Quote Originally Posted by Sebazy View Post
I simply don't understand why you are hating on it in the way that you are.
Best I can figure they’re implying that you should just hold the current iteration if spamming it makes healing uncomfortable. Which ignores that it is ultimately more effective to plan healing around Assize being spammed rather than treat it as a regular healing resource in its current iteration. It’s not -just- a healing resource. And focusing on the MP and DPS gains for spamming it on cooldown are more rewarding than they are giving credit to.

Just as an example of this, let’s look at SCH’s Energy Drain. In order for holding Assize to be worth more than it, you have to hold it for less than 11.25 seconds. If that Energy Drain can go to an Indom or Soil instead and you have to hold it for longer, then Assize is better off being spent then and there. From this we can assume that Sage will just deal with it since there’s no reason not to, Meanwhile AST’s new Star can throw a wrench in this but with WHM/AST being a non-standard pairing now we’re less likely to see this. Ultimately you just use both as many times as you can get away with and let the AST worry about the drift later.