Quote Originally Posted by Zhevons View Post
I find this thread funny in a sense. There are way too many assumptions going on here for any of it be able to be discussed in such a direct way. First, the topic of Lillies. Who says it will remain a Dps loss ? If healers, in general, will be forced to use more gcd heals, using Lillies becomes very optimal for Whm to do. Not only does it advance towards the Blood Lilly it also costs no mana. Helping to aid in the issue and resulting not in a DPS loss, but a DPS gain and MP gain. If fights are tuned to require healers to cast more GCD heals, then WHM's issues discussed in this thread disappear. And since we do not know if this will be a fact or not, it's a possibility on an equal level of what is being discussed here so far. So to say it's DOOMED is far too premature.
Even if we need more GCD heals and a WHM has to use their entire lily stock to heal, AST will heal that same damage for free with oGCD's. Lilies will always be a dps loss because comparatively their competitor (AST) heals the same, or more, without any potency loss at all. If we need even more GCD heals, WHM will be worse off because it will have to exhaust all their lilies (each one a potency loss), then dip into Medica II's (310 loss). AST on the other hand will cover a larger bulk at 0 potency loss with their huge range of oGCD's, then if they have to dip into AspHelios, they're only losing 250 potency a cast.

Sadly, yet again WHM will only shine if there's barely anything to heal. Then they can lean on their co-heal to take care of the bulk of the damage and save their lilies for downtime where the boss can't be targeted, or blow their lilies between pulls in dungeons.