Quote Originally Posted by ForsakenRoe View Post
If any healer could do with 'increase the job's maximum combined DPS+HPS under optimized conditions', let's be real, it's WHM. Back when Misery became DPS neutral, I had a shortlist of things I hoped for with WHM. Misery being 'less DPS taxing' (my method was by making it an OGCD, thereby changing it to be only 30p loss, easily made up for by raidbuffs), Assize 2 charges (so you could hold one for healing purposes with small DPS loss, due to not being in raidbuff), Tetra 2 charges (at 700p, AST's Essential averages to 700 and has 40s CD, come on SE), and most importantly for the point here, Lilybell reduced either to a 120s CD, or to 90s CD, with 3 stacks. At the time Macrocosmos was all the rage in the memes because of P3S, and my thinking was that we can make Lilybell competitive with Macro not on power (there's no matching it), but 'availability'. If it's up twice as often as Macro, it's more versatile as a tool, whereas Macro does one thing, but very very well.
Oh, agreed. For sure. Especially if this were the patch before the Lily buffs. My focus was more on just the kind of thing you're doing with Lily here. If something has on-paper parity but the difference in how well particular tools fit the actual contexts, then we either need to allow for some on-paper imbalance to compensate or we need to differently split up the less fit powers to bring their in-practice performance nearer to expectation.

Sorry that my latest posts have been distracted. Only time I've had to post, let alone collect my thoughts, has been small breaks between tutoring sessions.