Originally Posted by Nekokun
My basic healing repetoire consists of:
FoL rank 7
FoL rank 6
HL rank 9
HL rank 10
Now I tried spamming FoL rank 7 like mad, but the tank snapped like a twig, so then I tried spamming HL, it worked better. Alot. But I managed to get OOM in under 30 seconds.
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Throw FoL 6 out of your bars/keybinds. I have never seen the situation (not considering complete OOM) where FoL 6 is worth using. Add HL11 to your spell rotations. Sometimes even HL10 isn't enough when tank takes a spike.
As for stream healing - it depends on encounter. For you (assuming it's heroic, t4 and early T5) it should be like this:
1. chaincast FoL
2. if no spikes happen cast HL 4 or 9-10 (depends on how much mana you have) each 10-12 sec to keep lights grace up
3. if tank gets spike - cast HL10-11 till he is topped and then back to steps 1-2.
You can not move completely out of reactive healing, since it either mean (a) tanks gets no spikes and you are lucky or (b) your streamhealing covers spikes fine and in this case overhealing will be insane as well as keeping streamhealing on this lvl will mean you overgear encounter by several tiers.
Originally Posted by Nekokun
And stream healing, how do you figure out what rank of spell to use? (I'm sick of reactive healing)
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Bear in mind, that CHOOSING what big spell to use while streamhealing usually IS reactive. Like I wrote before, you usually use 'low mana spell' (FoL7, HL4-7) to streamheal and cast higher ranks when tank got a spike or is going to take it (timed boss abilities). Exact balance depends on fight, but usually after knowing the encounter you know what spell you should choose as 'low mana spell' to both provide good enough streamhealing and have enough mana to cover spikes with HL10-11. Till mid/late T6 you should use FoL as 'stream' spell (with rare HL4-7 to keep grace up).
Remember, that we are not DPS casters who could just macro cast sequence and press one button and be fine. In all realistic situations we should be able to react on tank HP loss. Thats why there is not a single fight where you could say : OK I will cast this and only this spell rank, smash the button and it will work out (unless you could spam HL11 whole fight
).