Does Anyone Use Medicine?

[Hitome]

Agree'd. But on the flipside, it is possible to have bad healers as well. Take myself for example, as I love running around CT shouting in /a about my rampant misuse of holy and AoE heals. Of course in real content where true effort is required, Raise is the usual cause of my oom.

Completely agree. I'm a terrible WHM, for instance, and generally would have trouble with MP management compared to my SCH. I also see the opposite side of things: the other healer has full MP while I'm sitting at 1000 MP because he isn't doing anything.

But even on SCH when I have to raise more than 5 people in an Ultima run, I'm probably going to have some mana issues unless the tanks are geared.

[Sirantha]

I also see the opposite side of things: the other healer has full MP while I'm sitting at 1000 MP because he isn't doing anything.

While I've seen this myself, don't always assume that the other healer being on next to full MP is doing nothing. I've been accused of doing nothing before due to having almost full MP during a fight because I've been getting lucky with Freecure procs and am focusing on Cure I rather than II, whereas my other healer is spamming Cure II every time a tank takes some damage. It is possible to manage your MP quite easily.

With regards to the topic, I don't find I need Ether that often. Once you learn to manage your MP, there are very few situations where I find it necessary. Though after having to Raise a bunch of people, SoS and MB will only go so far.

[Hitome]

While I've seen this myself, don't always assume that the other healer being on next to full MP is doing nothing. I've been accused of doing nothing before due to having almost full MP during a fight because I've been getting lucky with Freecure procs and am focusing on Cure I rather than II, whereas my other healer is spamming Cure II every time a tank takes some damage. It is possible to manage your MP quite easily.

With regards to the topic, I don't find I need Ether that often. Once you learn to manage your MP, there are very few situations where I find it necessary. Though after having to Raise a bunch of people, SoS and MB will only go so far.

Oh I know when the other healer is being lazy because I'm doing most of the AoE healing on my SCH.

Like you, I spam physick and only adlo when necessary, using lustrate for aether stacks. As as result, my normal MP level is extremely high and I never run out of MP. When the other healer decides to not AoE heal and I have to spam succor when whispering dawn is down, things become a problem. Also, I am usually the one to get the raise off faster than the other healer, resulting in lower mana.

On WHM, it's quite troublesome. You HAVE to play safe if you wish to manage your MP properly which does entail parts of the fight where you sit there twiddling your thumbs waiting for minor MP regen to occur.

Eh...such is life. Still, when I'm fighting Ultima and I'm at 1500 MP while the other healer is at 4000 MP and we're about halfway through the fight, something is up.