12-27-2005, 11:43 PM
oldmandennis,Dec 27 2005, 02:54 PM Wrote:5400 is quite a bit of mana. It's substantially more then I had at that point. Did you make a point of hunting down a bunch of + int items? I didn't really target gear until I capped.
Maybe I'm overestimating a solo priests ability, as for some goofy reason both of my highlevel characters are hybrids, so I haven't done many instances with just a solo priest. Closest I came was WC with my druid beartanking the whole way.
Who said that? I'm just saying I wouldn't do it strath level stuff in greens and blues solo healing unless I was really confident in my teammates. I'm not saying its impossible, it would just probably exceed my frustration level. E.g., during the strath run I'm using as an example, we explained the cannons to the hunter. We thought he understood, but then didn't do it right. A green/blue shaman wipes, only my purples and the purples on the MT saved the day. That was an important save, because we did wipe on Balthazzar when he MC'd the tank twice (I don't think many parties are going to survive that), but since my ankh was still up, we were able to finish the run (which was nice, since Bal dropped the Truefaith pattern and I made more then 100g :) )
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No, I didn't specifically hunt up intell gear. I didn't run the lower level instances over and over and over again just to get the intell gear either. Mogo grew up healing, grew up restoration spec. It wasn't until she hit 60 (or close to 60) where she ever had another healer in the group. Oh, wait. Once or twice before 60/high 50s I had a druid in the party. If there was mail/leather loot that would boost my intell and stamina, I'd roll on it or ask if I could roll on it if it was something BoP. If it was strength/stamina instead, I would roll on it or ask if I can roll on it for her melee outfit. I still don't go out and target specific gear with her really. There are still enough quests for me to get done for me to go into the end instances that there's a good chance I'll still end up with nice gear. But since she grew up healing, it was much easier to get the mana gear piece by piece. For a while she was all mail, then she was a little bit of leather thrown in, but she's been all mail again for quite a while.
A solo priest is a good healer for an entire group, yes. They have the best group heals in the game and shield really is a great tool. Growing up, the instances felt just as difficult to heal with Aleri as they do with Mogo, but I had the safety net of prayer of healing, holy nova (sometime in the 40s? Basically as soon as I could get it, I had it), and shield. Sometimes it was enough, sometimes it wasn't. ;) A shaman heals are quite dependent on just how idiotic the group is. If the group is completely out to lunch, yeah, there are definitely going to be more deaths. If the group has some clue, it'll be easier to avoid stupid deaths. If it's a really good group, you don't even get close to anyone dying. With priests, you have fade if you have to heal early and heal heavy so you can take care of yourself easier and the easier it is for the sole healer to stay alive, the less likely you'll have a wipe. And that's why PuG groups want priests instead of any of the other healers. Good priests have enough tricks to save idiots if they want to and not have to sacrifice an important character to do it. The other healers have to be a bit more selective and so the idiots die more frequently. If the idiot isn't in a crucial role for the group, let him die if he decides a fight isn't exciting enough and decides to purposefully bring in another group of 5 critters to fight. So there are plenty of idiots in WoW who then believe that any healer less than a priest sucks because they only die if it's not a priest healing them. So yeah, I got more defensive than I should have about shaman healing and being told I couldn't do my job in anything less than purples with some blues. ;) And in case my rambling point doesn't come through, I completely agree that a healer's life (regardless of class) is definitely made so much easier if you are in a good group.
Intolerant monkey.