Medica II abuse needs to stop

[KokoGigiyako]

As a noob who doesn't have Medica II yet what's the supposed point behind precasting Medica II? So far I haven't felt a need to do any precasting beyond putting Stoneskin on my tank.

There is no point in precasting it at all, but it's an awesome skill (when timed properly) that will save you tons of MP and GCD's as you progress towards the endgame content. You'll see it by yourslef

[Ceodore]

You've never played WHM before, have you?

Check character info before posting, saves you the embarrassment of saying someone who has the Archmage achievement never played WHM.

Anyways, yeah, no reason to pre-cast this skill. That being said, no reason a tank shouldn't use the drop buff early function to remove a HOT before pulling. So yeah, sounds like stupidity all around really. Medica II is very MP efficient, if used properly. Popping a massive AOE HOT if 1 or 2 targets lose some hp is stupid. Popping it after all 8 party members take 2-3k damage after a big unavoidable AOE? Kuddos, whm. The WHM has pretty much every healing tool at their fingertips except for an AOE shield that can be used in combat. The GCD in this game is longer than I've seen in almost every other MMO I've ever played, If you can't read an entire fight situation in a matter of 2.5 seconds and decide on what heal you're going to throw out next, then perhaps it's not your computer processor that is too slow.

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I love your banner...

[RogueJawa]

There is no point in precasting it at all, but it's an awesome skill (when timed properly) that will save you tons of MP and GCD's as you progress towards the endgame content. You'll see it by yourslef

Seems like it would pull aggro too, like casting Regen as soon as the tank pulls. I learned that the hard way as soon I got regen that it feels like an enmity magnet. I thought "Oooh! I can drop this around and.. NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE.." I learned my lesson the first time I dropped regen on someone in a FATE grinding group and had a face full of flashing red enmity icons.