My take on the simplicity of healers and the healer problem

[ChoDerecho]

I mean, as someone whose main healer is WHM, I usually have a "this is cookies for you, tank!" combo of slapping a quick Regen-> Divine Bens -> Aquaveil on them before tankbusters or at the beginning of a pull before going into the usual spam. I'm no shield healer, but it's nice being able to have a dash of mit/shield to lay down once in a while. I doubt we'll see Stoneskin make a comeback because we'll step on other healer mechanics.

Maybe WHM could get some kind of buff with having charged lilies- first one adds potency, then spell haste and finally MP regen in that order. Blood lily for Misery is a damage buff for Glare/Holy/Dia if active. Give people a choice between fast burst and improved "basic" casting by managing their lily garden?

[Semirhage]

I mean, as someone whose main healer is WHM, I usually have a "this is cookies for you, tank!" combo of slapping a quick Regen-> Divine Bens -> Aquaveil on them before tankbusters or at the beginning of a pull before going into the usual spam. I'm no shield healer, but it's nice being able to have a dash of mit/shield to lay down once in a while. I doubt we'll see Stoneskin make a comeback because we'll step on other healer mechanics.

Maybe WHM could get some kind of buff with having charged lilies- first one adds potency, then spell haste and finally MP regen in that order. Blood lily for Misery is a damage buff for Glare/Holy/Dia if active. Give people a choice between fast burst and improved "basic" casting by managing their lily garden?

Now THIS I like. If you want to keep WHM "passive", adding passive Astrodyne effects to holding lilies (where the strongest buff comes from the earliest one, so you avoid the feelsbad Glaremage trap of never using lilies) while also rewarding spending them. Sounds like a fantastic way to create choice-based gameplay where you're actually encouraged to skillfully manage something instead of just randomly spamming healing spells whenever and getting a boring flower blast as a reward for occasionally pressing your not!Lustrate.