Quote Originally Posted by Lordfurious View Post
I would maybe by 900 I'm not buying 1200. In fact are you want to go lower than that I'm thinking 800 and here's why; if a tank pops holmgamg and is at 1 mp.
Benediction will bring them to full.
To lustrates will bring the tank to 3/4 health
One essential dignity the tank is about 50%.

I'm not sure what this rigorous testing involved but apparently it doesn't involve linking any proof to back up the numbers that you're putting down there for their fictitious. We know for a fact that lustrate is 600. To lust rates to bring the tank to 3/4 health at 1200 cure potency. Well then there's just no way that essential dignity can be the same if it's 1/4 less. So here's my simple mathematics 1/4 less of 1200 is 300. That's roughly a cure potency of 900 so I still think that that 1,000 is inflated.

I don't know who these people are that did this rigorous testing to get to their inflated number but I don't buy it. When Square Enix publishes a number I will believe it. And this right here is one of the biggest problems with the forums you're presenting something as fact with no proof to back it up other than was so and so did a test and well they knew what they were doing. That doesn't cut it and even if had they had meters to show me I still wouldn't buy it. I only trust and rely on the numbers Square Enix has provided.
Since my healers all possess relatively the same ilvl; AST is actually the lowest. I opted to test this myself. Essentially did 10,000 more than Lustrate and roughly 8,000 more than Tetra. Keep in mind, this is based on a healer who quickly swapped from a crafter back to AST. ED would be even higher on a tank. Now since you insist on comparing ED against Benediction, let's estimate ED heals for a conservative 25,000 (it's usually much higher but we're going to lowball it). Over a three minute duration, that means you'll have four uses of ED (100,000 healing) in the same span of time. Much like why Holmgang is considered widely superior to Hallowed Ground, the sheer availability makes ED a significantly better cooldown because outside panic moments, you never need Benediction. Is it a nice CD to have? Of course, but even Living Dead can be healed pretty rapidly through a Lustrate + ED combo.

Quote Originally Posted by Lordfurious View Post
Actually I'm new to forums and I would like all of my comments removed I find all the people in the forms here not helpful you offer opinion,and everyone here wants to fight and get off topic. And then the community wonders why they cannot retain new blood we show up once in awhile but then have to listen to the bickering and arguing like what's happening here over off topic stupidity. Fact: the dev said there needs to be a balance that the healers are not balanced. So instead of everybody that's here trying to make an argument saying that the healers are balanced maybe you should sit down and read the letter from the editor that outlines specifically why we are not getting a forth healer and that is because the developer says there's imbalance in the healing and it's going to take this amount of time to be able to create that balance. But thank you everybody for ruining my forum experience. But mostly thank you for the misinformation and fictitious numbers associated with some of the skills.
Perhaps people would be more receptive if your attitude didn't amount to "I'm right and you're just dumb." Whenever someone disagrees or even offers advice which counters your opinion, you insist your experience has been ruined or our numbers are fictitious. Alright then, may I request your extensive healing experience in this game? Do you theorycraft, analyse, or even complete high end content at a solid level? No? Then how can you so confidently claim your numbers are factual when arguing against players with said experience? If this is an example of the "new blood" we're supposed to welcome. Once again, I think we'll pass.