Okay, I see what you're saying here. But given that MD will sometimes get pushed back by the nature damage aura, it seems as though there really is no way to guarantee that the first burn tick won't land occasionally. Regen seems to be saying that the "second tick" is 100% avoidable through proper MD timing, and I don't really see how that's the case, if in fact he means the first burn tick.
We got our first kill last night without bothering with any of this, so this is to some degree a moot point for us. But I wouldn't mind anything we can do to improve stability.
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Originally Posted by KamPa
I thought Mass Dispel is Discipline spell, meaning you can't be pushback immune while casting it. It's not really worth it anyway, if single tick proves fatal, there's something wrong with raid healing, not just dispeling.
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EDIT: For some reason I thought ES was 70% non-pushback, but you're right, it's only 30%. My mistake, and that does change the picture a bit.
Sure, the tick damage can be healed up, and 90% of the time it's not a problem. But occasionally you get an encaps followed by a nova in quick succession, or vice versa, and if you can make a little more margin for error in those kinds of situations you can sometimes avoid a wipe. If nothing else, you can save the mana required to heal up a tick, which is nice given how mana-strained the raid healers tend to be on this fight.