Cure v. Cure 2

[Silver-Strider]

I will not shut up because you want me to.

If you are playing content where the trash dies before the Holy cast even goes off, then there is no point casting it. Especially when you have a tank that keeps dragging the mobs around. You're supposed to use instant-casts after cast-times because it conserves the GCD recast time. So holy then assize, not assize then holy. Plus you recover the MP of that initial Holy. Spamming Holy before the stun wears off is just a waste, and if you do it on monsters that have interruptable mechanics before they telegraph those mechanics, then they become immune to it faster.

So you're saying you DON'T use Thin Air prior to Holy Spam? Got it.
Also, you never stated at any point about any mob that had interruptable mechanics prior to this statement of which case you aren't going to Holy spam anyways, that's should be common sense.

Anyways I'm done speaking about this.

[Parawill]

Cure 1 still has its place. While it may or may not be optimal in cases where we're pushing for healer DPS, there are times where I need to play defensively to not only conserve mana for impending deaths of duty finder (very specific to full parties, and very rare for astonishingly low tank AND actual damage dealer's DPS). Also there are times where I need to save offGCDs for something else within the next few seconds, so I opt to Cure (or Regen--really depends on the situation) unless I really need Benision (for whatever the reason).

So you're saying you DON'T use Thin Air prior to Holy Spam? *snip*

From what I understand (and also what I do) is to never use Thin Air when I start off Holy'ing unless my MP is below two Holy Casts as you'd want to maximize everything Assize does from healing HP, restoring MP and doing damage. In addition to this, by holding Thin Air for when MP drops below two Holy casts, we can benefit from the natural MP refresh in addition to Lucid Dreaming to supplement the Holy casts beyond Thin Air (if the mobs live that long anyways).

[Silver-Strider]

*snip*.

Something to consider is, how much MP have you used to keep the Tank/DPS up prior to Holy spamming? In most case, you need to wait for the tank to stop pulling before you can start using Holy and if the tank/DPS are taking heaps of damage for whatever reason, it's unlikely that you'll be able to even get started without having used at least some MP to make sure everyone is fine before you Holy Spam, if you can at all. DPS pulling ahead of the tank/ripping hate off a tank is becoming far too often an occurrence that I'd be lying if I said I was a full MP prior to starting Thin Air+Holy Spam.

[Parawill]

Something to consider is, how much MP have you used to keep the Tank/DPS up prior to Holy spamming? In most case, you need to wait for the tank to stop pulling before you can start using Holy and if the tank/DPS are taking heaps of damage for whatever reason, it's unlikely that you'll be able to even get started without having used at least some MP to make sure everyone is fine before you Holy Spam, if you can at all. DPS pulling ahead of the tank/ripping hate off a tank is becoming far too often an occurrence that I'd be lying if I said I was a full MP prior to starting Thin Air+Holy Spam.

Absolutely. I think the most I've ever done was Tetra/Cure 2 before they reached the next pack. DPS can die if they get hit by too much avoidable damage though cause at that point I don't have GCDs to spare to heal them.