I always popped Surecast before using my LB as a WHM. Even if most healer LB3's still turn out to be a wipe, it's still epic to pull it off when the whole party is yelling "healer LB!!", rather than facing a slow and agonizing death alone just from getting interrupted. And sometimes it really CAN save the day XD

I always did a lot of gathering and put at least one unspoiled node search on my WHM also >.>