Healing in Raids

[Kevin]

Well, GG, if you know the answers, why did you ask the question? 
Well, I recommend CTRA for any 40 man raid.  It has the "overheal" protection built in, which will be valuable in phase 2 (cross healing victems of a fireball) and phase 3 (scramble to heal tank after a fear).
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One. You were correct, that was one of the real problems with cross healing, but it wasn't the only one like you stated. I didn't say I had the answers, but your blanket statement annoyed me and it felt like you were going in a direction of "the end goal is all that matters no matter how we get there" My apologies if that was not the case. There are lots of ways to get to goals and lots of ways people have fun with this game and lots of those can work together. Yes, I want to be efficient, yes, I dont want to wipe, but if my healing is messing up someones fun or theirs mine then that is not a good thing. If you don't need me there and aren't going to let me do what my class can do, why did you invite me? We've already had 3 other healers come back and say that they have had problems with cross healing annoying them. I'm looking for solutions to that.

I asked the general question to get feed back from people who have done raid healing a lot as to what they think the good general startegies are for it. I'm not attacking you, I appreciate your input and I'm just bringing up counterpoints to it to either clarify what you said or simply because I disagree with it at this time. Doesn't mean I will disagree with it later. Again my apologies if I came off differently.

Two. As for CTRA I have it, the over heal protection is off because I would like to believe that people can work together and that you shouldn't need it. I am, however, debating turning it on if I'm healing in there tonight and not playing my warrior. If that is the only way the healers feel we can avoid the issues, and they need to be avoided, I will go along with that. I will also come back here and post to see if we can get away from dependence on a mod. You might not be able to. I also know some of how we have been healing it and I expect to have more disucssion before hand so all the healers know what to do and trust the other healers to do their jobs so that you generally won't need the over heal protection. I like to play the game at the cost of some efficiency not have a mod play it for me. I understand if this means certian players don't want me along and as I said if the others involved feel we need it, I'll do it.