Tired of benediction fail

[nitram]

Heal on anticipation. Don't heal on reaction. And you will be a much better healer.

True story.

[Raestloz]

Heal on anticipation. Don't heal on reaction. And you will be a much better healer.

True story.

That's called pre-cast. Unfortunately, Benediction is for "oh shit!" and not for sustaining. If you actually predict an "oh shit!", then you're not actually a good healer. Best of all, you cannot cancel a Benediction. it's either use it or nothing

Unless you predict Mountain Buster. That's fixed.

And when you use Benediction in anticipation, it'd be like when you think Caduceus will swipe, so you pre-cast Benediction, but it doesn't so you just wasted a perfectly good magic to heal a few hundred HP. Then it does swipe and you're screwed

[CalvatE]

That's called pre-cast. Unfortunately, Benediction is for "oh shit!" and not for sustaining. If you actually predict an "oh shit!", then you're not actually a good healer. Best of all, you cannot cancel a Benediction. it's either use it or nothing

The SCH in my raid team uses Lustrate quite well as I would Benediction. It's horrible to see Benediction go off with a Lustrate, lol.

I used to compare Benediction to lustrates but someone said not to. However with the change in lustrates I wouldn't mind a lesser cooldown, to presence of mind too.

But eh my opinion doesn't matter, SE would've done something about these already if they felt they needed to be changed.

[Deceptus]

Heal on anticipation. Don't heal on reaction. And you will be a much better healer.

True story.

Anticipation is the Scholars job. Reaction is the White Mage job.

[Brises]

Heal on anticipation. Don't heal on reaction. And you will be a much better healer.

True story.

That's a good way to waste mp and generate enimity. There are times a player may have near full health and take a hit that drops them to near death. That cannot be anticipated. And I'm not going to guess and cast benediction on someone with near full health.

[sharazisspecial]

That's a good way to waste mp and generate enimity. There are times a player may have near full health and take a hit that drops them to near death. That cannot be anticipated. And I'm not going to guess and cast benediction on someone with near full health.

It would be nice if i could cancel my heals when they are near end of cast...

[VegaNovus]

Heal on anticipation. Don't heal on reaction. And you will be a much better healer.

True story.

OMG thank you, somebody that agrees, if you can feel the flow of the battle and know what is gonna happen, you can reduce your spell speed times to 0 as you will heal exactly when the person takes damage.

[JonFarron]

OMG thank you, somebody that agrees, if you can feel the flow of the battle and know what is gonna happen, you can reduce your spell speed times to 0 as you will heal exactly when the person takes damage.

While this applies to most situations, that's not what Benediction is for. It's an "oh shit" button. What happens if you're too busy running from mechanics, or end up out of range from your target because you had to dodge something, and are unable to heal for a few seconds? What if you die, and get ressed just as the other healer goes down, with the tank at 400/6000 hp? Time to cast a Cure 2 in 2 seconds? Nope, not happening *Benediction* "Tank recovered 6000 HP. Tank took 700 dmg. Tank dies" Things like this can not always be anticipated. It's frustrating as hell. In an ideal party that knows what they're doing, Benediction won't even be needed (Except for maybe Titan's mountain buster), it's designed to be the emergency skill when things go wrong.

[Aeser]

Bump.
Died to a Benediction fail again. So sick of this

[Kyomih]

OMG thank you, somebody that agrees, if you can feel the flow of the battle and know what is gonna happen, you can reduce your spell speed times to 0 as you will heal exactly when the person takes damage.

Teach me your ways so I know next time that a double crit on a Dreadnaught is incoming while I have to dodge a knight on my butt