Healers, then and now:

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Though I'm again confused how DoTs "enable choice". As I've said, you're either refreshing them within 3 sec of their duration or you're doing it wrong UNLESS the boss is about to die or become untargetable, in which case refreshing them is doing it wrong. Where is the "choice"?

Well "choice" is maybe not the correct word, but having Aero 1 added dephts to the dps kit of WHM in HW.

Aero 1 was an instant-cast, unlike Aero 2 and Aero 3 which had to be hard casted. And it was a dps-loss over casting Stone 3.

So you were not refreshing Aero 1 when it was falling off, because you would lose dps. But you could use it as a movement tool, because it was instant. But you could not spam it while moving, because overwriting a DoT over and over again has no purpose. And, since the Stone casts back then were as long as the GCD, you also could use Aero 1 for weaving to avoid clipping.