Hello!

For a while now I've been noticing that many healers just don't use specific abilities. Either only very rarely or never. Recently, I've also been in many practice, clear and then farm parties for Suzaku Ex as a healer and I've noticed this about my co-healers even more.

I'm not even talking about players that only rarely play healers and/or only stand there while pressing a heal button every 10 seconds. I'm actually talking about players who have at least a decent understanding on how healing works, are usually able to keep people alive, many of them even dps like normal and a lot of them even only have healers leveled and aren't undergeared. So while they aren't the best, they aren't really "bad" in fulfilling their role.

Have you noticed something like that too? What do you think why some healers don't use these abilities? It's always the same ones. Here are the abilities I noticed them not using:

WHM: Divine Benison and Asylum. Many WHMs just ignore these abilities completely. There are some fights where you can't get everything out of Asylum, like the last boss from Ridorana Lighthouse, because most times people are too spread out or the boss moves around. But for example in Suzaku Ex it's great. And then there is Divine Benison. I usually play WHM and use it for every tankbuster in that fight. That means that I'm not using it on CD, but if I did I wouldn't have it for the tankbuster and I just can't trust my co-healer to shield the tank or the tank to use the right defensive CD. When I'm on AST and I get a WHM as co-healer they just never use it at all.
(Also, many WHM don't ever use Presence of Mind, and Thin Air only rarely. WHM has the least buttons but so many WHM players don't use like half of them.)

SCH: Excogitation. They either never use it at all (and also only use like 2 Lustrates at max and like 3 Indomitabilitys - even though it IS needed), or if they do they use it pre-pull once so that its duration is over like 1 second before the first tankbuster and then they never use it at all anymore.
(Another case is with healers who refuse to dps. If they are SCH, why don't they at least use Shadow Flare? It is FREE and oGCD and doesn't hinder them in their healing.)

AST: Earthly Star. Most times I got ASTs as co-healers and most times they didn't use Earthy Star at all (and no, it's not that I'm spamming Cure III for raid-wide AoEs and they think Earthy Star is not needed - they rather cast Helios 2x). Some of them used it sometimes. Very few used it regularly. Yes, it's kind of more difficult to use than a normal healing spell that immediately takes effect. But if they can't plan when to place it, they could at least use it for the damage instead of ignoring it completely.