Quote Originally Posted by Exiled_Tonberry View Post
The fairy guage is pretty pointless, but it does still directly tie in to your use of aetherflow and rewards you with a massive single target regen. Obviously you were going to use aetherflow regardless, but the point is the guage encourages that.

Now imagine the guage only filled through the use of Physick casts, something a SCH almost never casts and is in no way beneficial to the job. That's pretty much lilies, it's not only useless but goes against how a WHM should even be played.
I disagree I think the fairy gauge is pretty good and not useless. It's linked to the strongest regen in the game, Fey Union. Locking it behind Aetherflow is good design which means you can't abuse it too much and it's part of the core rotation of the job. I'm sure they'll add more to it come SHB too. Like you said the problem with Lilies is that it's locked behind GCDs but that's not the only problem. The main problem is that it reduces certain skills recast times which is horrible design, especially on healers. The problem with recast on healers is that 1. You're not even Guaranteed an extra use if you use it on CD and 2. Because you map out your healing cooldowns even if they do come up early you're not just going to use it. You're going to save it for effective healing. You're not just going to use Asylum when the party is full HP and there's no damage going out. Same with Tetra. If anything this skill really effects Assize and DB. Which leads to another issue. As soon as you use it on one of the skills, Assize, Tetra, Asylum or Divine Benison it eats all your lilys. So if you have a coordinated spot where you want to use a CD like Asylum but don't want to use your lily's on it then you're screwed.