10-16-2005, 08:32 PM
ima_nerd,Oct 16 2005, 09:06 AM Wrote:Basically, I've heard two strategies for healing tanks. One is to just spam FHeals all over the place, efficiency be damned, that's what rotations are for.
As I mention in my guide, unless you have Improved Healing, the difference in mana efficiency between Flash Heal and Greater Heal is minimal due to the fact that Greater Heal has a tendency to overheal and due to the fact that the criticals on Greater Heal tend to be wasted. So if you don't have Improved Healing, then I wouldn't bother to use Greater Heal.
Quote:Another is to have one person hitting the tank with FHeals to keep him alive and protect against crits while another Priest casts GHeal to actually do the healing. The second options seems better to me because it seems that the GHeal Priest could last a very long time before he needed to regen mana. Of course, if he couldn't last a whole fight, it wouldn't matter because he'd still need a backup to rotate with.
Well, first, you're assuming only two healers. That's not a typical situation on a main tank in Molten Core, so I'm having difficulty picturing the situation. Perhaps an example would help me here. Second, if you want to have your healers split up like this, then you need to talk about how they have their mana conserve options in CTRaidAssist set. In The Core, we set our Flash Heal levels to -1300 and I personally have my Greater Heal option set to -2600 (for those cases where I'm conserving mana and use Inner Focus to cast a Greater Heal). If you set it up this way, then the Flash Healer will end up doing 90% of the healing and will have his or her mana drop like a stone. If you have them both set to -1300, then the Greater Heal healer will overheal all the time. If you have them both set to -2600, then you're letting your main tank's health drop a lot before he gets healed and therefore he or she runs the risk of having a couple of badly timed critical hits kill him or her.
If I'm low on mana, I will occationally switch to using Greater Heals if I'm in a crowd of healers healing the main tank. The idea is that I don't really want to heal, because I want to regenerate mana, but if the main tank's life drops down that far, then I do want my heal to go off, mana regeneration be damned. I suppose I could also accomplish this by changing my Flash Heal mana conserve option to -2600 on the fly, too, but I hate bringing up the CTRaidAssist options window that blocks most of the screen during a fight.