07-02-2005, 08:27 AM
fractaled,Jul 1 2005, 08:37 PM Wrote:from my perspective it looked like quark was talking about a mage that felt AoE was the solution to every problem...
was it? you obviously know him better than i, but with him saying "again", and that little "whistling" icon it sure seemed to me that he was saying SOMETHING about the mage...
I know Quark well indeed, and I can assure you that you read it incorrectly, though I can see how you gathered that impression. He's referring to the fact that Lurker and CA healers seem to have a hard time keeping me alive on AoE pulls, many of which they should have kept me alive on. They keep Psybie and Kapowee and Loch and Sabra alive, but if there's any chance anything can go wrong, it happens when they're healing me. They hit a wrong key or have the wrong target or whatever. Treesh is the only priest who's never lost me on an AoE pull for some silly reason or another. It's a bit of a guild joke which is lost on non-Stormragers.
That said, trying to dogpile on what you perceived to be someone he was bashing isn't the best way to determine who's at fault in any situation.
Quote:being a druid without nature's swiftness, and being the sole healer, i would give that AoE vs 6 dogs strat a 80% chance of resulting in the mage's death (say 30% with nature's swiftness)... you can bubble, and a druid can preload his HoTs, but you're still going to have about a 4 second gap between the 2nd and 3rd heals that is going to feel awfully long... (and i wouldn't fault the mage if it was the group's decision to AoE that encounter -- i'd fault the group [and not because of its composition])...
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I called for AoE on that encounter, and druids with Nature's Swiftness (I don't even consider AoE if they don't) can heal that encounter just fine. They just can't do it when I'm the mage in the middle, for whatever reason.