Setting Cure on PLD

[ZenBear]

Cure is very useful in my opinion. It's saved me many times, and I've even been able to finish out a boss fight when my healer died; Sunken Temple 1st boss, healer was killed by Doom with boss at 1/2 health and I self-cured my way through it.

You're never at a loss for MP, shallow though our pool is, because you don't ever need to spam Flash. The MP just sits there, so trade it for some HP from time to time. It's not a lot, but every bit counts and 2 cures from you is roughly 1 Physic or 2/3 a CNJ/WHM Cure.

[Arkine]

I honestly miss Holy Succor, but as people already said, you use cure with a bunch of -dmg% abilities and conv to refill your hp up.

I honestly wish Spirits within worked like inner beast though...

[kro]

Why does nobody mention Stoneskin?

Stoneskin is better than Cure. At 10% of your max HP, Stoneskin should be blocking 450-550 damage. It's more MP efficient than Cure especially at higher health levels and it has no MND dependency. Stoneskin casts just as fast as Cure in this game with zero recast. This isn't FFXI or 1.23.

In situations where you are actually in danger of dying, a WHM will always cast Cure or Regen. You shouldn't need to worry about your Stoneskin overlapping with theirs. Stoneskin stacks with SCH shields too.

[Nailkita]

Cure is a nice little thing to have on hand, as someone else said stoneskin may be better for self survivability, but then that's not as useful if you have a WHM giving graniteskin. (kro: I'm not clear does WHM stoneskin and PLD stoneskin stack?)

A baddie example of cure being useful though, we were on the last boss of Stone Vigil, and things got a little out of hand (a dps stood in front of the dragon and got one shot fairly early on and I didn't have opportunity to rez him) so the fight was taking longer than it should. My pocket tank saw that I was a bit overwhelmed with the long fight and aoe dmg, threw me a couple heals so that I could get back on track.

So cure not so much for keeping yourself alive since you may get interrupted anyways, but for easing a bad situation.

That's another thing with Stoneskin, it's more a before the fight thing, because its cast time is pretty long, I find as WHM I get interrupted if something's hitting me while I use it.