There are scores of garbage healers who think cures are an extremist measure, only to be used in the most dire of circumstances. These healers are also content with xp in the range of 15K/hr or less. To the guy who made the excellent point on how much mp is restored vs spent, I'd like to add that /SCH adds another dimension to that.
Personally, I eschew the bird camp, for the following reasons:
1) It's a pain in the ass to run all the way out there and find out it's full, which it always is.
2) I merit with the same 7-8 people on a regular basis, and we are disappointed to see less than 20K/hr on the bridge near Cerberus. That's right, stoneskin-spamming trolls.
Yesterday we were looking at just under 25K/hr, so at that point the bird camp becomes unimpressive. For those interested, the party setup was a relic NIN, a Ridill/Ebody WAR, a WAR/SAM(me), a BRD, a WH/SCH and a COR.
Just did another bird pt and still just not see'ing how some mnks can average so low on asurans. Even using faith baghs, (Dmg+11 vs destroyer's dmg+ 18 ) I was able to maintain over 800 average
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