04-02-2007, 10:17 PM
And how different is this from Twin Emps where a tank could take a single hit for 80% of their life? Queue and cancel shouldn't have changed that much and that is still one of the best mana conserve methods there is. How is it different from other Naxx fights were the same things could happen?
Sure if the healer gets aggro they are much more likely to die but I still can't see it being that much different from stuff that people already learned in raid healing or were already practicing in 5 mans. Yes, on harder hitting mobs in 5 mans I anticipated damage, I would queue and cancel if not needed. That meant I pretty much always had a heal 2 seconds from landing since most of the big heals took 2.5 to cast and you would cancel with about .5 seconds left and start casting again. A healer should pretty much never wait for damage. I thought that was pretty much accepted practice by now. That still means you'll end up with a heal that you don't cancel that was overheal from time to time but I don't see it as that different from the tanks perspective. It's much more dangerous for the healer to pull aggro (that's any healer as well, a paladin in full healer gear isn't going to have 11,280 health and while the hit won't hit that hard a 7520 hit (60% mit vs your 10% mit) on the pally could still very well be a one shot as well if they pull aggro or the 8773 it would hit the shaman for or the 10K the druid took in tree/caster form).
There are more auto-reactive heals (HoTs, earth shields, prayer of mending) than before but yeah they still don't matter.
I don't know I'm not convinced that healing has changed that much. Be proactive not reactive and stay tight on the mana. Tight on the mana is harder since as you mentioned you don't get to downrank as much, but my paladin had 7 different heals hot keyed before I'm sure he still will so that I can still hit closer to the target, even if I have less opportunities to do so.
Dunno, I'm getting much closer to that content, maybe it still is different from that, but it doesn't seem it's going to change much for the healer other than if you get aggro and the fact that there are more situations where that is more likely, that you are more likely to be dead now.
Sure if the healer gets aggro they are much more likely to die but I still can't see it being that much different from stuff that people already learned in raid healing or were already practicing in 5 mans. Yes, on harder hitting mobs in 5 mans I anticipated damage, I would queue and cancel if not needed. That meant I pretty much always had a heal 2 seconds from landing since most of the big heals took 2.5 to cast and you would cancel with about .5 seconds left and start casting again. A healer should pretty much never wait for damage. I thought that was pretty much accepted practice by now. That still means you'll end up with a heal that you don't cancel that was overheal from time to time but I don't see it as that different from the tanks perspective. It's much more dangerous for the healer to pull aggro (that's any healer as well, a paladin in full healer gear isn't going to have 11,280 health and while the hit won't hit that hard a 7520 hit (60% mit vs your 10% mit) on the pally could still very well be a one shot as well if they pull aggro or the 8773 it would hit the shaman for or the 10K the druid took in tree/caster form).
There are more auto-reactive heals (HoTs, earth shields, prayer of mending) than before but yeah they still don't matter.
I don't know I'm not convinced that healing has changed that much. Be proactive not reactive and stay tight on the mana. Tight on the mana is harder since as you mentioned you don't get to downrank as much, but my paladin had 7 different heals hot keyed before I'm sure he still will so that I can still hit closer to the target, even if I have less opportunities to do so.
Dunno, I'm getting much closer to that content, maybe it still is different from that, but it doesn't seem it's going to change much for the healer other than if you get aggro and the fact that there are more situations where that is more likely, that you are more likely to be dead now.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.