Quote Originally Posted by Silver-Strider View Post
It's not totally hyperbolic though.
Your most used Healing abilities on SCH are the Fairy abilities since you minimize the usage of Aetherflow as much as possible. Between Whispering Dawn, Fey Blessing, Seraph/Consolation and Aetherpact, the Fairy does do most of the healing in most casual content. That isn't to say you aren't throwing out Recitation boosted Excogs and Indoms prn but it's not totally outside the realm of possibility that the fairy can do it all solo, assuming the Tank isn't paper mache.
Minizing Aetherflow use is very much a high-end raiding tactic. Mostly for parsing. Yes, you can lean on your coheal or tank's ability... but ultimately it does show when you do! Especially to your coheal!

For example: https://www.fflogs.com/reports/qrk42...1&type=healing

Overall it's a great parse. I won't shake a stick at that one bit. Especially since you tend to lean into the regen healing. However the healing parse definitely makes it look like the WHM was taking a bit more of the heavy lifting.

The bad? Overheal. Lots of it. Faerie abilities are notorious for overhealing (30-40% isn't uncommon). Almost all of your whispering dawn was wasted, half of your fae blessings, 80% of Seraphic veil... A lot of your healing just went into thin air.

You also didn't really take advantage of a prepull or downtime deployed shield, which tends to put a lot more stress on the party.

Compare: https://www.fflogs.com/reports/vwZ2P...ing&source=108

Obviously, your parse is higher than mine. (Again, 74% is awesome. I will never detract from that!) I can fairly confidently say that you're probably a fair bit cleaner at keeping your GCDs rolling and keeping your dot on point. Your party also was a fair bit more skilled which certainly helped (I am jealous of your kill time!)

But you will notice that with two deployed crit adloqouim, my faerie heals immediately get beaten out heavily by Galvanized? With almost none of the shield wasted due to timing them for big raidwide hits? I used indom about twice as often as well. Frankly rarely do I bother with recitation on it anymore. Recitation excog or recitation crit shields I find a LOT more reliable, with indom being more of "Raidwide just hit, immediate response." sort of thing.

You also did not once cast Sacred soil, which is fairly morbid considering just how powerful that is.

Now what exactly am I getting at, comparing two parses like this? Scroll over to the damage portion of both parses.

https://www.fflogs.com/reports/vwZ2P...one&source=108

https://www.fflogs.com/reports/qrk42...-done&source=5

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