Healer Guide/Class Comparison

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"say you need to heal both the DPS and the tank, you can put Regen on both and your heals will be supplemented on both"

I'm taking your example:
To put regen on both will require to you spend 2 GCD's and ~400 mana. If both the tank and the DPS are in dire need of life saving, regen isn't the tool to begin with and I don't think that is what you mean. If the dps needs say a Cure I size heal and the tank needs a cure I sized heal you can just use cure I on tank, embrace on dps and solve both problems at once for 1/3 the price. If they both need a cure II sized heal, I wouldn't use regen, supplement or no. The MT is getting Cure II, the dps is getting Embrace + a cure I if he absolutely needs it for the phase, and then its carry on. If more than 3 people need healing they're getting either medica I/II or cure III depending on the situation. The only time I can even think of pre-regen on a dps is P6 rook, at which point he better be using feather foot and keen flurry because I'm dealing with double dreadnaughts and he's shit out of luck after that.

While you can supplement healing on 2 separate people at the same time with regen embrace is nearly(not quite) x2 as strong(its around 1.8x) and if someone doesn't need the regen at that time you can't move it to another player that needs it to save mana. You have to decide does this other person need a cure I, II, or should I aoe and take the mana hit. Embrace's power comes from the fact that once you cast it on someone, its not attached to someone who might not need it fully, costs nothing, and it doesn't effect your normal rotation. Regardless this is a pointless argument. WHM should never get a fairy/pet/"embrace bot" as I put it because the last thing this game needs is for the classes to become one and the same. This started simply because I compared the 2 because they are both supplemental heals on 3 second recasts. Embrace is ~1.8x as effective per 3 second cast where as regen can be placed on 2 people at the same time. If you're using more than 2 regens at a time you should have just used something like medica II as you're using more mana than what that would have cost you.