Quote Originally Posted by Judge_Xero View Post
@slowpoke.

Well to be fair, the evolution of the healer meta went in stages.

1. Keep everyone alive
2. Keep everyone alive without going out of MP
3. Keep everyone alive while DPSing
4. Keep everyone alive while DPSing and not going out of MP
5. Keep everyone alive without healing.

At least if you're in the 3/4 range you are at some level of optimization.
Pretty much.
Part of mp management is knowing when you need to let your hots tick, part of heal and mp management is maximizing your stats, rotation and optimization of ogcds.
For example for WHM on single target rotation, keeping dots up improves mp management by roughly +1min and half than simply spamming stone III. Same way that shroud needs to be popped during a server tick to avoid the loss +707mp, this can be easily seen by when hots tick.