the mp recovery from aetherflow isnt even enough for one adlo

[Aerowaffle]

Make use of your fairy skills, if aoe dmg went out but no more aoes are coming anytime soon use rouse + whispering dawn or fey illumination + whispering dawn instead of indomitability.


If we put the value of 1 aetherflow stack at 1200 MP (what ED restores), you're paying 1200 MP for 600 heal potency every time you lustrate, but two physicks are 800 heal potency for the same cost. In 8 man content let your cohealer's regen (if any) do their job instead of overhealing.

I'm oversimplifying the scenarios but the point is, play it smart with your AF stacks, most people I've met in DF waste their stacks panic-healing. If you check the top scholars in DPS rankings you will see a quite liberal usage of energy drain.

So I would say that no, it's not "almost universally better" to thoughtlessly burn your instant heals that cost 1200 MP in the same thread where people are complaining about lacks of way to recover MP. If you have to use them to keep people alive, do it, but if there's no emergency don't burn your AF stacks on nothing.

But I'm arguing about the effective use of the AF to alleviate a low mana situation, not what you can do to avoid the problem of low mana in the first place. The Fairy can't instant heal and while in a perfect world everyone can wait around and get healed back up to max in an efficient manner with physicks, in the content where we're concerned about our mana it's not the case. You need to move around, you need to make sure someone is topped off in case someone else fails a mechanic and it hits the rest of the group, it's a burst healer check and you need to burn through healing to keep everyone up. All of those situations are not moments where a healer has the luxury of letting the slow, small heals roll in.

When I'm low on mana and I've got AF stacks, I'm not concerned about DPS, I'm concerned about making sure everyone is staying alive. If I use what little possible healing I have at that time on a energy drain and someone dies because I DPS'ed instead of healed, it's completely my fault.
If I'm not facing a mana problem and I need to AF to be on cooldown; I throw a Excogitation on a tank that's expected to use it and use Lustrate where it's useful real quick.