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[Petrus]

I do get what you're saying, but I've still got a couple issues with it.

First off, you can't time a fight to end it with 10 - 20% force, and you can't not worry about your mana. There ARE a lot of opportunities to regen mana, but only if your raid provides them. Every single one of them can be taken away by a mistake a player makes. The point is, you need to keep your force up all the time if possible, because you never know what's going to happen next.

Secondly, just a little point - Revivification actually doesn't make up much of our heals in EC (except on minesweeper) because depending on your strat it may only hit 1 or 2 people. Resurgence or Innervate are almost always my top heals - and that's casting revivification on every CD.


As far as the fact that you can heal more if you use consumption less - sure, that's true. I don't know if I agree with 300 HPS, especially since I've yet to be in a fight that requires 100% uptime on healing. Even if it's true though, again, it's not about the healing done - it's about keeping people alive and having the right tools for the job. I'd rather do 500 less HPS but always have the force I need to heal as much as I need, than do more healing but run into situations where I miss a regen phase and we have to wipe.


And any force we have is potential energy. I wouldn't call a full force bar at the end of a fight "wasted", I'd call it "utilizing our abilities". The more force we have, the longer/better we can heal for. That's a tool right there that we can't ignore. There are several bosses where at 15 seconds before the boss dies they can do massive damage - and you need that full(ish) force in case that happens.