Idea to fix controversy about healer dps.

[OcieKo]

All in all just wanted to point out this is often not "garbage situational spell use" and many times just the right thing to do.

I acknowledge theres great uses for the spells but a lot of times you just see people waste it for god knows what reasons. Can't say how many times I've seen some healer spam Cure 2, Bene 2, Adloq, DABene, Medica 2 and other spells with good usages, but theyll use it for say... Topping off 3-5k hp during an invuln phase. Really annoys me when healers blow their MP for no good reason.

Part of my opinion on the matter is rooted in my bias towards MP efficiency over GCD efficiency, which the later favors the overly DPS centric trend of games today.

I think personally this has as much to do with mp efficency as it does to do with GCD efficency. I know on WHM specifically unless there is an incoming tankbuster in Savage/EX that I need the tank topped up for rarely am I casting a GCD heal for the 10-11k that a Cure hits for, I'll generally plan for my heal to hit when he's lower than that so I can get more bang for my buck with Cure II or Tetra if it's up.

If we're talking tank healing often you can precast the larger heals with the expectation of the need for the extra potency, many good healers will have tank buster recovery started before the hit lands, but the issue is more when there no reason to believe your going to make use of it, in those cases its just blown MP. The point where the blown MP for no gain doesn't seem to be factor in the decision making, can be considered an issue. Foresight into ability to function for the next 30s regardless of what happens seems to be a dying skill.

Given that this thread is about healer DPS controversy GCD Efficiency > MP Efficiency being percieved extremely lopsided in favor of GCD Efficiency does contribute to it. Since as long as maintaining the power pool is such a joke that it becomes a non-factor.