Sacred Soil

[Kaisha]

But wouldn't ''handling it properly'' mean mitigating it properly ?

Handled properly is not getting one-shotted beyond mitigation, not overhealing/buffing for every possible thing.

The incoming damage is predictable when everyone's doing the mechanics dance, and WHM can deal with the bulk of the raid damage and keeping tanks alive with SCH pet for 90% of the encounters, which leaves the SCH free to heavily focus on DPSing while popping the odd lustrate/adlo.

I just rarely see use for Soil. Outside of LB2-Tera and Mega>Giga, only other spot in T13 I'd use one is the Giga+Akh#3 combo.

I only use Sacred Soil on Mega Flare (T9)

Back when you needed full stoneskin for mega flare, yeah, soil and covenant were a necessity to survive it, but not these days. With echo, if you overbuff for mega you miss out on a ton of free LB bar build-up from critical damage, which a WHM can heal up solo with DS-Med+Med2.