POLL: Best healer for 4 mans?

[Kaeoni]

For the emergency MP boost, DRK should be using Carve and Spit, and keep using Souleater combo to keep MP up in the long run. A good DRK one will ensure they keep enough MP to handle chain pulling. Think of Warrior Overpower, you wouldn't be spamming it and running dry on TP out of necessity.

I'm not a professional Drk, but when i'm using Carve and Split I pair it with Dark arts (450 potency is hard to pass up lol, meaning no MP recover as well), I also Pair Souleater with Dark Arts. For good reason, the incredible increase in potency for both and the 100% Absorb on Souleater. Otherwise the recovery on souleater is pretty negligible. I NEVER use Carve and split without Dark arts. Maybe because I'm able to keep my MP at a decent rate with Grit/Darkside and Blood Weapon activation? Idk.

For an MP recovery combo I'd rather Delirium because of the increased dmg potency and potential debuff bar no mnk.. I mean in large pulls I suppose in terms of overall damage done, whm does have the advantage over Drk, but to me it's neither here nor there.

You might think it's overblown but if the time w/o resource recovery truly is 7 seconds that's kind of a big deal and a large loss of potential utility. It would be like taking stacks away from a warrior. The problem is Whm doesn't have a direct effect on how a warrior manages TP Or Stacks, but it does have a direct effect on how Drk manages MP. Ofc it's not some huge deal with some communication like ppl have said. whm is still just as viable as the other healers, even with Holy being used. But.. It is still something to take into consideration when the pair of them do inevitably come up.

There are always non-useless ways for drks to apply their MP in any situation, we can't just assume that all MP hungry drks are just squandering their MP away like idiots. Dark arts Souleater to me is bread n butter. I'd do it all day if I could. But there are also ways to mitigate dmg with our MP freeing any healer up to do other types of dmg like DoT's Stone3's and broils.... and w/e else... Astro has... fckin... Meteorite? Star shower? Whatever Give me card buffs slave >=(

Something to also keep in mind, Blood Price is also near worthless on single targets, It doesn't hurt or anything, but it's probably better to sit on it unless you're extremely hurting for MP or you're fighting a boss. But even then Blood Weapon is probably where it's at for those scenarios

We can go around in circles about it, and I'm not saying decent drks can't keep MP up with decent whms doin their Holy thing. However, at the end of the day your tanks MP takes priority and should be something healers should keep an eye out for incase they do need to recover MP. I frequently pull with lower than 20% MP because I have blood price up. That's not normally enough to keep threat. just saying be aware is all.

Edit: PLUS i'm sorta sick of people trashing tanks who're doing their best to learn a class. If they ask you not to Holy, for the love of god just spend an extra 5 minutes in a duty finder with them, mby some constructive criticism? But don't just inherently call them plebs just because they wanna try something new and tank for insta ques. Rome wasn't built in a day, Why does a tank need to be? Why does anyone need to be.