Quote Originally Posted by ForsakenRoe View Post
I'm not inherently against a 1-2-3 if it's the only possible way we can get anything for the healers. But I'd rather look at 'literally any other solution' before resorting to 1-2-3 because I find that to be the most uncreative, and least 'design space opening' of the options.
It's not only lacking in creativity, it also doesn't actually solve the issue raised in this thread. You mentioned drift in your post, which may cause people to not use lilies if it costs them a cast of the 3rd step of their combo. But we could also look back on EW release when Misery was a damage loss, WHMs I met back then would barely heal, they relied entirely on Assize/Asylum/Lilybell because lilies were such a massive loss (losing 4 casts of 310 for a refund of 900, iirc).

Now, if a 1-2-3 combo gets implemented on a healer, it's reasonable to expect that they'd want to rebalance the damage output, they could do that by further reducing the potency of the DoT and adding it to the filler combo (or getting rid of the DoT entirely). This would end up hurting less experienced players who panic heal because every GCD not used on their filler combo will become even more damning to their damage output.