The Future of WHM

[Shurrikhan]

Spells Afflatus Solace and Afflatus Rapture will replace Cure II and Medica whenever a lily is in bloom.

Please no. What is the point of having our free-healing as GCDs instead of oGCDs if we can't take advantage of their advantages over oGCDs (on-demand mobility and weave space)?

If the appeal is simply to save buttons on a job that is already the least button-bloated of the healers, then at least retain the ability to time features to their need. For instance, consolidate Thin Air to have your next curative GCD consume a Lily and thereby have its cast time reduced by 3 seconds, cost no MP, and progress your Blood Lily. That still retains the ability to choose when it ought to be used and saves you three keys.

[Silver-Strider]

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Turn Thin Air into Eukrasia more or less.

[Shurrikhan]

Turn Thin Air into Eukrasia more or less.

If the point is mere button consolidation, kind of. Or really just a conditional (intercepted only by Cure II, Medica, Medica II) Swiftcast with the added benefits of Blood Lily generation and no MP costs.

There's a ton more than can be done with all that, but if we're going so far as to remove the key benefits of having our free-casts on the GCD instead of oGCDs just to save a couple buttons, you might as well instead trim three buttons without losing any of those benefits.