Quote Originally Posted by Sarim View Post
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AST’s Lightspeed has been reworked since 5.3 and onward: it no longers reduces MP cost. It’s purely mobility tool now that reduce all cast time by 2.5s. This DOES NOT make you cast anything faster. All this does is to frontload the next heal. If any, Lightspeed can be used to make it easier to weave your cards to your party with longer weaving window without clipping.

Essential being at 40s cooldown literally means it will -always- be available for 1 use every single pull. This is an advantage ASTs have over WHM because they can Gravity few more before they need to fall back to use Benefic II. Stacking asp helios regen at this level range may be a controversial method, but it adds a decent, comfy period of 300p regen for the tank of where you can safely push out more Gravities. Of course you’re not going to frontload these regens in middle of pull.

SGE’s Kardion has never been intended as their ‘main healing’ actions. It works like a maintenance healing but it adds up over time, similarly like SCH’s constant fairy embraces. The difference is SGE are rewarded more if they’re playing aggressively (to my opinion, they should). Do not underestimate Kardion/Embrace healing, they usually adds up to disgusting portion of SCH/SGE’s total healing. By the time you’ve exhausted third Druochole most of the mobs would’ve been dead or close to dying, there won’t be any need to ‘spam E.Diagnosis and hope for the best.’ This goes the same for SCHs too. Unless… if both DPSes are single targeting.

With all that I’ll have to respectfully disagree with your last paragraph. Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying ”LoL wHm CaN’t Do AnYtHiNg.”. I just genuinely feel devs are too scared in making their favorite healer job a liiitttle bit smoother and decided to put these weird limitations vs other healers cause it’s ‘simpler’. If it’s simpler then why make it harder vs the other?

This is why I’ve stopped suggesting newcomer healer to start with WHM…