Quote Originally Posted by Staris View Post
Crit is bad for healing as a whm not just because it is unreliable, but also because it can cause more threat.

Lets hypothetically imagine your using medica or cure 3 to heal through some aoe damage. A few outcomes exist
If it takes you 1 cast to top people off , a crit would just add threat.

If it takes you 2 a crit might help, but only if its on the first cast. Otherwise, just more threat.

So in 2 out of 3 situations, you don't want to crit.

Then on those 1 in 3 situation you won't crit every time it comes up, so inevitably to be able to reliably heal through the fight you have to have the base healing to heal it, without crit.
WHM should never be dancing so close to the hate line that casts critting would cause trouble. But lucky crits can be very useful. The only situation where I could think I wouldn't want to crit would be if I was overhealing in the first place. Crit is nice for nukes too.