Quote Originally Posted by Recon1o6 View Post
Should healers get their unique mp management styles expanded on (or readded in ast's case) and lucid dreaming be scrapped?
So if we take a wider view outside of just healers...

A raw resource pool like MP/TP has had increasingly less relevance. I mean, TP's been flat out removed - and why wouldn't you. Optimal play is about keeping uptime, managing resources in more of a builder-spender sense, and so on.

Then looks look at MP on caster DPSs. It's pretty irrelevant. Doing their DPS rotations, they will never ever run out and can DPS indefinitely. And in a game that's about optimizing up time, minimizing movement, and so on, why would it make sense to have it be otherwise? --But there's one exception. Raising. MP still limits raising.

Then we have healers. The only classes left that can actually run out of MP doing their normal thing. AST most notably, though that's being addressed shortly. And, yes, even WHM needs a certain piety minimum or it can't really come back from a KO in a high uptime fight.

The logical progression would be to make MP irrelevant outside of raising.

oGCDs are already throttled by their CDs. If you're GCD healing, you're already punished for that by slipping DPS. With how optimization works, there's not really a particular reason for MP to restrict normal spell usage. Every other class gets to not have TP or pretend MP doesn't exist, outside of raising. Why should healers be the exception?