Quote Originally Posted by AiharaMizuki View Post
Except people don't use it as an emergency button. It's used to push out more dps via Energy Drain/Bane or OGCD heals instead of GCD heals. I do agree it's not the best skill even back when it was new in HW but calling it the worst or trash is a bit of an overstatement.
If that is the point then there is another contradiction, both possible uses you mentioned require not using our gcd heals, so why does it buff them. It should give some kind of damage buff if that is what they intended, which I don't believe for a second.