05-02-2006, 07:26 PM
The way I had it suggested to me that Swiftmend would work is that it'd behave like the Warlock talent Conflagrate. Here's the quote:
Rank 8 Immolate costs 380 mana and does 279 fire damage directly, then 510 fire damage over 15 seconds.
So, for comparison, let's imagine that we're casting Swiftmend on someone who's already affected by Regrowth.
Regrowth rank 9 takes 880 mana, heals for 1003-1119, then 1064 over 21 seconds. I speculate that Swiftmend would then take 440 mana, and would convert whatever remained of the Regrowth effect into a 600 point instant heal. Probably the healing done would be affected by instacast spell rules, i.e. only what, 33% of +heal is applied, so for someone with 400-ish healing, you'd get 732 healing. Regrowth itself should get about 66% of the +heal, or something, so +264. Total, 3121 heal for 1320 mana, or 2.36 heal/mana.
By comparison, rank 11 healing touch: 800 mana for 2267-2677 healing, plus another 400 from +healing gear, so 3.59 heal/mana.
This makes some pretty big assumptions that it scales just the same way as Conflagrate, of course.
Unless Swiftmend is a lot more effective than that, I don't see a compelling case for getting it. It would require you to time your regrowths and rejuvenations very carefully, and even if you resorted to using rank 1 rejuvenation and regrowth to get the Swiftmend to proc, it still wouldn't be mana-efficient.
Quote:Conflagrate
165 Mana
36 yd range
Instant Cast
10 sec cooldown
Ignites a target that is already afflicted by Immolate, dealing 249 to 316 Fire damage and consuming the Immolate spell.
Rank 8 Immolate costs 380 mana and does 279 fire damage directly, then 510 fire damage over 15 seconds.
So, for comparison, let's imagine that we're casting Swiftmend on someone who's already affected by Regrowth.
Regrowth rank 9 takes 880 mana, heals for 1003-1119, then 1064 over 21 seconds. I speculate that Swiftmend would then take 440 mana, and would convert whatever remained of the Regrowth effect into a 600 point instant heal. Probably the healing done would be affected by instacast spell rules, i.e. only what, 33% of +heal is applied, so for someone with 400-ish healing, you'd get 732 healing. Regrowth itself should get about 66% of the +heal, or something, so +264. Total, 3121 heal for 1320 mana, or 2.36 heal/mana.
By comparison, rank 11 healing touch: 800 mana for 2267-2677 healing, plus another 400 from +healing gear, so 3.59 heal/mana.
This makes some pretty big assumptions that it scales just the same way as Conflagrate, of course.
Unless Swiftmend is a lot more effective than that, I don't see a compelling case for getting it. It would require you to time your regrowths and rejuvenations very carefully, and even if you resorted to using rank 1 rejuvenation and regrowth to get the Swiftmend to proc, it still wouldn't be mana-efficient.