Presence of Mind Buff.. ?

[Pharazon]

My entire point. It is quite underwhelming. It isn't game breaking, but if they want this move to not fall under the same status as "1 Ilm Punch" then they need to do something. As it stands now, when I get my Swiftcast (I know I should have it already) Presence of Mind will be losing its spot. It just isn't worth it for 10 seconds ever 5 minutes. :/

While it may not feel like its worth the 5 minute cooldown I don't think swift cast is going to replace a move that is off the global cooldown and has a 10s duration. Even though its still a 5 minute CD its still super useful at times, like during phase 6 of Turn 4 when dreadnaughts and adds are beating on both your tanks you will be glad for it.

It would be nice if it were a bit stronger especially for the time it takes to cooldown but not using it is a mistake.

[CalvatE]

I find it pretty useful at times, but not as a 'oh crap!' button like Benediction, but rather 'things are looking sour, time to pick things up' sort of button.

[SeraphS]

yeah maybe SE will hear the WHM cries, and buff the ability

[beryuyu]

3mins would be ideal imo. I use it a lot for my holy spams in wp sr.

[Slark]

Presence of Mind and Swiftcast serve two completely different purposes.

Swiftcast does not actually help you recover if you are struggling because you still have to wait for GCD after the heal. It's mainly for insta raise, insta holy, and times where you do not have time to precast something. Swiftcast is more for utility.
Presence of Mind on the other hand, increases your HPS dramatically. If you fall behind, this cooldown very easily brings you back up to a comfortable situation, also allowing you to reapply regen easily after a sticky situation putting you in tip-top shape. PoM is more of a HPS CD/holy spamminator CD.

If you are seriously considering not putting Presence of Mind on your bars (for no real reason as you have room for both swiftcast and PoM), you are either inexperienced or you are really really foolish.
That being said, I believe the CD of PoM should be 3-3.5 minutes. It's kind of silly to look at Benediction, then look at PoM, and see that they both have the same CD. But hey, WHM's actually have it extremely good when it comes to advanced job skills. Atleast we don't have Freeze.

[Mycow8me]

IMHO This skill needs one of the following:
Smaller cooldown
Longer duration
MORE faster spell speed. Yes, MORE.

I rarely ever use this ability, in fact the only time I really do use it with a technical purpose is during titan heart phase for stone II spam and to help break the first person out. This is the only "planned" purpose. Usually if a situation suddenly turns for the worst, the last thing on my mind is going to be this ability. A precious moment to decide to use the ability and the point after having used it could be the difference between a wipe anyways. That moment could have been spent just starting a party saving AOE heal, benediction, or whatever.

[CalvatE]

IMHO This skill needs one of the following:
Smaller cooldown
Longer duration
MORE faster spell speed. Yes, MORE.

I rarely ever use this ability, in fact the only time I really do use it with a technical purpose is during titan heart phase for stone II spam and to help break the first person out. This is the only "planned" purpose. Usually if a situation suddenly turns for the worst, the last thing on my mind is going to be this ability. A precious moment to decide to use the ability and the point after having used it could be the difference between a wipe anyways. That moment could have been spent just starting a party saving AOE heal, benediction, or whatever.

Use Presence of Mind as a detterant before an incoming influx attacks.

For example when Titan begins stomping all too dramatically at quite a few intervals, pop that and you may just get off 3 or 4 Medica's.


Although, as someone who does use this skill when I can (specifically before I think things will go bad), I think it could do with a longer duration or shorter cooldown.
Not so much the quicker spell speed since we already have enough mana problems, I'd rather not use Presence of Mind and watch 4000 MP go down to 3000 in just 10 seconds with Cure I alone lol.

[OrganizationXIll]

Benediction isn't affected by Presence of Mind since it isn't affected by Spell Speed...

That said it would be nice if the recast time wasn't so high.

Actually it does. Spell Speed determines your cast AND recast times. I believe it makes the 300 second into a ~285 second timer. (Level 50 with my current gear) if we could use it twice that would be fantastic.

My whole point is that if you are a competent healer you wont need to recover until you get into the coils. AKA Presence of Mind is pretty useless for the average healer until endgame due to the outrageous cool down for the minor gain. If they simply reduced the cool down it wouldn't become overpowered, just more frequently used.

[Lecan]

My whole point is that if you are a competent healer you wont need to recover until you get into the coils.

Maybe if everyone else was an NPC and acted in only one manner. In the real world, you have tanks and dps with differing levels of gear, ability, reaction time and attention who may need a little extra healing from time to time. Going in to any situation with the mindset of "I'm so good that I don't need my toolbox, just this hammer" means everything looks like a nail.

[OrganizationXIll]

Maybe if everyone else was an NPC and acted in only one manner. In the real world, you have tanks and dps with differing levels of gear, ability, reaction time and attention who may need a little extra healing from time to time. Going in to any situation with the mindset of "I'm so good that I don't need my toolbox, just this hammer" means everything looks like a nail.

If I added "much" after recover, would it help? jk xD But seriously. In most cases, the the entire party isn't horrible. Maybe one person, but the current difficulty of the pre 50 dungeons doesn't really require it. Just a Cure II a couple of times dancing between targets and you are just fine. I have not needed Presence of Mind once and I DF Dungeon-ed my way to 50 because I can't stand FATES and I am close to friendless. If you do need it at some point, you will probably need it again in the next 5 minutes and you wont have it because of the 300 second cool down. :/