Presence of Mind - better, but still useless, suggestion how to fix it.

[Menae]

Spell speed has such a minor effect in this game that PoM will never be useful. You literally have to spam spells to get any worth out of it, and if you're spamming cures you've got bigger problems than how to use PoM effectively.

IMO, they should just replace it with a skill I might actually get some use out of. How about an AoE version of Esuna, or a skill similar to Benediction but removing all debuffs on target rather than healing? There are literally dozens of ways they could give us an actual useful skill, but PoM will always be a waste of a good slot on my toolbar. If you have to use it, you've already failed as a healer.

It's a decent hps skill. It's the single greatest dps skill we have, period.

I disagree that such a powerful throughput cooldown is worthless; it's not. You can use it for soloing, for chipping in dps in boss fights, for speeding up rezzes when your party decides to die four times in a minute, and yes, for spamming Cures, if that's a thing you like to do. It doesn't even cost you anything to use - throw it in during the GCD after a Regen if healing, Aero while dpsing, or Swiftcasted anything while anything-ing.

[Lemuria]

It's a decent hps skill. It's the single greatest dps skill we have, period.

It literally shaves milliseconds off the casting time for cure. You get maybe 1 extra cure out of the whole duration, 2 maybe with the 'enhancement'. The simple fact is that at higher ranks, there's a significant diminishing return on spell speed, so much so that the effect of POM is so tiny that it makes very little difference overall.

Powerful? We have very different definitions of the term.

As for why I don't tend to use it? Simply put, it has a casting 'time' of its own. Sure it's classed as 'instant' but as anyone who's used Benediction knows, instant is anything but. If I need beefier cures, there's Divine Seal which has the same 'cast time' but guarantees my cures actually work harder for me. A far better payoff than PoM and on a shorter cooldown to boot.

For Holy, maybe it has some small utility. But it's a damned expensive spell, and it's easy to deplete your entire MP bar if you decide to spam it. A holy spamming white mage isn't doing her job of healing the party either, so it's very select in its usefulness.

[Yonko]

It literally shaves milliseconds off the casting time for cure. You get maybe 1 extra cure out of the whole duration, 2 maybe with the 'enhancement'. The simple fact is that at higher ranks, there's a significant diminishing return on spell speed, so much so that the effect of POM is so tiny that it makes very little difference overall.

Powerful? We have very different definitions of the term.

As for why I don't tend to use it? Simply put, it has a casting 'time' of its own. Sure it's classed as 'instant' but as anyone who's used Benediction knows, instant is anything but. If I need beefier cures, there's Divine Seal which has the same 'cast time' but guarantees my cures actually work harder for me. A far better payoff than PoM and on a shorter cooldown to boot.

For Holy, maybe it has some small utility. But it's a damned expensive spell, and it's easy to deplete your entire MP bar if you decide to spam it. A holy spamming white mage isn't doing her job of healing the party either, so it's very select in its usefulness.

As someone who doesn't gear for SS PoM makes it worthwile. It makes my cures cast faster for the 15s it is up. Normally I don't spam cures but there are times when it is useful. Curing wise I see the most use out of PoM in T8 during the dread which only lasts 15 secs. Makes keeping the MT/OT up that much easier. Once the dread spawns I normally cast regen and then pop PoM during the GCD from regen.

So yes it is a niche skill when it comes to healing but if you factor in the DPS it is super useful. (Use it after Aero and you won't notice the delay.)

[Menae]

It literally shaves milliseconds off the casting time for cure. You get maybe 1 extra cure out of the whole duration, 2 maybe with the 'enhancement'. The simple fact is that at higher ranks, there's a significant diminishing return on spell speed, so much so that the effect of POM is so tiny that it makes very little difference overall.

Powerful? We have very different definitions of the term.

As for why I don't tend to use it? Simply put, it has a casting 'time' of its own. Sure it's classed as 'instant' but as anyone who's used Benediction knows, instant is anything but. If I need beefier cures, there's Divine Seal which has the same 'cast time' but guarantees my cures actually work harder for me. A far better payoff than PoM and on a shorter cooldown to boot.

For Holy, maybe it has some small utility. But it's a damned expensive spell, and it's easy to deplete your entire MP bar if you decide to spam it. A holy spamming white mage isn't doing her job of healing the party either, so it's very select in its usefulness.

Yes, it shaves milliseconds off the cast time of Cure. Three hundred forty milliseconds. I'm not trying to stack spell speed on my end - I prefer det, personally.
Still, my Cure 1 time without PoM is: 1.92 With it: 1.58 Stone 2 w/o: 2.4. With: 1.97. Holy: 2.88 to 2.37. Also note that since the recast time is 2.4 seconds

PoM allows me to put seven Stone 2/Aero 2s into a 15 second period instead of six. It lets me fit in nine Cures instead of seven in a 15 second period. That's damage or healing that otherwise would not be there (though it does come with attendant mp costs). Whether you NEED the healing or not is certainly a good reason to not use the skill, but saying it's not as good as Divine Seal therefore you want something else on your cast bar is overreacting. I'd also point out that PoM does increase your cast speed on stoneskins, esunas (lol), slowcast raises (lol), protects, whatever. Probably not the most important thing in the world, but hey, why not, right?