Developers : Healer design mentality needs to change

[Packetdancer]

It is similar to how Benediction is intended to be used as an Emergency Full Heal button but tends to be more used as a way to quickly recover after spamming a bunch of Glares/Holies due to fights lasting long enough that it comes off cooldown multiple times in the fight.

Benediction may often get used as an Emergency Full Heal button, but I would argue that's not its most optimal use (and I suspect not the intended use). In casual content in particular, I will frequently allow a tank drop to 20% health or so while doing damage or whatever, then hit them with a Benediction in order to top them off. That lets me use one oGCD to heal them to full, rather than using, say, three GCDs (three lilies), or two GCDs (lilies) and an oGCD (Tetra), or whatever. It's vastly more efficient -- especially since when I play WHM my oGCD healing options are considerably more limited than when I play, say, AST. As WHM I've got basically three immediate healing options for oGCD (Tetra, Benediction, and Assize), four if you count Divine Benison's shield as healing, and one of those (Assize) is really more a damage ability with a convenient healing side-effect.

Plus, if I reserve Benediction as only an emergency panic button, 95% of the time I will never end up using it at all during a run.

Lilies today are able to be used for healing-on-the-move mechanics because WHM has the least mobility in this game, not BLM.

*quietly sneaks over to BLM, casts Respose to knock them out, steals Triplecast, flees the scene*