The dev's seem quite determined not to have healers use their class resources on damage. The idea of Misery is that you refund some of your dps loss from healing.

That being said, I think a minor raid buff would be a fair trade.

This would also be a good reason to bring back Protect, name it something like "Afflatus Whatever" and make it a 10-20% damage reduction on a target. Or like an Afflatus Something that increased the damage nearby allies do by like 3%

Hopefully going forward the dev's will expand on the afflatus line and gives whms some great tools. I do think that a straight damage lily spender would not be a good design because then thats all some players would want to use it on.