on pally char screen it says that meditation benefits from prayer and cleansing. I understand it gets the pulse heal from prayer as synergy but what does it get from cleansing? curse reduce, psn resist as well?

It does indeed. Of note it will also reduce shrines as well so running with a healer using medi (also from insight has same function) they last about 5 seconds or so. You do not gain the psn res as you would from cleansing, however. That only works if cleansing is active. You can when using an insight also run prayer for a "double-dip" of healing power as both pulses will heal. Same applies to an act2 recovery merc, giving him insight double his heal pulses for the party. One final piece of information, the benefits of medi do not extend to your merc as they do not have a mana pool, medi won't heal them.

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