it's just a math exercise at that point. Sort of how curse of recklessness is shown to speed things along, even in spite of the drawback.


things to consider:

-Twice as much +heal and +received damage, so on the surface, you're coming out ahead.
-It's generally accepted that a raid boss has an infinite mana pool, whereas the healers have a finite pool. Thus, a better Healing per Mana is highly desirable for increasing endurance over a fight. It's not like you're allowing a boss to come up with a large chunk of additional damage in terms of the mana pool though, because there's essentially the potential for infinite damage.
-In general, the greatest danger to a tank is in burst damage, in which the additional 125 damage is a small percentage of the damage already heading his way.
-The +225 to healing is a bonus for any healer aiming at the target, potentially multiplying the the use you get out of the buff a great deal. If you're facing a single magic user, the debuff is being used a far smaller percentage.


I view this is very similar to Curse of Recklessness in that:

if (Buff * ((Healers_Targetting)*(heals_landed_per))) > (Debuff * ((Opponents_Targetting)*(damage_hits_per))):
then use amplify magic.

this account for situations where it's a bad idea, for example in the Rend event (lol, not an experienced raider :-( ), where you have 4-5 dragonkin lobbing lighting at the tank say 20 times, and you only have 3 healers who each heal the tank 3 times, you're coming up in the negative.

225 * 3 * 3 < 125 * 5 * 4

2025 bonus healing < 2500 damage taken. So this is any example of a bad trade.

edit: I had to walk away halfway through typing this. :-(


To clarify, I don't think burst damage is the problem, because there's a neglible difference between a 3000 shadowbolt when compared to a 3112 shadowbolt. The problem is when that's coming for a lot of different sources, where the debuff hits a great number of times.


edit 2: It's MIND GAMES

Heh. Okay, the similar points I'll grant you could be coincidence, but the CoR analogy is clear proof that you are living inside my skull.

Get out of my head, please, LurchDawg. I need it for, um, stuff.