Originally Posted by Snowy
I prefer not allowing any ticks on gas nova, just the initial cast damage. It's not only more damage, but it's a mana drain. Gas Nova and Encapsulate are the 2 dangerous things in the fight, the loss of DPS by standing there for a few seconds isn't going to make or break it.
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If you allow a tick, you *really* screwed up. No matter what kind of a priest you are.
I'm holy (CoH) and I dispelled this week on one of our three groups. There were basically two situations:
1) Corrosion went off, I used 2 GCDs, and stood there waiting for the Gas Nova, removed it ~ 0.9 seconds after it landed (the Nova hitting inevitably gives me a pushback, so can't get any better than that).
2) Corrosion went off, I used 2-3 GCDs, and ended up being on GCD when the Gas Nova began casting. I began casting the spell the instant the GCD ended, and cleansed the Nova ~ 1.3-1.5 seconds after it landed.
Either way, no secondary tick.
If a priest manages to allow a 2nd tick in any situation but a "running back from encapsulate and got lost and was low and was spamming heals and <bad stuff here>", they screwed up. Fix positioning, fix assignments, whatever. Just assume it's something that doesn't have to happen.
I mean, basically, here's a timelime:
0:00:00 -- Gas Nova begins casting
0:01:30 -- Gas Nova lands on the raid
0:03:30 -- Gas Nova ticks for the first time
You literally would have to ignore the start of the Gas Nova cast, and keep on chugging with something big (like a GHeal started *just* before the Gas Nova begins casting) in order to still be on the GCD / not completed your MD cast when the tick goes off.
For shadow priests, it's easy: use Mind Flay, and /castcancel+MD. For IDS priests, it's easy: use GHeal, and /castcancel+MD. For COH priests it's *slightly* more complicated, since we're using instant cast spells that put us on the GCD, so you can easily cast a CoH *as* the Nova begins casting, with no way to interrupt it. In this situation, you STILL get the dispel off before the Nova ticks.