly the same lol. So to me I see role actions as being very easy to balance / set expectation.. but just seems to be the least exciting solution.

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I think they've honestly done a fair bit here.

WAR stands out as a tank with it's above par regenerative mitigation, PLD has it's support knight fantasy (even if clemency is really not used, cover/intervention exist), DRK has TBN & Dark Mind to set it apart and GNB has a really decent mixture.

There are nuances that make some better than others at things at a high end (PLD's lack of inbuilt sustain on it's combos makes it worse at holding a boss) but there is usually give and take where the tank with a weakness gets a strength to help counter this (PLD has situationally the best immunity, amazing flexibility in it's ranged dps phase and works as an OT who only occasionally holds the boss).

I think if they develop these distinct flavors much more we'll wind up with two main tanks and two off tanks even more than what we see now, and then the complaints will just be "why are the main tanks so similar" and the like. Right now at least tanks as a whole still have some variety left kinda.

Now healers.... x_x

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Originally Posted by Veis_Alveare

I think they've honestly done a fair bit here.

WAR stands out as a tank with it's above par regenerative mitigation, PLD has it's support knight fantasy (even if clemency is really not used, cover/intervention exist), DRK has TBN & Dark Mind to set it apart and GNB has a really decent mixture.

There are nuances that make some better than others at things at a high end (PLD's lack of inbuilt sustain on it's combos makes it worse at holding a boss) but there is usually give and take where the tank with a weakness gets a strength to help counter this (PLD has situationally the best immunity, amazing flexibility in it's ranged dps phase and works as an OT who only occasionally holds the boss).

I think if they develop these distinct flavors much more we'll wind up with two main tanks and two off tanks even more than what we see now, and then the complaints will just be "why are the main tanks so similar" and the like. Right now at least tanks as a whole still have some variety left kinda.

Now healers.... x_x

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Certainly everything in moderation :p. I want to stress I was talking about role actions though, like not "sentinel vs vengeance" but like Rampart. The tanks are in a pretty nice spot in where you can play any tank you want yet they have a different vibe from each other in terms of play.

On role actions though- Rampart is the exact same name, animation, and stats for all tanks. Sentinel and Vengeance while preeeeettttyyyy similar still differ in some ways (obviously vengeance being better here, but those differences add flare to each job while not being 'unbalance-able'). Other skills like that differ sometimes more (like clemency vs aurora vs nascent flash). I would prefer that all the role actions get parsed into their jobs, even if they end up being preeettttyy similar. That's all.

So like lets say Low Blow, the stun for each tank, rather Paladin just keeps Shield Bash (with some changes for balance), Dark Knight gets Low Blow, Warrior gets Threatening Shout, and Gun Breaker gets Sundog (or something lol). Each stun while roughly offering some similar concepts would have their own twists, sometimes that'd just be name and animation other times it would be more. Like for each you could imagine twists that make them similar in the pinch scenarios that demand closer balance yet in a general aspect have their own sort of flare (like the tank's cures vs the tank's dashes, etc).

Even in the most bland case scenario we're talking tank's ranged attacks (Shield Toss vs Tomahawk vs Unmend vs Lightning Shot). Would you honestly prefer that all the tanks have the same ranged attack (via a role action)? I think most would say no. Even though it's pretty much literally the same spell cross the tanks, it's at least better that the spell fits the job "better". But you could likely imagine some light 'seasoning' to the ranged moves that doesn't do too much beyond some flavor (perhaps some nice niche cases, but designed in such ways that those cases don't destroy the important balance of end game content).

I understand role actions come from the whole ex system we used to have of cross class skills but at this point I find the role system to be the appendage that just lowers identity and being a transparently budget friendly solution to balance (don't have to make new skills). In the truest form of the cross system it was like having a sub job, pretty cool but very hard to balance. At this point it's non-optional sharing, role system is just the low development cost abilities SE gets to hand out. Maybe somewhere in there is the argument that "if it's not called provoke for all jobs you wont know to provoke" but that sounds a bit sad lol- might as well say all tank stances should be called the same else tanks wont know to turn it on to tank. At the point a tank doesn't know to turn on their tank stance because it wasn't called Iron Will on their Warrior I think they were a lost cause to playing their job right anyways. . . . XD.

So to be clear I don't support removing role actions because I just want less things I get to do, no.. I am for removing them so jobs can get spells that better fit their identities, even if it's just very superficial thematics, and in the lucky opportunities that they can add flare to each skill then even better (so a the superifical gain would be ranged tank attacks, meanwhile the more different examples would be like tank dashes or cures).

All depend on whether you want your healers to add to the DPS numbers..

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Originally Posted by Chasingstars

Actually no. Lucid Dreaming restores gradually up to 3500 MP, Manafont restores 3000 MP instantly. Ergo, they serve different roles. Removing one in favor of the other also means that the devs have to go back and rework Black Mage so as to accommodate the fact that a job skill is now a role skill by giving the Black Mage a new job skill that also relates to Black Mage's MP. OR the alternative being Black Mage just doesn't get a level 30 Job skill if the devs don't want to actually fix the void that is created in this manner.

The better alternative would be to simply buff the potency of Lucid Dreaming so it gradually restores more MP.

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Black Mage doesn't use Lucid Dreaming at all, it's a dead skill. That's why they have Manafont.
If they axed Lucid Dreaming and made Manafont a role skill, then BLM wouldn't change at all, except they'd regard it as making room for a new skill, which it's bound to get in the next expansion.

While they do function differently (the whole reason why BLM can't use it) the end result is pretty much the same, for other jobs, the difference is just when you use it.
You want to use Lucid Dreaming when you get to about 50% MP, give or take, basically so that you don't waste the MP by being too high, and you don't risk running out before you've recovered enough by being too low. Manafont as an instant on-demand MP boost instead of a regen would simply change your decision into "use it at low MP" instead of "use it at medium MP".

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Originally Posted by Shougun

Certainly everything in moderation :p. I want to stress I was talking about role actions though, like not "sentinel vs vengeance" but like Rampart. The tanks are in a pretty nice spot in where you can play any tank you want yet they have a different vibe from each other in terms of play.

On role actions though- Rampart is the exact same name, animation, and stats for all tanks. Sentinel and Vengeance while preeeeettttyyyy similar still differ in some ways (obviously vengeance being better here, but those differences add flare to each job while not being 'unbalance-able'). Other skills like that differ sometimes more (like clemency vs aurora vs nascent flash). I would prefer that all the role actions get parsed into their jobs, even if they end up being preeettttyy similar. That's all.

So like lets say Low Blow, the stun for each tank, rather Paladin just keeps Shield Bash (with some changes for balance), Dark Knight gets Low Blow, Warrior gets Threatening Shout, and Gun Breaker gets Sundog (or something lol). Each stun while roughly offering some similar concepts would have their own twists, sometimes that'd just be name and animation other times it would be more. Like for each you could imagine twists that make them similar in the pinch scenarios that demand closer balance yet in a general aspect have their own sort of flare (like the tank's cures vs the tank's dashes, etc).

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We had exactly this in HW. I honestly dont know why rampart was put in, except for WAR since foresight was their skill, and arguably worse. Shadowskin for drk was basically rampart but looked and sounded cooler. Low blow (drks stun at launch)had a chance to refill on a parry, warrior had brutal swing, and paladin had a gcd stun, and not 2 stuns like they do now, for whatever reason outside oGCD timing is way better for a stun than a gcd in the middle of a combo but they could just make shield bash like low blow and no need for a cross role skill at all. Provoke is literally the only skill they needed to give tanks initially, which forced them to make gld their secondary class for the job. Arms length is pretty good though, it could stay definitely as only pld had bulwark and neither tank had anything like that barring WAR holmgang.

TL;DR - I got no idea why they did what they did for many(not all) cross role skills. They often contradict themselves, by just making more work for themselves For instance, renaming Shield Oath to Iron Will, when they didnt change other tanks stances names or sound effects, while basically making them what they are(removing the damage penalty)

Edit: Correction, Iron Will was the knockback skill, Bulwark just gave a high shield block rate.

Not sure if others mentioned, but Lucid Dreaming also helps shake off enmity. I don't know if there's any other other skill that lessens enmity for healer/mage classes (though maybe that doesn't matter withtanks being able to get and hold aggro easier now).

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

You want to use Lucid Dreaming when you get to about 50% MP, give or take, basically so that you don't waste the MP by being too high, and you don't risk running out before you've recovered enough by being too low. Manafont as an instant on-demand MP boost instead of a regen would simply change your decision into "use it at low MP" instead of "use it at medium MP".

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As a healer you should be using lucid around 70-80% then on CD after. You'll lose some of the restored mp but it's literally just better to keep it rolling - especially if (on WHM specifically) this lines up with your dot refresh for the sake of weaving.

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Originally Posted by MOZZYSTAR

Not sure if others mentioned, but Lucid Dreaming also helps shake off enmity. I don't know if there's any other other skill that lessens enmity for healer/mage classes (though maybe that doesn't matter withtanks being able to get and hold aggro easier now).

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It hasn't since ShB started.

Healers without MP wouldn't really work, or you could spam Raise or AoE heals endlessly. That's something that should be limited I think. So it's fine on healers, because they need something to be able to heal if they have to raise others a lot or get raised themselves and oGCD heals are on CD.

For caster DPS, I would either give them the same treatment as other DPS by removing MP for them, and make raising need some other kind of resource maybe.
Or I would at least remove Lucid Dreaming from them and make BLM's Manafont their new MP CD, because Lucid Dreaming is useless on BLM anyway.

Generally, I would remove MP from the jobs that don't use any, and for those that use it I would like the MP bar to be able to be placed separately from the HP bar as well.

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Originally Posted by Limonia

Healers without MP wouldn't really work, or you could spam Raise or AoE heals endlessly. That's something that should be limited I think. So it's fine on healers, because they need something to be able to heal if they have to raise others a lot or get raised themselves and oGCD heals are on CD.

For caster DPS, I would either give them the same treatment as other DPS by removing MP for them, and make raising need some other kind of resource maybe.
Or I would at least remove Lucid Dreaming from them and make BLM's Manafont their new MP CD, because Lucid Dreaming is useless on BLM anyway.

Generally, I would remove MP from the jobs that don't use any, and for those that use it I would like the MO bar to be able to be placed separately from the HP bar as well.

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Wrong thread, but hey I got that one too. Feel free to post about that there.

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Originally Posted by Limonia

Healers without MP wouldn't really work, or you could spam Raise or AoE heals endlessly. That's something that should be limited I think. So it's fine on healers, because they need something to be able to heal if they have to raise others a lot or get raised themselves and oGCD heals are on CD.

For caster DPS, I would either give them the same treatment as other DPS by removing MP for them, and make raising need some other kind of resource maybe.
Or I would at least remove Lucid Dreaming from them and make BLM's Manafont their new MP CD, because Lucid Dreaming is useless on BLM anyway.

Generally, I would remove MP from the jobs that don't use any, and for those that use it I would like the MO bar to be able to be placed separately from the HP bar as well.

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I'm against removing MP from anyone. I'd much rather jobs that currently don't use MP gained something that does use it. E.g.
DRG: Dragon Sight continually drains MP while it's active. Lifesurge regenerates a load of MP.
MNK: Anatman drains MP while active.
DNC: Improvisation drains MP while being used and Curing Waltz costs 1000 MP.
Second Wind costs 500 MP

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

I'm against removing MP from anyone. I'd much rather jobs that currently don't use MP gained something that does use it. E.g.

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I would really like this if were implemented nicely. For some jobs, you would need to press your buttons to maintain your rotation, or you wouldn't be able to refresh the MP you need, like with BLM, PLD and DRK. But after they removed TP I don't think something like this will come... the job gauges are kind of the replacement for it, so instead of MP being a dead stat for most jobs, I'd rather they remove them.

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Originally Posted by Bsrking5

Wrong thread, but hey I got that one too. Feel free to post about that there.

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Why is this the wrong thread exactly? I wrote about why Lucid Dreaming isn't bad on healers (as a response to others talking about healers/MP), why it is for BLM, how I would remove it from casters because of that, and some random idea about MP as an extra. It's actually more off topic to point out that this is the wrong thread for it. But feel free to point it out to like 70% of the posters here.

But hey, Lucid Dreaming is not useless other than on BLM, because it refreshes your MP, which you need to cast.

Of course you could remove it and have other skills or natural MP regen instead. But healers need something to refresh them on demand.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

Back when it reduced enmity, it was a bit more tactical, sorta.
But that was in SB when tanking was good and everyone had to manage their enmity.

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You mean when raiding had forced party comps because without Ninja Smokescreen the healers would get autoed to death after a heal check?

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Originally Posted by SnowVix

You mean when raiding had forced party comps because without Ninja Smokescreen the healers would get autoed to death after a heal check?

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If I had a dollar for every time my NIN Shadewalkered me and Smokescreened our WAR during god kefka I would have like... several dollars. It was funny the first time but every time after ughhhhh.

We could accept that not all actions are designed to be equally useful at all levels of play and in all situations?

For me, Lucid Dreaming is the "Oh crap" button. I forget about it when I'm with a good group and it's not needed. I'm thankful for it when I'm with a bad group and those OH CRAP moments are happening on a regular basis. It's great if I'm soloing something while leveling as a healer so I can spam my DPS abilities without dropping my MP to zero.

It's perfectly fine for actions to have situational uses. Do you complain that Interject and Head Graze are useless most of the time, or are you happy you have them on those infrequent occasions they are useful?

Lucid Dreaming is fine for what it is - a tool ready to be used when there is need for it.

It's useful, but boring. With a longer CD and enmity reduction there was a least a little bit of a choice to be made about how and when to use it. Now it's just another button you press every 60 seconds.

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Originally Posted by Veis_Alveare

If I had a dollar for every time my NIN Shadewalkered me and Smokescreened our WAR during god kefka I would have like... several dollars. It was funny the first time but every time after ughhhhh.

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I say this as someone with a great deal of enjoyment gained from watching their videos, but some people take NEST videos as the way they should play, ignoring that these are a group of friends who intentionally do blind prog and who intentionally do stuff like that for the entertainment value (both to themselves and the wider viewing audience).

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

We could accept that not all actions are designed to be equally useful at all levels of play and in all situations?

For me, Lucid Dreaming is the "Oh crap" button. I forget about it when I'm with a good group and it's not needed. I'm thankful for it when I'm with a bad group and those OH CRAP moments are happening on a regular basis. It's great if I'm soloing something while leveling as a healer so I can spam my DPS abilities without dropping my MP to zero.

It's perfectly fine for actions to have situational uses. Do you complain that Interject and Head Graze are useless most of the time, or are you happy you have them on those infrequent occasions they are useful?

Lucid Dreaming is fine for what it is - a tool ready to be used when there is need for it.

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For me its if a fight last 13 minutes and 12 seconds, well I pressed it 13 times, doesn't matter if the group is doing well or poorly. Nothing really effects how often I use it.

Interject and head graze are fine, the devs just need to add more occasions when its useful. The changes to silence just need to be more emphasized with future patches/expansion. It used to be quite bad in different ways but I like how the devs change it to its current state. This is why silence isnt commonly needed in older content.