I've pondered about this as well.
IMHO I think the potency of the lily skills would need to be toned down quite drastically to remain balanced as an oGCD, it'd likely have us clipping horridly again and it'd just lose the current satisfying feel of the whole mechanic. I also think that a straight up DPS dump for Lilies could only really come at the cost of our 900 potency Misery. Again, not a fan of that. For the most part, I don't really find myself with excess Lilies that I can't spend in Savage or Extreme, whilst in casual content like Normals, Maps and Dungeons I find that burning extra Lilies in downtime such between pulls or in transitions does the trick for the most part.
One thought I did have that could be interesting though, would be being able to use a Lily to recast a nerfed version of a self buff on Cooldown. Being able to burn a Lily to get a half duration PoM would be really nice, even if it was half effectiveness as well I think that'd be a good trade? Too strong? Maybe. A bit more interesting than just raw potency though.
I'm actually kind of surprised at that. Whilst I'm not the biggest fan of it merely being a rebrand of Divine Seal with a bigger CD on it, the damage reduction can be impactful. The rather wobbly snapshotting a lot of fights seem to have doesn't really help things though, and I'm wondering if that's part of the issue here?
I've been loving it though, even in Primals it's defo got it's uses.
For example, on innocence with double WHM, hitting my wings and throwing a benison on someone with vulnerability stacks will get them through the post adds transition (As long as I do both before the adds die as it snapshots at that moment, long before the AoE actually hits) whereas early on it was often a 1 shot for a healer or squishy DPS. It's also pretty neat for Titania's Fire Hands, Dia or Regen get refreshed as the two stack markers come out, hit Wings+PI, throw a few more glares then a single Rapture pretty much deletes the damage done and gives me plenty of reserve for if a puddle gets messed up and a group ends up having to stack in the thorns.



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