How to deal with Cure/Benefic 1?

[Iscah]

I wonder if you could merge Cure with the lily charges through an upgrade or trait? Something like "will be instant cast if you have a lily, otherwise it has charge time and MP cost?

[Rongway]

I wonder if you could merge Cure with the lily charges through an upgrade or trait? Something like "will be instant cast if you have a lily, otherwise it has charge time and MP cost?

This is how Solace and Rapture should work, rather than being two extra buttons.

Secret of the Lily: While one or more lilies are in bloom, Cure II is upgraded to Afflatus Solace, reducing both its cast time and MP cost to 0.

Secret of the Lily II: While one or more lilies are in bloom, Medica is upgraded to Afflatus Rapture, reducing both its cast time and MP cost to 0.

We shouldn't have two buttons for each spell.


Cure I and Benefic I though...as it is, their bonus procs aren't really worth it--we just skip over them for the more potent spell because that means fewer healing spells to cast. They could benefit from having more interesting traits. Maybe something like, "Cure has a xx% chance to make the next Cure II apply Stoneskin, shielding the target for yy" or "Benefic has a xx% to cause your next Benefic II to apply [some new arcanum with some sort of interesting effect]."

[Liam_Harper]

To be fair, it's not like they haven't tried. On paper, Cure is a great ability. It gives you a weave/movement window, it's more mana efficient than Cure II and it comes with a decent proc. The problem is with how the game is designed. Saving a GCD is just too good.

Maybe it should be the other way around and Cure II should have a chance to proc an instant Cure I?