Why not? I have no reason why not other then I have never needed it.  My concentration is in the low 60's.  Throw in dr, resists, protection, and absorption and my concentration is never broken.  Completely worthless on a sorc. 

For my cleric same deal.  Conc is never broken so BB lands just fine.  I typically cycle mass cures, I do not really use mass heal.  Might cost more sp wise, but I think you said it yourself right? If I am rich enough to never turn it off, I am rich enough to cycle mass cures which cast just fine. 

On my wizard I have considered taking it just because of all the metamagic reductions he has.  Just to boost the casting speed.


Anyways, my casters and cleric have no problem dumping their sp pool before the melee kill whatever it is.  This is an easily achieved feat without quicken.

I have no problem with the feat, perfectly fine choice.  I fail to see why  people see it as a must though.  Healed an elite ToD just fine without and edq, ev6.  Which pretty much sums the more difficult of the current endgame.  Which isn't saying much I know.

It is needed to maximize dps.  Quicken is needed to what?

I think everyone knows this.  Anyways, kiting isn't hard.  I fail to see how you find it to be.  I often times do not even need to heal.  The fact you talk about kiting like you NEED to heal every time shows you are doing it wrong.  Time for you to go back to ToD kiting school.

EDIT: I bet you stick to only running around the pillars.   

I can dump my full sp bar before melees take down any named in the game.  I do not see the point of having it.  Then again, I pug a lot.

i agree quicken is not needed if you run constantly with a good group of players who not only kill stuff fast, take little damage but also know how to keep agro off the healer. take that tod pre-quest (cant remember name, someone fill me in. its the one where you drop down pits to the next part and you fight in a circle in end room). most good parties are able to synchronise their timing and get out of the squares before the cursing blasts come in. in most parties (those before i left), its not uncommon for people to not time it for god knows wtf is the reason (unless guildies and friends) and fuck up the timing. in these instances i typically hit quicken up and then start to blade barrier it and let the idiots die. could i have done it w/o quicken? yes, but with quicken its pretty much no risk that i'll use up my sp before i kill the boss

A New Invasion.  And I agree Quicken is a crutch many use.  It's not a necessity but it certainly can come in handy and is a better choice than what most replace it with.