My highly opinionated take on this: They made healer oGCDs the "better" versions of their GCD counterparts which compounds to the problem of making GCD healing look bad.

SCHs had the better idea of what a good oGCD is. Take Emergency Tactics and Recitation. Both abilities do nothing on their own but it modifies the properties of Adloquium - one transforms the barrier to healing and the other negates the MP cost and guarantees a critical heal + Catalyze. You can also combine both and make a mini-Benediction.

As for Aetherflow abilities: Lustrate, Excogitation are way better than Physick(in my opinion should already be taken away and buff the potency of Embrace to compensate) but both are limited to a number of casts per minute. The complaints with regards to losing ED to heal is forgetting that GCD actions have the same dilemma. They just spend different resources but are technically the same tradeoff.

Quote Originally Posted by Aravell View Post
Oh I'm aware. I remember that one Golbez EX party I had where I made a dumb mistake and died, then my cohealer popped their "Swiftcast up in XX:XX" macro and proceeded to cast Glare 6 times without moving, then we wiped to Twin Meteor because not everyone is up.

It goes without saying that if you can cast Glare 4 times without moving, you can hardcast a Raise.
I agree.