Comments on: Healing Rotation: Good Idea or Bad Idea?

By: Serendipity

Serendipity — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:29:06 +0000

I agree. Healing and the words spell rotation shouldn’t be used in the same sentence. Healing is very situational. You can’t always rely on a set cycle of spells to use or a lot of times, you are just throwing away mana.

Additionally, as far as Disc priests go, I think the biggest problem going for them is players not understanding how to play or gear a disc priest correctly. Other than PvP or making a hybrid build to the IMP:DS 31 point talent (pre-Wrath), there wasn’t much use for Disc in a raid setting.

I can definitely see the improvements and I have been intrigued enough to try a Disc build in the future for raiding.

By: Fain

Fain — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:04:46 +0000

I think the closest I come to a “healing rotation” is the fact that the MT is going to get smacked with PoM almost immediately after he hits his target. Or perhaps on Patchwerk, where my assign is usually to shield the tanks and help keep them all alive.

We’re a reactionary bunch by nature. Not all fights are the same, not all healers are the same, and not all players are the same. Changing up the MT for the night (assuming I’m on MT heals that night) will sometimes drastically change the way I use spells that fight. (For example, our prot paladin takes so little damage that if I shield him every time it’s up (so that Renewed Hope is in effect) then he tends to get mana-starved.)

I do wish they’d drop the CD on Pain Supression a bit. Even with 2/2 in Aspiration we really don’t tend to be able to use it more than once or twice per fight.

By: BobTurkey

BobTurkey — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:05:21 +0000

LOL of course Disc can heal in raids. I didn't realise this was still an unknown. I've never been asked to respec Holy to raid and, as far as i'm aware, i've never been passed up for a slot because i'm Disc. Gobble gobble. BobTurkeys last blog post..Updated Priest Stat Targets

By: Cringer

Cringer — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:26:27 +0000

MATT! Thanks for the video. That made my day. Hasek was my hero growing up. My grandfather is Czech so we cheered him on in the 1998 olympics. I always wanted to play goalie growing up, but my dad always told me “We can’t afford dental for you so your not playing goalie.”

PS – I was watching #2 on the list live when it happened. That was amazing.

By: Boondockst

Boondockst — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:43:32 +0000

Yes, I think that it will help, but it needs to be a passive bonus that we dont have to pay attention to.
I’m referring to the holy talent that will increase crit or the amount healed (not sure which it is) when the target is below a certain % or the borrowed time effect. Adding in haste when we use a certain spell is awesome, and I think if they added in a way to make more crits or the heals in general stronger is best, but not the way GC said it.
His example (of weaving) actually scares me a lil. I will use a less efficient heal or ability over and over again, just so I can get this other effect to occur. I can see this now: we are healing the tank: flash, flash, flash, flash, oh shit! I cant keep up with the dmg, but I need to cast the next flash to get my super-crit-acular greater heal, but I cant afford to cast another flash b/c I need the greater’s throughout now and if I dont cast the flash now, I will loose the stack that I already built up…. shit, the tank just died.
My point is, we need to keep these abilities as simple as possible, and GC’s was just awkward.

By: Hobert

Hobert — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:10:59 +0000

I don’t like the word rotation in reference to healing. The closest I’ve gotten to healing with a rotation was timing Lifebloom-blooms on Lotheb and I don’t like it.

Swiftmend really is fun. I love the way druids heals work. Nourish working better after the application of hots, crits procing Nature’s Grace, etc.

Druid healing spells work well together. They make you think before you use them, but not too much. I don’t need to get out my calculator to decide what spell to use… I’ve just learned it so knowing when to hit Swiftmend or Lifebloom automatic.

By: dscomboulat

dscomboulat — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:39:38 +0000

shyraia exactly. and if they add more “rotation” or watch for this or that to proc and do this its going to kill what I love about the class. versitility. in my opinion its one NON boring healing class atm. I don’t want my casts to be determined by a RNG

By: Shyraia

Shyraia — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:29:22 +0000

Cast the spell that is needed for the situation, not the spell that procs the shinies or that gets you the highest meters.

By: Frnit

Frnit — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:53:55 +0000

WTB reliable way to tell why going disci drops my coh/pom/renew spamming aoe HPS (recount ftl) cos im singletank healing and thus become a ‘bad tank healer with low hps (*Recount spam here*), can you even keep them up?!’

Grabbing the modified recount from wowhead ( http://www.wowhead.com/?forums&topic=68238&p=725586 ) would seem bit cheapy too, it seems to differ from the “official” meter bit too much to be guild-trusted by the non understanding rogues

Sorry for the offtopic, reading your posts and other blogs/forums made me believe I’m not the only one having a quite loss of output going from aoehealspam to singletarget shielding (yeah, that’s a very rough exaggeration)

By: Spinks

Spinks — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:37:46 +0000

I think priest healing could use something to make it more interesting. Back in the days of downranking you could save some mana if you were smart enough to use the right heals and it felt as though you had more to choose from.

But comparing it to (frex) druid healing now, I know which is more fun. Looking forwards to seeing what they come up with, it’s been a long time coming.