How could we meaningfully reincorporate MP, by that or any other name for a granular gauge to see use alongside HP, into each job? What functions or purposes should that gauge serve?
Parameters for the discussion:
Meaningful uses of MP
  • Dark Knight MP usage, as MP must still be banked (when running raid buffs) and margins left for TBN.
  • Thin Air, though less so as MP would already be very nearly a non-issue to WHM except in solo-healing against heavy raid damage, during death-swept trainwrecks, or combinations of the two.
  • BLM.
Marginally meaningful uses of MP
  • PLD's MP usage, as for the time being Clemency is situational and Holy Spirit a potency-efficiency loss outside of chained casts in Requiescat. The whole gauge could be effectively be reduced to a counter.
  • Other healer's MP usage, as MP expenditure at least doubles down on punishing overhealing against raidwide damage? Maybe?
Insignificant uses of MP
  • Current Caster use of MP outside of BLM. Merely acts as an available rez-count/meter, which is itself rather controversial and likely should be replaced with more consistent and integral pDPS costs with use (rather than a flat tax regardless of actual use, if the devs choose to balance around its maximal use in all cases).
Zero use of MP
  • Everyone else.