Quote Originally Posted by Molucca View Post
To be fair, it helped a ton with mitigation. Despite it having a cast time, if you know the fight you can pre-cast it to line up with any tankbusters, and it wasn't gated behind casting cure/cure II. You could also us it with Swiftcast, which improved its versatility. Versatility is the important word, because being able to use your toolkit to better adapt to changing situations is one of the best parts of playing a healer.
This argument falls apart on itself. Stoneskin required knowing the tank buster is coming or a swiftcast. If you know the tank buster is coming you can pre cast cure 2, which gives you a lily which allows for Benison instantly. I was lucky to get 1-3 useful stoneskins off any fight and sometimes cost me my swift cast. Benison can be used 5-10 times in a fight and never requires the use of swiftcast. Only difference now is you have to cast a cure 2 first instead of after the shield.