Terenas Friday 11/25

[Concillian]

Mogo has figured out how to keep mages alive through AoEs though, as long as the mage knows how to kite in a confined area. ;)  Main healing as a shaman is so much more difficult than main healing as a priest.  I'm going to have to figure out more tricks with Mogo so it's not as stressful for me and doesn't burn the tank's health pots and keeps the mages alive better without having to kite well. :)  She did get some nice gear upgrades though running through DM East so it should be easier to main heal again.
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You mentioned tricks with a shaman and then kite, and my brain said earthbind. Mage can play ring-around-the-rosie with the earthbind totem to help alleviate the need for healing in AoE. Something I never thought of before, but a mage could at least reduce the damage taken by runiing around the earthbind. This could potentially more than make up for lack of shield and HoT.

Or drop an earthbind and back up a few yards before you start healing for MT healing to buy some extra time if some start heading to you. It's no fade, but it would be easier for someone else to get your aggro.

With Kosch there too you could have quite a large kiting area, people could effectively kite out lots of damage taken simply by barely pulling aggro, and kiting through the totem farm. This would also reduce DPS though, so it would take some experimentation to see how effective it was.

I think most of the time though the issue is that you can really only effectively heal one person, and if we end up with anyone else in trouble, decisions have to be made simply due to the limitations of a shaman healer.

We could also try to coordinate using Shield Wall, which can buy you some time for healing others. I basically never use shield wall, and it's available every 30 minutes.

For example, if you see others needing healed, and call for a shield wall while you're popping a final heal on the tank before paying attention to someone else, then you have 10 seconds where the tank is taking very little damage, so you have an easier time paying attention to others.