Comments on: Community Spotlight

By: Kiyona

Kiyona — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:07:04 +0000

Regarding trouble being on top of the healingmeters…

I don’t know if there is much difference in a 25-man raid, but in our 10-man raid where I regularly heal together with a priest and a paladin, I dominate the meters, usually I heal 100% more than both the paladin and the priest do each, sometimes only 50% more, but I’m always #1.

Not that I really care about the meters, I just try to be as efficient as possible with my healing and keep everyone alive. I have lifebloom and mostly rejuv running on both tanks when they are tanking and raidheal with a mix of LB, Rejuv, Regrowth and Wild Growth depending on the situation, topping the tanks off with Regrowth when they get low.

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:35:43 +0000

@Arnen: I think self-restraint and the ability to resist being the hero (or trying to “beat” someone else to a target) is definitely a skill most healers (myself included) could stand to work on.

By: Yonisos

Yonisos — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:46:02 +0000

There is no need to train your guildmate to not overwrite your hot. You have to choose the correct spell for the correct situation. Having a good knowlege of each event and boss capacity.
Boss with continuous damage on all raid like sapphiron or felmyst, playing with rejuvenation is a key, boss with aoe damage use wildgrowth, boss with targeted damage use regrowth ,nourish or rejuv+swiftmend.

This is how i heal in a 25 raid according to wws:
Patchwerk:regrowth 39%, lifebloom 37%,rejuvenation 11%,swiftmend 9%…
globulus:wildgroth 54%,regrowht 21%,liblebloom 9%, rejuvenation 7% swiftmend 7%etc…
saphhiron:rejuvenation 60%,wildgroth 10%, nourish 9%, regrowth 7%,swiftmend 2%.
Each event need a different healing

I think also that to be effective, you must no let a GCD be not use.
A good druid is someone with a good adaptation and anticipation. I don’t put my hots one someone who already received damage but on someone who will receive some .
Trough BC and now in WOTLK, i was always managed to be a top healer and i was a member of Top guild pre wotlk (killed muru and KJ pre nerf).

Sorry for my very bad english

By: Arnen

Arnen — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:18:28 +0000

About the hots issue, it really depends on healers composition.
In bc when I was assigned to raid healing I was like ‘WTF?!?!’, such a waste of my hots, when you have excellent raid healers in the group.
I found that healers are way to obsessed with meters and trying to top the chart. That can be a problem when you can’t stop casting and watching what’s going on in a fight, who’s taking damage, etc.
You’re simply casting non-stop trying to keep everyone alive.
I did a little experiment the other night during a 25-man naxx: I was assigned as a raid healer, which basically means to heals some splash damage during pulls, and hot the tanks on a boss fight, and sit back and watch until someone was being hit by a brick or something.
I used wild growth and regrowth as main heals, and rejuv and lifebloom when I knew the damage wasn’t serious enough that it needed to be healed right away.
After the raid I was analyzing the meters (wwsstats) and I topped the charts, even though my heals where pretty much overwritten all the time, by the other healers who didn’t stick to their assignments.
Healing is not an easy job, you always want to keep everyone alive and that is a big problem.
It’s really difficult to watch how someone’s life is getting low and not try to heal him.
You lose sight of your assignment trying to heal someone who is being watch by other healer and things can go bad.

By: ST

ST — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:07:29 +0000

Ermengol & Phae, thank you very much for making the topic clear to me;) In fact this “problem” is handled in my group by using an indicator for incoming heals within the addon grid.

In my experience you can never expect a HoT to heal all it´s potential healing. There will definitely be reached the end of the life-bar before the HoT is over in most cases. The good side is: There will be new damage within seconds which will be handled with our still ticking HoTs;)

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:40:57 +0000

@Wynn: Yes, each IV is a single use, and they don’t stack.

@Ermengol: Some really great advice, thank you!

@ST: HoTs do not overwrite each other. When people refer to “overwriting HoTs”, the term is a little misleading. What they’re actually talking about is someone casting a direct heal on a target who already has one or more heals over time on them. The HoT then ticks away ineffectually. It used to be, however, that Druid HoTs did overwrite one another with the higher +Healing value winning. They had to abandon this paradigm when they decided to focus us more toward HoT healing and less toward Healing Touch.

@Graylo: I’ll have to try that … ^^

@TKC: You aren’t the only chronic overhealer. All Druids are. It’s just the nature of the … Trees. The only type of overhealing you should worry about is overhealing resulting from your direct heals (Regrowth, Nourish, Healing Touch).

@Wewhoeat: That’s an interesting idea, but I’d rather encourage people not to overwrite HoTs to begin with rather than figure out who to complain to when it happens. At the same time, I don’t want to seem “greedy” and claim all the targets for myself.

@Aju: I happily don’t have enough experience in that area to say. I didn’t think on it TOO hard, but I don’t personally notice any similarity!

By: Aju

Aju — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:12:37 +0000

Is it me or does the first emblem look like the point of view of a OB/GYN?

Just Sayin….

By: wewhoeat

wewhoeat — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:29:08 +0000

There has to be a way to analyze the combat log to see when someone tops health off with a direct heal on a target that still has hot ticks left. Does WWS do this?

By: tkc

tkc — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:14:02 +0000

I’m a chronic overhealer, especially with the rolling LB stack. Any hints for how to avoid this? My usual rotaton is LB, rejuve, LB, LB and then keep the LB stack up and re-cast rejuve when it expires. Throw in a regrowth when/if needed. I use swiftmend or NS/HT as panic buttons.

I didn’t know that HoTs could overwrite each other.

/hintfortopic

By: Ermengol

Ermengol — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:10:16 +0000

ST, spells don’t actually “overwrite” each other (except if you re-cast one of your own HoTs on the same target), but if a player takes some damage, you cast let’s say Rejuvenation on him and then MacPriest Healall decides to heal him to full health with a Flash Heal before it even ticks once, rejuvenation goes wasted.

This HoT-versus-direct heal fight happens quite often, and ends up with lots of mana down the drain, so healers have to learn to pay attention to HoTs and “respect them” whenever healing speed is not critical (of course if the target’s gonna die if you don’t heal fast, to hell with the HoT, do it fast! ).