Quote Originally Posted by RiyahArp View Post
Stoneskin has a much longer duration, can be applied out of combat, and had an aoe form that could be used prepull. It also can be used on someone outside your party. Benison is not superior, not by a longshot.
I was a proponent for Divine Benison being better than Stoneskin even before the Lily change and it's even better now that is has no Lily cost. A 0MP oGCD that provides more mitigation than non-traited Stoneskin meant it would be used significantly more often than Stoneskin. Stoneskin suffered from being inefficient when Cure II would cast faster and provide more HP than Stoneskin's eHP - especially if the target was a non-tank. Duration of Stoneskin means nothing when most of the buff wouldn't even last beyond 10 seconds on a tank.

Divine Benison fixed everything that made Stoneskin horribly inefficient and gave a very powerful tool to the WHM kit in the process. I believe that Divine Benison is miles ahead of the old Stoneskin iterations.