Healing Rotation in BWL

Hookem · 11/15/05, 8:31 PM

I recently read a post by Gurgthock that mentioned a healing rotation that yall use on Flamegor, which struck me as a great idea for the fight. My guild heals willy-nilly in the fight, which still works, but we use a considerable amount of consumables to do it. I'm curious as to what system yall use for Flamegor, or for any encounter in BWL.

edit: Please excuse the use of the phrase 'willy-nilly', it was the only thing I could think of @3am.

♦ Praetorian · 11/15/05, 8:36 PM

Originally Posted by Hookem,November 15th, 2005 @ 8:31PM

I recently read a post by Gurgthock that mentioned a healing rotation that yall use on Flamegor, which struck me as a great idea for the fight. My guild heals willy-nilly in the fight, which still works, but we use a considerable amount of consumables to do it. I'm curious as to what system yall use for Flamegor, or for any encounter in BWL.

edit: Please excuse the use of the phrase 'willy-nilly', it was the only thing I could think of @3am.

Flamegor? No healing system -- the fight's over before mana becomes an issue.

For Firemaw, nothing too complicated. Break the raid's healers up into three groups of 4-5 each. Each group heals in a rotation.

So..
0:00 -- Pull; group 1 heals
1:00 -- group 2 starts healing
1:10 -- group 1 stops healing
2:00 -- group 3 starts healing
2:10 -- group 2 stops healing
3:00 -- group 1 starts healing
3:10 -- group 3 stops healing
etc.

Typically it takes twice as long to regen mana in a state of rest as it did to use it, so a rotation like this turns your raid into a perpetual motion machine of sorts.

We do something like this on almost any fight that involves large amounts of healing, with inevitable overhealing (have to keep the tank at 100% on Firemaw or spikes will kill him), to avoid mana problems as the fight progresses.

Cayman · 11/16/05, 2:06 AM

Also, I was wondering if you guys could share your super-secret healing rotation for Lord Kazzak. All our healers seem to run out of mana between 3:05 and 3:10 into the fight, and then we wipe.

Congobongo · 11/16/05, 2:09 AM

Originally Posted by Cayman,November 16th, 2005 @ 1:06AM

Also, I was wondering if you guys could share your super-secret healing rotation for Lord Kazzak. All our healers seem to run out of mana between 3:05 and 3:10 into the fight, and then we wipe.

We normally down Kazzak before any of us hit half mana.

Kaubel · 11/16/05, 7:48 AM

There is no rotation. Each healer keeps his or her group alive and any extra healers are on the main tank. Of course in our case, healers are typically on double duty since we'll go with 20 people if that's all we have available.

If you're running out of mana with a balanced group of 40, or taking more than 3 minutes to kill Kazzak, you need to tell your DPS to quit slacking.

Raylen · 11/16/05, 8:09 AM

Running out of mana on Kazzak, wtf?

♦ Praetorian · 11/16/05, 8:19 AM

You guys got trolled.

Also, Kazzak doesn't go supreme at 3:00 anymore.

Cayman · 11/16/05, 8:25 AM

...[/sarcasm]. Am I too late?

It was a roundabout answer to the OP's question: "No healing system -- the fight's over before mana becomes an issue."

I was trying to think of a boss that no-one ever could possibly use a healing rotation for, and I figured Kazzak would be a pretty obvious example, given how you have to burn him down fast, or after 3 minutes, he'll enter Supreme Mode and wipe the raid. If I ever ask you guys for your 'super-secret' anything, I'm probably being facetious. Thanks for the knowledgable replies though B)

Gonktarg posted while I was trolling...
He doesn't? Does it take longer, or does he no longer go supreme at all?

Raylen · 11/16/05, 8:33 AM

A troll doesn't explain his trollings. You fucking suck at this.

Thrillho · 11/16/05, 8:33 AM

Originally Posted by Cayman,November 16th, 2005 @ 7:25AM

Gonktarg posted while I was trolling...

oh you're good

Oof · 11/16/05, 8:36 AM

More like Gonkthock am I rite?

Cayman · 11/16/05, 8:39 AM

I figured I should say something, since people were actually taking time to explain why Kazzak was a fast fight; time that could probably be better spent making fun of various excerpts from guildchat.

a troll doesn't explain his trollings. You fucking suck at this.

So does that mean I'm not a troll after all? good.

oh you're good

Oh yeah, and apparently Praetorian is Gurgthock, not Gonktarg. My bad.