Whm

[NobleWinter]

As a powerhouse Healer WHM can use it's healing abilities more frequently as it's gimmick. This gimmick shines in terrible situations. If your tank is under geared and your dps think red areas are for an experience boost than the lillies suddenly do a lot and help out in every single pull in a dungeon. The play style "benefits" tremendously from lillies but its a class tuned for learning and progression while Scholar and Astro are tuned for high skill parties and speed skills. All Healers can clear all content but they clearly have different purposes in their design.

[Myrhn]

As a powerhouse Healer WHM can use it's healing abilities more frequently as it's gimmick. This gimmick shines in terrible situations. If your tank is under geared and your dps think red areas are for an experience boost than the lillies suddenly do a lot and help out in every single pull in a dungeon. The play style "benefits" tremendously from lillies but its a class tuned for learning and progression while Scholar and Astro are tuned for high skill parties and speed skills. All Healers can clear all content but they clearly have different purposes in their design.

How often a flat % cooldown reduction from 5 abilities change the course of an encounter? Even with the best case have 3 lilies that is a 20% reduction make it or break you saving people. Right now is better to use your abilities according and dont wait and depend at all how many lilies your have. I just think taking the lilies away wont change anything that a whm can do, thats just bad and sad.

[Tridus]

As a powerhouse Healer WHM can use it's healing abilities more frequently as it's gimmick. This gimmick shines in terrible situations. If your tank is under geared and your dps think red areas are for an experience boost than the lillies suddenly do a lot and help out in every single pull in a dungeon. The play style "benefits" tremendously from lillies but its a class tuned for learning and progression while Scholar and Astro are tuned for high skill parties and speed skills. All Healers can clear all content but they clearly have different purposes in their design.

No, the gimmick shines never. In a terrible situation, it takes five minutes to get an extra use out of Assize if you only use it when you have maxed out lilies vs no lilies at all. And that requires you to get max lilies lined up for every Assize, which requires not using them on something else. So while you're busy in a terrible situation you need to actively acquire lilies and actively avoid using Tetra/DB/Asylum when Assize's CD is nearly up, five times, in order to get anything meaningful out of lilies.

It's a trap. Trying to do that is something newbie WHMs do, with the games encouragement. It's just a distraction that makes life harder for little benefit. Veteran WHMs will ignore the lilies entirely and simply use the toolkit on hand to deal with whatever is going wrong.

There's a reason why common advice for new WHM players is "hide the lily gauge and pretend it doesn't exist." That will give you better results than if you focus on lilies.