What's with Medica 2

[Urthdigger]

Alright, consider me the terrible White Mage, as very recently, it's what I was doing.

Here's the story: I haven't really levelled White Mage that much. But my mother plays the game, and she's really not good with trials or raids. So, when the main scenario demands trials, I do them for her. Now, the healer I know better is Scholar, but I'm familiar enough with White Mage.
So, the recently released trial needed to be done. And I really am not familiar with the level 80 WHM toolkit.

The other healer is a white mage. So there's no sort of shields from all the raidwide damage. Medica 2 is my go-to mass heal here, because I know there will be mechanics requiring intensive healing over a short period of time, while mechanics I need to dodge are happening. I can't really stop and stand still, and people are constantly dying, so Swiftcast isn't available for any sort of bursty healing.

I use Medica 2 in advance, so that it has a few ticks of healing keeping everyone from dying to Pyretic while I'm busy backing off out of telegraphs. If I'm not supposed to use that, then what do I use instead? I'm not being sarcastic, genuinely, how should I be mass healing when there's massive damage going out in rapid succession?

If massive heals are needed back to back, use Medica. Medica does more immediate healing, Medica II is only really useful if there's at least 9 seconds or so between damage, preferably at least 15. In any case, the topic was more about WHMs using it in inappropriate situations as just "This is what I push always." So, spamming it back to back, using it when only one person needs healing, just trying to keep the buff up 24/7, etc.

[Rae88]

If massive heals are needed back to back, use Medica. Medica does more immediate healing, Medica II is only really useful if there's at least 9 seconds or so between damage, preferably at least 15. In any case, the topic was more about WHMs using it in inappropriate situations as just "This is what I push always." So, spamming it back to back, using it when only one person needs healing, just trying to keep the buff up 24/7, etc.

Medica has a 1000 mp cost and 300 potency, medica 2 has a 1300 mp cost with an immediate 200 cure potency plues 100 regen ever 3 seconds. Medica has more limited uses than medica 2, and people advocating for medica to be used more widely are doing so on the basis of the old system where medica 2 would rip aggro off the tanks. This isn't a concern anymore.

Really medica heals for so little you're either topping people off with medica, which is frowned upon, or you're spamming it because of consistent AOE damage, which is more the correct usage. And it's quite rare, a plenary/temperance medica 2 is very powerful.

But at the end of the day, 2 medicas is 600 potency. A medica 2 is 700 potency overall. If you used two medicas instead of a medica 2, you just used 700 more mp and wasted a GCD.

This situation is quite rare, to the point that I haven't used Medica in months.

Definitely more of an old ability these days