Lily a little unnecessary?

[basketofseals]

Why prime 3 Lilies to use Assize when you can just use Assize normally? Especially if you just got rezed and need MP (and maybe help heal the party)?
If you're priming all 3 Lilies before every ability effected by them, then you're just over-healing and wasting MP.
Or are you holding on to the abilities, waiting til you get enough Lilies? That's just adding extra stress for yourself.

Since Assize should be used on cooldown, so I don't think too much of an assumption that you have plenty of time to build lilies in the meantime. It might not seem like much, and in some cases it might not even matter at all, but if you're about to head into a heavy AoE phase like the Gaurdian's second add, then having your assize up 12 seconds earlier can make a difference.

You're going to have to heal sometime, and you shouldn't be cure 2ing at such a low mana level. It's not such an unusual thing to build a lily here and there. Just instead of waiting for the tank to get low and then burst him up with CDs, just throw in an extra cure or two right before assize comes up. Just avoid accidentally blowing them on a benison or something, that's all. I'm not advocating for sitting there farming for lillies for every CD. Cure 1 is the exact same mana as Stone 4 after all.

If you have Lucid or Thin Air avaliable, you pop one or both and your MP should be fine.

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And remember, this is excluding the possibility of you having another healer with you, and/or a caster/ranged who can give you MP.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but Lucid Dreaming and Thin Air should be used on CD. I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that it would not be available in this circumstance. Mana batteries are certainly nice, but there's no guarantee those abilities are also not on cooldown, or even if you have those jobs in your raid. Isn't the common application of Tactician to extend Foe's Requiem use?

Mana shift would do the job sufficiently, but I find players rather reticent to use it. Should they even take it? Apocatastasis, Addle, Diversion, Lucid Dreaming, and Swiftcast all have very useful and strategic applications. It's your opinion on whether you should put a little added burden on the group to carry recovery tools. Personally I think you should, but not all would agree.