SCH needs help

[Brandedblade]

Correct me if I’m wrong but.. wasn’t it a 300 total potency loss for every Misery? Glare is 300 potency and 4 GCDs worth is 1200 potency. You need to spend 4 GCDs to use Misery which amounts to 900 potency so that means you lose 300 potency overall. Unless I’m missing something?

That is correct, however, since Misery is an all or nothing mechanic if a situation calls for a single heal, an aetherflow heal will be more efficient then a single lily heal due to the Lily not being refunded until you spend more Lilies and use Misery. So until you have Misery each individual Lily is a 300 potency loss. Whereas Misery will refund 3 of the 4 gcds spent on the mechanic.

[Volkaj]

That is correct, however, since Misery is an all or nothing mechanic if a situation calls for a single heal, an aetherflow heal will be more efficient then a single lily heal due to the Lily not being refunded until you spend more Lilies and use Misery. So until you have Misery each individual Lily is a 300 potency loss. Whereas Misery will refund 3 of the 4 gcds spent on the mechanic.

Here a situation = the whole encounter. I have to point this out.
If there's enough damage going out to warrant 3 Lilies (even normal mode trials have enough) then Lilies are gonna be more efficient than Aetherflow-based heals.

Your mileage will vary based on your healing plan (if there's healing to be done in the last ~30s you're probably gonna want to use AF over Lilies for instance), but in general, over the course of an entire fight, Lilies will beat AF-based heals efficiency-wise.