Healing in Raids

[KiloVictor]

My preference would be for the healers to handle their own groups and only heal a group without a healer and during boss encounters like the General.
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Cheer!

I used to to a lot of cross-healing in raids (MC/Ony) but I found that I was really doing it more to be useful than because it was needed. I wasn't usually saving a life, I was topping up from 60-80% to full. If I'd waited a few seconds, the healer in the group would have done it anyhow.

For any instance where you have adequate healing for the boss encounters, you're pretty much guaranteed to be overstocked on healers for the trash. So having finally figured that out (Duh!), now I typically sit back now and dispell or just chill out while other healers go LOM/OOM, then step into rotation. By the point that I'm up, the others are down and I can cross-heal my face off without wasting effort or mana.

The one thing that we've found is that we can move faster through the MC trash if the pullers just keep chain pulling and the healers fall into an informal rotation. Some of us will be drinking in the back ranks while others heal for a pull or two, and then we switch. Works well, and nobody's standing around with full mana and trying to stuff in extra healing on targets that frankly don't need it.

Kv