Healing in Raids

[Treesh]

extreme boss fights and when the raid contains AoEing mages and warlocks. I now know to keep a very close watch on those fragile fiends.
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And in those cases where the damage is flying in fast and heavy, I am so glad for people cross-healing. There was one raid I was on where one mage got hate from just about everything and no one could pull it off the mage and shield was down. It took all three healers healing to keep that mage alive. I do wish holy nova would heal the raid groups and not just my party. Then I wouldn't have had to ask to put two mages, a warlock and a hard shell in my group just so my AoE heals would be much more effective. ;) Holy nova really is great in those AoE situations. Pre-shield your AoErs, when the shield is burned through, fire off the holy nova. With enough AoErs around, that holy nova is enough after the shields have been burned through to help kill whatever is eating the squishies and heal them up at the same time. And it's instant so it gives more time to get some real heals on them if the critters aren't dead yet.

Side note: To make the holy tree more attractive for healers, make holy nova raid group heals instead of just party heals (same radius) or make holy fire have a chance to heal your group within a certain radius when it crits. I could be a bit biased on that though and I have no idea how unbalancing either would be. ;) :D