Let's Discuss: WHM's new Lily System

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I dislike that the Afflatus heals are used to nourish the Blood Lily. The benefit to them is supposed to be that they're instant (and, thus, mobile) and cost no MP. The Blood Lily should have been a way to encourage use of Cure and Cure II. It would've made a lot more sense: "here are these helpful tools, but you're better off standing still and casting when you can because you can offset the DPS loss". Instead it's, "never cast Cure or Cure II again lol".

I also dislike the way Lilies are generated. It's just a cheap knock-off of Aetherflow. If the Afflatus heals weren't used for the Blood Lily, there would be no reason not to just have Lilies generated by casting Stone / Glare or Holy rather than passively on a timer - again, because you'd be better off using cast-time spells which allow you to offset your DPS loss. It would also feel a lot less awkward to sit on 3 Lilies, because you're not "losing" the Blood Lily or the timer on generation.

They also could have made some of the additional effects on WHM abilities a lot more interesting by tying them to Lilies. For example, what if Asylum consumed a Lily on use (but did not require one) to get the additional +10% healing effect? This would be more reason still to give WHM active generation of Lilies rather than this passive garbage that we barely interact with. Assize could do the same to get its MP restore effect; Divine Benison could refresh active Regen on the target. Simple stuff, but it at least would require us to rub two neurons together.