A summary of healer issues

[Renathras]

That's an easy fix honestly. Just make Cure 2 have the same cast time. The fact they made the cast time changes to Glare and not the whole kit was just a bizarre change really.

I agree with this.

AST does this already MORE OR LESS. Benefic and Benefic 2 both have a 1.5 sec cast time. The only difference is Benefic 2 has a 700 MP cost vs Benific 1's 400. (Cure 2 and Cure 1 have the same deal, just 800 and 400). If they reduced the MP cost of Benefic 2 and Cure 2 to 400, they could make them straight upgrades. They could even make them a bit different - for example, maybe Benefic 2 is a 500 Potency heal with a 100 Potency DoT that ticks three times, once right away, once at 3 sec, and again at 6 sec (800 total) and Cure 2 is a straight 700 Potency heal, a bit weaker but more direct. AST has Essential Dignity super early to patch the damage more if that's too slow, and WHM is supposed to be the more simple and direct healer. For low level content, that'd be fine, even overwriting the HoT some would be fine.

But even just making them straight upgrades would be fine if they WERE straight upgrades.

The problem right now is they aren't because the 2 versions cost more MP (meaning spamming them makes you OOM faster - that is not an upgrade), and in the case of Cure 2, even have a longer cast time (which is a downgrade)

[Maltothoris]

(Cure 2 and Cure 1 have the same deal, just 800 and 400).

Correction on the mp cost, cure 1 is 400, cure 2 is 1000. THis is the same mp cost as Medica 2 which means you're getting less with this single target heal instead of the aoe regen. There shouldn't be any case to even use cure 1 or cure 2 at this point when regen is more than sufficient to cover the hp which there isn't a lily to cover things.