You've probably missed some of the oh so wonderful threads of regen nonsense I had with Miste before Stormblood. I saw this coming while everyone else cried the sky is falling. I see the gauge for what it is.
There are two ways to play WHM. You can use Cure and Cure II as your main heal, exactly like Yoshi-P plays it. You then have 20% more use off Assize and never run out of MP and rarely even need to use Lucid Dreaming. This is the "fishing for a proc" method of using Cure with free Cure II's. It's the same on AST, as Benefic does the same with Benefic II.
Or
You can play the Raider meta WHM which is to overheal by casting regen and medica II needlessly so that you can maximize DPS. Same with AST, cast the HoT's and then just DPS.
There is nothing wrong with those strategies. However the first strategy is what SE has indicated is the correct strategy, and thus they've devised the gauges to reflect that, and not the raider meta. You can play all content that way, and anyone who tells you otherwise is simply wrong. If you play like a raider does, you're just going to be bored on regular content, and the gauge neither helps or hinders you.
Now to reflect back on the other argument that we would have like clockwork pre-SB. "Healers who only heal (are somehow bad/lazy/stupid)" is a wonderful argument that raiders like to bludgeon other players with, and is untrue. Healers that are "only healing" are likely adhering to the first strategy, because using spot healing takes more GCD time than casting HoT's to overheal. As a result, they are more prepared to rescue a bad PUG party since they're not spending every last MP on Holy spam or Stone's. How often do you need to salvage a bad PUG party? Not very often.
The worst healers in this game, are the ones that do not understand that it's ok to stop casting. Pre-pull regen/medica ii/aspected benefic/aspected helios is a direct result of players being told to do the raider meta without knowing why. Spamming regen, medica ii/aspected benefic/aspected helios is a direct result of raider meta being incorrectly applied.
If you're response to me is going to to be "you're wrong" again, save it. The proof is in the pudding.



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I'd love to review that thoroughly like I did in the past with a previous video.


