Nightbane

[Treesh]

A quote from Gurgthock of the Elitist Jerks guild:

...doing this fight with 3 pure healers (me, holy priest, resto druid) and no shadow priest is still really, really painful, and people who say that some other fight in Kara is harder than Nightbane are insane. After a 25% wipe simply because all three of us were completely and utterly OOM with all timers burned, I popped a Resto flask, on top of Mageblood, Mana Oil, and Sporefish. I used 4 Super Manas, dropped Mana Tide twice, had Mana Spring down at all other times, and was on the verge of running OOM right as Nightbane died. I had like 23% overheal and the other two main healers had no more than 25%, so inefficiency wasn't the problem. (And if you look at my Armory profile, you'll see that it's not being undergeared, either.)

Tips welcome.

-Bolty

He mentions 25% overheal as a good thing? I'm sure your group Bolty has done better with the overheal numbers than that, but have you checked mana efficiency and HPS as well as the overheal numbers? I thought the whole point of having set raid groups was to get to know each others' behaviors and anticipate their reactions to situations, but with having a set raid group, you really should be able to get below 25% overheal, even with stacking HoTs doing strange things.

It really does suck to not have a paladin or a shaman or a shadow priest in your raid group Bolty and not seeing the fight yet, I can't help with specific tips, but having "only 23% overheal" on a shaman in a raid is nothing to be pleased about. You can expect a jump in overheal from five mans to raids, but that much?! In five mans, solo healing, Mogo has between 5% and 9% overheal and between 6 and 8 hitpoints healed per mana spent (I don't remember the hitpoints healed per second though) now. If I'm not solo healing but still main healing, the overheal can go up above 10%, but generally not higher than 15% depending on who is "backup" healing and how hyper active they are with healing. Mana efficiency generally drops to right around 6 though because I don't have to use chain heal as much. I will shamefully admit that there was a Botanica run where somehow I hit 30% overheal for the entire run and we didn't actually kill Warp Splinter on that run because my healing was just that far off the mark that run. I do wish I had remembered to look at my numbers after our last Karazhan run to see just how far up I jumped since Dunar and I don't usually get to heal with each other often and both of us admitted that our timing was off the entire run, but even in the old raids, 25% overheal was not an acceptable number (except for specific encounters and granted, this may be one of those encounters).

But, that's more about what he quoted and really doesn't help you and your team Bolty. I just had to vent about a shaman being happy about "only" 23% overheal.

Edit: And yes, Mogo's profile on the armory right now should have her in her healing gear, depending on how quickly they update the page after logout.;) If you see The Oathkeeper in her weapon slot, it hasn't updated yet.:)