Quote Originally Posted by Gemina View Post
From what I can tell, the intention of the lily gauge is not to deliberately toss unneeded heals trying to fill it up. Why would anyone do this? The question I am asking is how hard are these Stormblood mobs going to hit? The reason why I ask this, is because the more damage the group takes, the more powerful the WHM becomes. That is what this lily gauge does. You potentially get stronger and faster until you have to use an ability like Assize, or Asylum. And if things really get hairy, you get to cast a buffed up stoneskin, instantly, in mid-battle. It could make the difference between a wipe and success.

The abilities WHM is losing to the cross skill slots (most of which the other two healers crossed already) may not be as bad it seems. Has anyone considered that WHM may no longer need them? If you actually need to cure to get your procs and stacks, why bring Divine Seal? Hell, why even bring Protect? Leaving room for something like Surecast. I for one saw the change to Surecast, and this skill went from totally useless, to something I TOTALLY want now. Might want to think about keeping Cleric too, especially with our new ability reduce MP cost to 0 for what is it? 10 seconds. How many free Holy's is that? It can also be used for a free raise. Will WHM even need Saints except situationally now?

I actually can't help but get a little excited the more I think about things. We need to play it, and perhaps adjustments will be made based on player feedback. Don't give up yet WHMs!
The intent behind the lily system is to boost healing if you're healing the way Yoshi-P wants you to. If people have been healing the wrong way all this time just so they can get more DPS, then those people simply picked the wrong job in the first place.

Like given what you have a choice for in this game, why ISN'T everyone playing scholar/summoner.

The Lily system isn't encouraging overhealing, it's encouraging you to heal through Cure I and Cure II, which is what you should be using when characters take damage, not constantly overheal with Regen and Medica II. If you are actually WHM playing the way Yoshi-P thinks people play it, then you get the benefit of being able to cast these high power heals when you need them, instead of spamming them because they're available. If you're playing DPS-WHM like some people have said they are playing, then the Lily system doesn't harm you, so there's simply nothing to complain about.

Meanwhile, look at Scholar, their new trick is the Fae Union triggered by Aetherflow. Something you should be using anyway. So people maybe shouldn't be looking at Lily and Fae meters as anything but "bonus trick I can do for playing the role correctly"