02-06-2006, 05:23 PM
I find it easier to heal, in most situations, in Ony and MC (my paladin has not been in BWL though my druid and warrior have) with my paladin. This was another reason why I decided when 1.9 came out to make sure my paladin could heal as well as possible and made the druid feral.
Since neither one of them really needs to do much healing at all until we face a boss in MC the paladin is easier to heal with and make it mean something by stopping my paltry DPS and throwing out a holy light or a flash of light (I've got about +200 healing in my standard MC gear I can get to +318 so my flash of light is generally hitthing for about 600 healing and can get up around 700 before crits which since I do wear some spell crit gear as well is about 15% of the time. My druid is pretty much in cat form for everything but bosses giving rogues, DPS warriors and hunters 3% more crit chance and doing decent damage. But even before that I was pretty much resigned to trying to heal the person who was listed as #3 or #4 or the emergency monitor if I didn't want heals canceled all the time or I didn't want to just burn regrowth all the time (which I've started to do on trash mobs when I heal with her). Now if there are only 2 or 3 priests I can actually provide a lot of uncancelled healing as 2 of them will stay pretty much tied up with the tanks. I can cross heal pretty well or I can even get heals in on the MT.
On Ony since I've figure out her timing on attacks I can start my heal before she attacks and generally get it to land within about .5 seconds of when the attack hits (generally just bothering with her flame breath here) so if she hits with it I'll generally land the heal before other healers, if she doesn't it'll get canceled since the tank is fine. Also with the priests split up it's a bit more likely that I'll be able to heal someone else on my side before a priest flashes them.
But I've still taken to just going cat form and beating on her in phase one and using half my mana pool on wrath/moonfire in phase 2. Depending on the mana levels in phase 3 I will either DPS or help healing.
My paladin can and often does constantly heal in Onyxia, since I will try to find out what paladins are built for higher DPS and have them do more DPS since I'm not really built for heavy DPS. 31 holy/20 prot is built for healing and can off tank since I do have improved righteous fury. I'm actually pretty good at just keeping a mob occupied while self healing and if people give me a little lead time to get the right seals judged on on myself I can hold aggro decently too.
But I do find it much easier to heal with a paladin in the end game raids where my heals mean something than I do with my druid.
Now that being said come a boss fight I generally prefer to have my druid, at least for Sulf, Golemag and domo. But some of that is because my druid is still better geared for healing because she hit 60 before my paladin did.
But my druid is still a much better hybrid than my pally. Much more versatile and can do anything my paladin can do better in most cases. Trash mob raid healing being one of the few exceptions. They are pretty much equal in heal power on 5 mans right now if they are primary healer. The druid is better at DPS and tanking though.
Since neither one of them really needs to do much healing at all until we face a boss in MC the paladin is easier to heal with and make it mean something by stopping my paltry DPS and throwing out a holy light or a flash of light (I've got about +200 healing in my standard MC gear I can get to +318 so my flash of light is generally hitthing for about 600 healing and can get up around 700 before crits which since I do wear some spell crit gear as well is about 15% of the time. My druid is pretty much in cat form for everything but bosses giving rogues, DPS warriors and hunters 3% more crit chance and doing decent damage. But even before that I was pretty much resigned to trying to heal the person who was listed as #3 or #4 or the emergency monitor if I didn't want heals canceled all the time or I didn't want to just burn regrowth all the time (which I've started to do on trash mobs when I heal with her). Now if there are only 2 or 3 priests I can actually provide a lot of uncancelled healing as 2 of them will stay pretty much tied up with the tanks. I can cross heal pretty well or I can even get heals in on the MT.
On Ony since I've figure out her timing on attacks I can start my heal before she attacks and generally get it to land within about .5 seconds of when the attack hits (generally just bothering with her flame breath here) so if she hits with it I'll generally land the heal before other healers, if she doesn't it'll get canceled since the tank is fine. Also with the priests split up it's a bit more likely that I'll be able to heal someone else on my side before a priest flashes them.
But I've still taken to just going cat form and beating on her in phase one and using half my mana pool on wrath/moonfire in phase 2. Depending on the mana levels in phase 3 I will either DPS or help healing.
My paladin can and often does constantly heal in Onyxia, since I will try to find out what paladins are built for higher DPS and have them do more DPS since I'm not really built for heavy DPS. 31 holy/20 prot is built for healing and can off tank since I do have improved righteous fury. I'm actually pretty good at just keeping a mob occupied while self healing and if people give me a little lead time to get the right seals judged on on myself I can hold aggro decently too.
But I do find it much easier to heal with a paladin in the end game raids where my heals mean something than I do with my druid.
Now that being said come a boss fight I generally prefer to have my druid, at least for Sulf, Golemag and domo. But some of that is because my druid is still better geared for healing because she hit 60 before my paladin did.
But my druid is still a much better hybrid than my pally. Much more versatile and can do anything my paladin can do better in most cases. Trash mob raid healing being one of the few exceptions. They are pretty much equal in heal power on 5 mans right now if they are primary healer. The druid is better at DPS and tanking though.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.