Quote Originally Posted by tdb View Post

Incidentally, my rarest-used skill is probably Cure III. I've been trying to teach myself to use it in grouping situations, but Medica is more versatile thanks to the much bigger radius so I instinctively go for that.
To be fair I don't know that the OP was necessarily referencing dungeons here but I do think that it's harder to keep your oGCDs on CD in a dungeon as opposed to a trial/raid. In dungeons there's a lot of down time running from pack to pack and you also don't have a cohealer that you're coordinating with.

The best advice I can offer us just to try to use things more. Using MP tools when youre low on MP is like putting a bandaid on a cut you made yourself - cut out the middle man, just use them whenever they're up and make sense.

For dungeoning on WHM I tend to Thin Air the first pull alongside PoM for Holy spam then rotate Thin Air and Lucid from there.

Overall the whole point is to stick as many abilities on CD as quickly as you can (while not wasting them) so that you get more uses out of them over the course of an encounter. Even something like Asylum when combined with a Regen on a tank can basically make him self-sufficent for quite a while during a boss fight, even better if you're popping DB as it comes up to give the HoTs time to tick up any missing HP. There you go, that could be a couple of Cure II GCDs that you can turn into Stone IVs now \o/

Cure III in casual content is often drastic overkill and I wouldn't worry about not using it much in dungeons specifically. I'd avoid Medica though - my rule of thumb is that it's a real last resort. If it isn't enough damage to justify a Medica II it can probably just wait for Assize to come off CD or get ticked up naturally. Or, again, there's always asylum.

As to the OP - yeah, it's sad when you see this. I still struggle to use Largesse more. I don't understand the concept of holding onto CDs without a specific mechanic in mind (like Bene for Holmgang/LD or something) but this is my personal struggle.