SE are leaving BLM to rot by giving SMN and RDM even more utility

[lulunami]

Everlasting Flight already lines up with damage more often than not. On top of that, you have much more flexibility now, considering you have a 15 sec window to weave Rekindle and an additional 30 sec window for either damage to bring your target under 50% health or for the regen to start ticking down. It's absurd to write it off as "flavor".

You use Phoenix about every 110 seconds currently on SMN. Despite that healing from Phoenix, healers are not really planning that into their healing timeline. The difference between a player living or dying is not going to be dependent upon Phoenix's heal. The other healing tools from two healers and other mitigation options will overshadow the healing from Phoenix.

[rewd]

You use Phoenix about every 110 seconds currently on SMN. Despite that healing from Phoenix, healers are not really planning that into their healing timeline. The difference between a player living or dying is not going to be dependent upon Phoenix's heal. The other healing tools from two healers and other mitigation options will overshadow the healing from Phoenix.

None of this makes it "flavor" and not utility, that's still an absurd thing to state. If you want to be more precise, you'd call it situational utility (like other abilities in the game).

Great healers will take Phoenix's hefty heal into consideration when/if possible and adjust accordingly. Less than great healers won't, but that's also why they are less than great.

A player living or dying won't depend on Mantra, Minne or RDM's barrier either, it still doesn't make them flavor and not "real utility".

[lulunami]

None of this makes it "flavor" and not utility, that's still an absurd thing to state. If you want to be more precise, you'd call it situational utility (like other abilities in the game).

Great healers will take Phoenix's hefty heal into consideration when/if possible and adjust accordingly. Less than great healers won't, but that's also why they are less than great.

A player living or dying won't depend on Mantra, Minne or RDM's barrier either, it still doesn't make them flavor and not "real utility".

Maybe if a healer is trying to get a 100 parse in Ultimate. Mapping Everlasting Flight to the timeline in order for two healers to get 99 parse together is not required. You have to understand that healers have too many healing tools that trivialize content to just Glare and Broil.