Pantalaimon,Aug 9 2005, 08:53 AM Wrote:I saw a post a while back, I think it was here, about a priest that was going to try and use greater heal for most of their healing. How did that work out, I wonder?
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That was me
I'm still with my Shadow spec as I still mainly solo with that character. I do use Greater Heal and try to avoid using the other heals as I play with pretty raw pickup players as a rule. If someone who isn't the tank is low I wait until they're down to about 20% or let them die, with the tank I usually go at 40%, maybe lower if I don't think they have aggro controlled
Very occasionally a tank dies because I gambled and started healing too late, but it's much more common that I pull mobs off the tank when I start healing and get in trouble
I'm firmly convinced that "playing ping-pong" is the best method unless you're confident of your tank and remains a perfectly valid method even when you know the tank is superb
I generally don't throw renews and flash heals around at the non-tanks until I can see that aggro is under control. To my surprise, some players are very comfortable with this and will cheerfully over-nuke and die over and over again, thinking nothing of playing the second half of an instance in an all-red suit