Quote Originally Posted by Snow_Princess View Post
Maybe it is just me but I dislike how you need to "plan" to use it, what I mean is, if something happens, and you need to pull that LB3, a lot of times it does mean you die because it holds you in place for too long. So one needs to have a goal to try use it when they know they will not die during the casting it'''..s just frustrating.. Oh we need to wipe because people died at the exact time, no matter what i would do, would die before the LB3 goes off....
Strategy. Being a healer main and using my fair share of Pulse of Lifes, you learn when it's safe to use that LB3 or if it will just kill you and/or your party. You don't pop LB3 willy-nilly, even if your team yells LB3! Using LB as a DPS, you should be familiar enough in a fight to know if you'll end up in bad for the next 10 to 15 seconds.

If you don't know the timing, or the fight, make someone else use it if you can't plan around that recovery.

Quote Originally Posted by Penthea View Post
It can bug out. A few times my target has died just as I casted Excog on them which resulted in them not getting the heal but the ability going on cd anyway. Very annoying.
This means you were too slow. Someone cannot be healed and die at the same time on the same server tick. Either your heal went off before the damage that they took at the server tick, which means they live, or they took the damage first, and you did the heal shortly after and then the server tick resolved and they died. This is why it is important to make sure autos will not crit and kill them. The same applies to cooldowns that many treat as life or death saves (hallowed, living, bene).