I was wrong about WHMs.

[DreamWeaver]

Other than "Knowing when not to heal, not when to heal", I would like to add "what to heal with" as well .

Unlike Scholars with their 2/3 Physick : 1 Adlo ratio (Please correct me if I'm wrong in thinking a Scholar's healing rotation for normal healing, not tank buster damage healing can be simplified into a set rotation of physick and adlos), there's no such thing as 2/3 Cure I : 1 Cure II ratio for WHMs.

Many WHMs I see usually use Cure II right after a tank buster attack (Death Sentence, Raven's Beak), and while this is standard procedure, I would think there's still improvement that can be done.

If you're able to analyze the current situation and pay attention to what debuffs are on the boss/buffs are on the tanks, you can actually make a snap decision whether to use Cure I or Cure II to heal the tank buster attack damage:

1) Only your stoneskin is applied, tank has no adlo no personal CD, Boss has no debuffs? Better prep that Cure II!
2) Tank has Stoneskin+Adlo+Sentinel, Boss has E4E, virus debuffs? A heal spell may not even be required, but why not just throw a Cure I just to feel safe .

Obviously the 2 top examples are extreme cases on when to Cure I (Maybe don't cure at all!) and when to Cure II, but these are decisions a WHM have to make on the fly based on what buffs/debuffs are active currently.

Your reward for doing all the above? Possibly 133 Mana because you decided a Cure I is more than sufficient and will not use Cure II.

Sound's like a PITA just to save 133 mana right? But this is the game of the WHM, every little decision you make (Cure III/Medica/Medica II or Cure I / Cure II or Cure I / Regen to heal DPS up) will impact your mana in the long run : That panic Cure II spam on the OT/MT on the 2nd Minute of the fight may come back and haunt you during the 8th Minute of the fight.

....Or you can just ask a Bard to be your mana battery and all your mana problems will go away.
.....Until you wiped at 0.3% of a boss and you realize if the bard wasn't required to sing MP song for you previously, you could have killed the boss already