Quote Originally Posted by kikix12 View Post
However, Final Sting is on Bee's that are in a dungeon where you either are a class (as in, Gladiator/Marauder)
Uh...Temple of Qarn is available at level 35, so there is no reason to be a class and not a job at level 35 since you obtain your job stone at level 30.

Also to be honest outside of savage "oh shi*" situations rarely happen and the fact that is it so rare makes it wasteful to hold on to abilities for an emergency that highly likely won't even happen. Not to mention using cooldowns actively helps prevent "oh shi*" situations reducing the likelihood even more.

Full wipes in normal content are really rare while in savage even just one person dying can and will cause a full wipe in certain situations so it is way more crucial that you save them. Even in Savage though depending on the difficulty like O4S for example...most healers have to follow a script of healing cooldowns in order to deal with the mechanics in an efficient way in order to keep everyone safely high HP, MP high, and in order to help with DPS to beat enrage.

So we usually cannot save things for emergencies we just have to pray it doesn't happen or adapt quick enough to make a save if it does. There are visual clues sometimes to help you see a problem is going to happen before it happens so you can react quicker with maybe timing a Cure II or something if Tetra or Bene is on cooldown and that can also be used for casual content as well.

Keeping track of what is on cooldown also helps you avoid relying on them when they aren't available. This is an efficient way to play because usually there is only one best way to contribute on your role so if Plan A is the most efficient best plan that allows you to contribute the most on your role then you follow that until you need to adapt then you can move to Plan B and structure yourself around that during the fight.

There is only so much you can do in the end so yeah you should try your best to play your job well to save an "oh shi*" situation if you can, but in general if you cannot the fault doesn't always lie with you anyway and saving your abilities might not have prevented it anyway. I mean as a WHM if people made multiple mistakes very close together and you used Bene, then Tetra, then Assize, then another person made another near fatal mistake as well soon after which could only be saved by an instant heal and you have none of those up. You just kinda go /shrug at that point, hope your co-healer can save them, and if not then be ready to scrape them off the floor instead.