Healer Guide/Class Comparison

[Eriane]

Your comparing a HoT to a direct heal. Each is better in different situations. It's almost apples and oranges.

Irrelevant. They both act as a supplemental healing. The purpose is the same, the execution differs.

Why is supplemental healing needed? Two main reasons.
1. To patch up damage that doesn't require a direct heal and to be as efficient as possible. (Regen being cheap for the amount of healing, and the potential of healing further minor damage preemptively.)
2. To supplement tank healing.

Embrace is the more viable solution until 3 targets need supplemental healing without the downside of potential problems, like extra threat from overhealing, mana and wasted gcd's. Any more than 3 you may decide it would be more time efficient to use a raid heal.

I like regen well enough but it did amuse me in harder content before i was geared to see a tank drop or nearly die because i used a gcd casting regen... on the tank much less a dps. In certain fights i don't even bother with the spell.

Once you outgear content... well who cares?