Quote Originally Posted by Maeka View Post
Yeah, sometimes I do forget to draw cards, I'll not notice the cooldown is up right away, and I'll try to keep the 'don't use the abilities back to back' thing in mind. Kinda wondered that myself a few times, but got distracted or something lol.

As for Combust, it's something I have trouble remembering to do yeah.
Any ability or skill with a long CD or duration (e.g. dots and Lightspeed/Draw) will get into your head with practice over time. It's purely muscle memory.

You can help yourself by getting an additional, large scaled hotbar with those abilities to keep track of their CDs. It also may help you keeping an overview for your "oh crap" or "high heals" abilities, such as Synastry, Largesse, Essential Dignity and so on.

In my opinion, 14 levels into one job is barely enough time to achieve that. It's no shame. On the contrary, I am rather surprised you kept Draw on CD in the heat of battle.

As for holding abilities for emergency: Gemina already said it, you might end without ever using them.
e.g. take PLD's Hallowed Ground: It can be used for emergency when healer can't keep up with heals, or CD management is screwed up. The chance that such an emergency ever occurs, is probably around 1-3%. It's better used for "normal" mitigation rotation.

...well, and if we apply it to Murphy's law, once you used it, everything goes down the hills