Quote Originally Posted by Rivxkobe View Post
The fact that you can only get Confession stacks when you cast a Cure or Cure II and not even Medica(at least), that the heal consumes the stacks, and that it is unlikely (and unrealistic) to get more than one stack on the tank (let alone even one stack on any other party member) Plenary Indulgence is, frankly, silly and an overly clunky heal that needs to be looked at.
I actually kind of like that WHM only gains stacks on Cure I and II. I admit it makes them cruddy AoE healers. But I like that it encourages healers to take on individual roles. The AoE-heavy healers like AST can handle the AoE (AST has the MP regen to sustain repeated AoE heals anyways). Meanwhile, the WHM can focus on healing the MT and any emergency heals on players who accidentally eat an AoE, etc.

Plenary Indulgence seems to me to have two major functions:

1. To act as a double heal on a single target, with potential to divide it across two or three targets if you are keeping them all healed. Plenary is an excellent tool that should allow WHM to single-handedly manage healing both the MT and OT if they are splitting the damage source between them. This frees up their co-healer to focus on party-wipe AoE healing. As raid complexity increases, this sort of healer role splitting tactic could become important.

2. It preserves MP. Being able to constantly use Plenary every few seconds essentially gives you an free, instant Cure II. Many new healer skills are aimed at preserving MP while doubling as a potential emergency heal. AST has Lady of Crowns for this, as well as Earthly Star, allowing for a double AoE heal, saving the cost of casting Helios twice (not to mention full-healing the whole party after heavy AoE damage).