benediction

[Pentt]

Benediction always overheals since you can't use it on a corpse and it will always heal 100% of a player's maximum hp.

[BrodyAlgana]

I don't use it often, but whenever I have its been far enough into the fight that I haven't seen a notice pull of aggro from it over spamming cure 2 to fill someone up. I suppose if you used at or near the pull, it could pull some hate.

[LiadansWhisper]

Benediction always overheals since you can't use it on a corpse and it will always heal 100% of a player's maximum hp.

I don't think it actually heals a fixed number. The tooltip would indicate that it restores the player to full, regardless of health deficit. Considering that it also ignores status debuffs that lower the amount of healing done, I think it's less of a number and more of a percentage (though it shows up as a literal number in the floating combat text).

Benediction is a "Get Out of Jail Free" card that should be used for just that - someone's gonna die if they don't get healed up right now. With that in mind, I use it when it needs to be used and I don't worry about the Hate/Threat I might pull. Because if the situation is that bad, my first duty as the healer is to make sure people don't die (even to their own stupidity -_-). Period.

[Kyomih]

Benediction always overheals since you can't use it on a corpse and it will always heal 100% of a player's maximum hp.

Actually it doesn't since, unlike our other heals, it doesn't heal for a set amount of HP but for what amount of HP your target is missing.

[Pentt]

Actually it doesn't since, unlike our other heals, it doesn't heal for a set amount of HP but for what amount of HP your target is missing.

No it doesn't. The number Bene heals for is your target's maximum, not missing. If you heal a PLD with 6k, it heals for 6k and you get 0.6x enmity of that. If you have 4k hp, it heals yourself for 4k hp and you get 0.6x enmity of that.

If you don't believe me go summon your chocobo and sic it on a mob, then bene yourself at full HP. Guarantee you will rip aggro every time.

[Norbi]

You guys sure? I could have sworn I've Benediction'd a tank with (rough numbers) 1300 HP remaining out of a 5600 HP pool and the green number was 5600.
I'll have to take another look at this when I get home.

[Selemar]

Sometimes the agro can be your friend... If i'm in a bad CM group where people don't control the adds, and the other healer is getting whacked. I'll purposely slam them with benediction, take the agro and kite them/heal myself.

[Garnatian]

Doesn't really matter. Medica II heals for more and most WHMs spam that without a care in the world, until you know, they die.

[LiadansWhisper]

Doesn't really matter. Medica II heals for more and most WHMs spam that without a care in the world, until you know, they die.

I still think they should give Medica and Medica II to tanks for threat generation.

We'd never pull off them then!

[PetiteMalFleur]

It pulls massive hate. If you use it on a dps with full hate on a mob you will probably pull it to yourself. I've had one person criticize me for the use of benediction but this was because they were aware of the long cool down and thought I used it needlessly on them during a boss fight instead of saving it for the tank.