Quote Originally Posted by Eriane View Post
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?
It is not irrelevant. One requires a cast for its healing every time healing is given. One requires a cast for 21 seconds of healing over time. They function entirely different for different purposes. It is an apples and oranges comparison. If you want to compare them, you have to take into account that they are a direct heal vs a HoT. Its not complicated or anything, any healing in any MMO is based on what type of heal it is....HoT, Direct heal, Shielded heal etc. That must be looked at when comparing and contrasting heals.

You may as well try to compare Summoner DoTs to Black mages Direct Damage, after all both damage the target, but they do it totally differently. If you put them side by side and compare one tick of a DoT to one cast of Fire 1 without looking at the long term effects/benefits/drawbacks of each, its the same as your doing with a HoT and a direct heal. Of course Fire 1 looks better.