White Mage using Physick? O.o

[EricCartmenez]

The only time I use Physick is when I'm a BLM, because I couldn't "borrow" Cure after going from THM to BLM. I remember dropping into a dungeon and going "Where's my Cure?!?!!" That was when I figured it out. Too late, because I was with a not so great healer who was too busy casting Stone to keep cast Medica when the time was right. Pulled Physick from the ARC immediately after the fight. Can't see why one would use it unless the level set was so low you wouldn't get your freebie from Cure.

[Anova]

It's a waste of a cross-class slot, but there isn't too much harm in the SCH slotting in cure. Especially if the SCH is young and doesn't have all the cross-class abilities from CNJ and THM yet.

As for the WHM, cure is better than physick only if you have cure2. Low-level dungeons below brayflox will let you use either physick or cure equally well. It is a misuse of a cross-class from a min/max perspective, but it isn't liable to cause a wipe in those dungeons. Higher level dungeons may be another issue, but if the WHM has mp issues, you at least know what to fix. Personally though, whenever physick is cast, I am always reminded that the animation requires a book. Grasping a staff like that just makes me want to put on a mask and scream ham.

[Zoeila]

i've always felt physic has a shorter animation recovery time than cure

[Nicobo]

...
Is there some sort of benefit to it? Isn't it the same as Cure minus the chance for a free Cure II?

No benefit, probably just for making fun, like ppl dancing in battles... ^^;

[Velox]

i've always felt physic has a shorter animation recovery time than cure

It does for the most part. The animation is about 150ms shorter, and since the heal is applied at the end of the end of the animation, it does make physick a shorter heal to cast (of course, GCD still keeps you to the same number of heals per minute).

[Poringing]

Here's the simplest answer:

He's doing it for fun. Realistically, when you're geared enough, you can pretty much pretend cure 2 or cure 3 procs don't exist; when you're like ilvl100 (or 90, 80, 70, 60, 50, maybe even 40) in DR: Main Scenario? (where the OP saw that guy, also you don't need blizzard in there, or consciousness for that matter)