05-19-2006, 12:28 AM
Tuftears,May 18 2006, 03:09 PM Wrote:The thing here is, it's not a safe assumption there's always a druid HOT on the tank - a lot of druid healers have gone to healing touch only because of mana efficiency and wanting to avoid overheal. To calculate this from an efficiency point of view, you have to assume that you're doing both the HOT and the Swiftmend, not freeloading off of someone else's HOT.[right][snapback]110274[/snapback][/right]
If there isn't, something is seriously wrong in your raid. A tank should always have every available HoT going on him or her. It's a guarantee that no matter what happens to interrupt the healing, the main tank will get some heals. Plus, if the tank takes a big hit, those extra HoT's going off at the same time as other people healing will make it much faster to bring the tank back up to a less dangerous level of life.
What will be really interesting is if Swiftmend does not have something like Weakened Soul, then it could end up being more powerful in raids than PW:Shield. Right now, a tank can only get one PW:Shield per 15 seconds no matter how many priests are in his or her raid. But, it sounds like Swiftmend could be used more often than that as long as the HoT's are renewed consistently, as they should.