Lily a little unnecessary?

[basketofseals]

I'm a tad confused. My post was built on hypothetical, and listed multiple scenarios. Sometimes you can forget to use a CD, so it might be up. Sometimes your raise aligns with a CD coming off CD. Sometimes you have multiple CDs avaliable. Sometimes you don't have any CDs.

My point was that using Cure I is hardly ever an efficient use of your GCD. Even with low MP you have other tools that can help you heal through until you get you MP back up. Why would I use 3 Cures if I could instead use Regen and Divine Benison?

Hmm, perhaps it's on my co-healers then? I'm staticless, so communication is low between healers. SCHs work fine between faerie and their extremely available aetherflow CDs, but I find just regen/benison to not be sufficient when paired with AST, especially if there's incoming mechanics going on.

I apologize for skipping over you hypothetical earlier, but I can address it now.

If you have Assize you should use it as soon as possible, trying to get as much healing out of it as you can. Using 3 Cures and then casting Assize is usually a waste of GCDs and MP. A 20% CD reduction on Assize is 12 seconds, sure, but you would have to spend ~7.5 seconds priming it, effectively only reducing the CD by ~4.5 seconds.

I don't really understand where this is coming from. I'm not trying to say grabbing 3 lilies is efficient, but the goal in my scenario is to just tread water in order to have the mana for upcoming mechanics. If you know that there won't be much incoming damage soon, but if you know 3 back to back raid wide AoEs coming up in less a minute and your Thin Air and Lucid are out of reach, then you'll want that extra mana available to you.