Quote Originally Posted by EaMett View Post
This actually hits close to the issue for us career healers. The reality is that cure I and II have had very little use since HW. It’s very situational and using them generally means you could have done something better. If you were to use a single target GCD skill, regen was the way to go.
In general you might cure once or twice in ex roulette because someone messed up and maybe a handful of times in ~10mn savage runs (mostly during prog). This was the state before they implemented lilies.
When the mechanic was released in SB the idea that anyone could build 3 lilies even if cure proc was 100% (like what they changed it to) before using assize or some other cd was ridiculous, and the reduced cooldown didn’t really help with anything on top of that.
Cure has so little use that they even acknowledged it later in the expansion and removed benison from the lily system completely and later fixed the lilies with the current system. It took them 2 years.

The point is that a lot of the changes we’ve had over these past 4 years were made without career healers in mind. People who play healer enough that they’ve at least optimized a bit. I don’t know if this was on purpose or not but lilies missed the mark so much that I think it’s safe to assume game designers have a casual level of experience playing healer. Them removing ED this expansion or them even talking about pure healing tends to lend validity to that claim (95% of content requires less than 10% healing uptime)
Wait wait wait wait......Cure 1 and 2 arn't being used? What the heck are people doing as a Whm then? NOT healing till a Lily pops, and just using Insta casts and waiting for the CDs? Thats madness! Or are they just casting Medica and Medica 2 or Cure 3? all of which eats up way more MP if they are being used exclusively.
This makes no sense to me unless your only doing ARR content. That or people are just making the choice NOT to use Cure 1 & 2. Which even then makes no sense. I dont understand the healer community if this is a widespread issue.
The Lily system was FINE. They just Improved it for the next expansion. What you expect things to stay the same through a whole game? No, things change and get adjusted.

More and More Im just starting to think Im to casual to understand half the issues people present to me. Because Ive have Zero issues as a White Mage Main, but people wanna tell me my Lily kit was broken and bad. At the start yes, but it got fixed and I had nothing but fun. And here comes other people telling me it was bad. IDK....Im not seeing it or getting it.