01-26-2006, 01:16 AM
MongoJerry,Jan 25 2006, 03:22 PM Wrote:That's the thing. In large raids, it would be grossly mana inefficient, because there would be a lot of times when priests would be stuck channeling their heal when the tank's life is full. Allow me to illustrate. A tank takes a hit and five priests start a Greater Heal channel on the main tank. After a second, the tank's life goes back to full, but the mana has been spent, so the priests keep on healing for the next couple of seconds and doing basically no healing. You've just reduced Greater Heal's mana efficiency by a third.
1) It seems from the Blue posts that a lot of the end game content will be moving to smaller dungeons. If you are 5manning a boss, having the priest spend most of their time channeling very efficiently and at a high HPS on the tank, and the shammy tossing LHW in after a crit or on the rogue after a cleave sounds like a fantastic idea.
2) For raid encounters, just plan it better. If you can organise a EQ style rotation, you could orgainse something like - Priest 1&2 channel continuously on the tank. If he gets full, he will get hit in the next 2 sec, so its not like you are wasting all of your mana. Priest 3&4 keep their mana topped up, casting an occasional flash if you see a big crit. Switch when the first battery is at 20% mana.
Weather or not these notes are complete nonsense, changing one of the direct heal spells to something else sounds like it would make things more fun for the priests. Does it have to be the only option in every encounter? No, but if it's good enough to make you think about what your choice of healing spell is, it makes the game better. Or if you really don't like it, give it to me in place of HW, I'll take it :)