Quote Originally Posted by Liam_Harper View Post
Cure III requires placement, it doesn't really reward it. It's 400 less potency than Medica II and only just equal to a Plenary Rapture. The only place Cure III ever shone was rare mechanics with continuous high damage, such as Tumult or Terminal during prog. Now Lilybell does that job. There is almost no place for a 600 potency GCD with such limitations. 600 isn't even that great anymore.

While Star is absurd, I can see why they did it. The unfortunate reality is you have no control over whether players stand in Asylum or Cure III radius. Especially in content like Alliance raids, these abilities often just won't catch everyone and you'll be forced to GCD heal for the 3 people out in Narnia. The idea of a reward for placement sounds good, but the content doesn't allow for it outside of organized high end raids and trials.

There's also the obvious fact that giving one pure healer a massive radius on their ground placement heal and not the other, puts the first at a massive advantage. Why play WHM and try to get people to bunch up for your mana draining 600 potency GCD, when AST is detonating a free 720 potency nuclear heal-bomb that even deals damage instead of costing it.
I would be all for a heal four that really hones in the fact the white mage is the defacto king of pure healing by providing a % based regen effect based on health that provides more healing as the target gets weaker. A supreme heal defining spell maybe. Cure 4 600 potency+regen 2.