Quote Originally Posted by Semirhage View Post
It'd need number tweaking at the very least. Benison is 500 potency, while Flower Cure 2 is 700. Under almost all circumstances, that makes it inferior, especially if it doesn't even refund any damage toward the Blood Lily.
Indeed it would, but probably not in the way that you think. If you're thinking 700pot shield, that isn't happening. Even if it was that potency, that GCD is still not going to be refunded. However, this is redundant because the idea with Misery is to refund the 3 GCDs that are used to nourish the blood lily to full. If WHM can nourish the lily by whipping out shields, then it immediately changes the identity of this job. Not happening. The pot on Benison at best would remain the same with this change, but the more likely scenario is it would be reduced due to no longer being bound by the 30s CD.

The dump is exactly that, a dump. The WHM uses this either at their own discretion, or to prevent their lily gauge from capping. It cannot be offensive, because once again it will change the identity of the job and turn the afflatus restorative skills into the abilities bad WHMs use. We would want to avoid that.

This does not mean that Benison can't return some other kind of benefit along with it to help give it incentive. In fact, you probably could delete PoM and make it a buff as a result of using Benison. That change right there would leave this lily dump conversation outright; and WHM gameplay would now focus on maintaining their PoM buff, making them the speedy healer, but that would obviously effect their GCDs used on damage as well; meaning WHM will not be playing optimally if they don't use Benison at least once before PoM runs out.