04-14-2006, 07:36 PM
Seeing as how the Legendary Staff thread is garnering so much attention, it got me to thinking:
1) There's no legendary item in the game for healers, and
2) If there were, what would it be like?
Thanks to Blizzard's itemization of having items with +heal alongside items with +dam/+heal, players such as myself who prefer the healing game are forced to "gimp" their soloability if they want to go for Ultimate Healing Power. Items that would give +30 dam/heal will have an equivalent that gives +55 healing, for example. Yes, I could get the +30 dam/heal item, but for the sake of pure healing, it's not as good. +25 points of healing isn't much, but it starts to add up into hundreds of extra +heal power by going only for the +heal items and leaving the +dam/+heal items to the DPS'ers.
As MongoJerry's noted, the game shifts in favor of offense vs. defense after level 60 and the epic itemization. The Legendary items are all offense-based in nature because that's what players get googly-eyed over. However, I'm that rare breed of player that's not excited by Thunderfury. I yawn at the Hammer of Sulf. Where's my healing Legendary? You know, that one item that would have the potential to alter the way an entire raid approaches the healing game? The item that, if you faced me on the battlefield, would make you think "oh, #$%&" like a Thunderfury can? Is such a thing even possible?
What if you had a Legendary healer item, like:
The Lounging Lurker, Uber Healing Staff of WTFPWNAGE
Two Hand Staff
90-147 Damage
Speed: 3.0
(who cares damage per second, n00b)
+25 Stamina
+45 Intellect
+35 Spirit
Durability 125 / 125
Requires Level 60
Equip: Restores 18 mana every 5 seconds.
Equip: Increases healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 275.
Equip: All party members within 30 yards receive 5% of their damage taken back as healing over the next 15 seconds.
Use: Upon next spell cast, the effect of the spell is placed on every member of a party/raid within 40 yards, without generating threat. Cooldown: 20 minutes.
So, picture a Greater Heal hitting the entire raid at once for those major "oh crap" situations...or maybe a Power Word: Shield. cooldown 20 minutes so that it can't be used more than once per raid encounter, although I could see that going up to 60 minutes easily to prevent cheese. As if it weren't cheese enough.
Anyway, it's all just theory and a Priest can dream, right? Any ideas you would have for the ultimate healer item?
-Bolty
1) There's no legendary item in the game for healers, and
2) If there were, what would it be like?
Thanks to Blizzard's itemization of having items with +heal alongside items with +dam/+heal, players such as myself who prefer the healing game are forced to "gimp" their soloability if they want to go for Ultimate Healing Power. Items that would give +30 dam/heal will have an equivalent that gives +55 healing, for example. Yes, I could get the +30 dam/heal item, but for the sake of pure healing, it's not as good. +25 points of healing isn't much, but it starts to add up into hundreds of extra +heal power by going only for the +heal items and leaving the +dam/+heal items to the DPS'ers.
As MongoJerry's noted, the game shifts in favor of offense vs. defense after level 60 and the epic itemization. The Legendary items are all offense-based in nature because that's what players get googly-eyed over. However, I'm that rare breed of player that's not excited by Thunderfury. I yawn at the Hammer of Sulf. Where's my healing Legendary? You know, that one item that would have the potential to alter the way an entire raid approaches the healing game? The item that, if you faced me on the battlefield, would make you think "oh, #$%&" like a Thunderfury can? Is such a thing even possible?
What if you had a Legendary healer item, like:
The Lounging Lurker, Uber Healing Staff of WTFPWNAGE
Two Hand Staff
90-147 Damage
Speed: 3.0
(who cares damage per second, n00b)
+25 Stamina
+45 Intellect
+35 Spirit
Durability 125 / 125
Requires Level 60
Equip: Restores 18 mana every 5 seconds.
Equip: Increases healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 275.
Equip: All party members within 30 yards receive 5% of their damage taken back as healing over the next 15 seconds.
Use: Upon next spell cast, the effect of the spell is placed on every member of a party/raid within 40 yards, without generating threat. Cooldown: 20 minutes.
So, picture a Greater Heal hitting the entire raid at once for those major "oh crap" situations...or maybe a Power Word: Shield. cooldown 20 minutes so that it can't be used more than once per raid encounter, although I could see that going up to 60 minutes easily to prevent cheese. As if it weren't cheese enough.
Anyway, it's all just theory and a Priest can dream, right? Any ideas you would have for the ultimate healer item?
-Bolty
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