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EDIT: Hm...I dunno, I just find it very limited being single target and SGE having no Deployment Tactics-like mechanic. Krasis, that is. SCH with Recitation and Protraction makes sense because I can Spredlo the super shield it generates with Adlo. SGE doesn't have that, so I tend not to think of it that way. Though I guess I DO use Zoe like that. I also often use Zoe with Pneuma because...it's a frankly absurd amount of healing. 600 + 50% is a 900 potency AOE heal for the entire party. It's like party-wide Cure 2 that also shoots a big flashy laser that...well...only does 1 Dosis worth of damage, but it still looks pretty. Party Cure 2 is just bonkers. It's actually stronger than that, since Cure 2 is only 800 potency (1/8th or 12.5% stronger). Pneuma is the same heal as Cure 3 (though DPS neutral), but with Zoe, it's probably the most powerful bulk heal in the game. AST may have something crazy, but I don't know that WHM or SCH have, under self buffs only, anything to match that level of raw healing. MAYBE Fey Illumination + Recitation + Indom on SCH.

WHM can provide more healing via sustain, and Cure 3 + Assize weave does a bit more (1,000 partywide), but requires Assize being up.

Needless to say, pairing Zoe with Pneuma can generate some nice results.

Though I didn't think Krasis boosted Kardia/Soteria healing. I guess I hadn't considered Dosis' healing to be classified as a "healing spell" as I thought the Kardion effect was kind of its own thing. But if so, that's amazing. Going to have to keep that one in my back pocket now.
Yep, you're right that Kardia heals aren't a healing 'spell', but since Krasis says 'healing actions', it affects everything. GCDs, OGCDs, Kardia, incidental selfhealing from Souleater/Path/BrutalShell/HolySpirit, etc. Week 1 WAR in P7S was hilarious, as you could just Krasis-Soteria them for the TB bleed, and their '2700 total potency' Equilibrium would handle it almost all on it's own. I do Krasis Physis Kerachole on every pull, so the Physis regen is buffed by Krasis, and the Kera regen by both. I'm aware of the whole Zoe-Pneuma thing, but there's also times I'll use it on E-Prog during, well, prog, for a bigger safety shield. As for what other classes can do to match it, Cure3+Plenary is 800, and you can get 4 of them in PI's 10sec window. Without losing DPS, charged Star is 720, and PI Rapture is 600, so those are 'equal to Pneuma' at least. Macrocosmos is Macro, and instantly detonating Lily (while being a complete waste) would be 1000. SCH is unique I guess, in that it's not actually so great at recovering lost HP, instead being VERY good at making sure it wasn't lost in the first place. The point of the pic is to show, 'this is how little I need to complete an EX', and I don't mean in an ego sense, I mean 'we need to stop giving healers more healing tools every expansion, because we just don't need them all'. In higher content, yeh I'll use more of them. Heck, Pepsis gets used (sometimes) in P8S like, once, for a HPS check. But if we go to next expansion, and we have 3 more healing skills added, chances are that'd just mean 3 more red X's on the pic.

As for whether I'd be willing to flex in the week 1 hypothetical, it depends on the balance. I'm assuming HPS total required would be the same as now, just redistributed from the 'supports' to the 'dedicateds', in which case, probably not. I didn't find stuff like JWaves interesting, cos my job there was to press Medica a lot, and then when it got to 5 stacks, press Temperance and start using Cure3 instead. Instead, rationing out multiple CDs for Dominion's 3 waves of damage, factoring in other people's mits, having to think 'the DRK can't get this with Missionary, because it's physical', etc, feels a lot more interesting to me. If they ever bring back stuff like 'actually managing your MP economy', maybe, but that'd require them to make Piety not-trash