Originally Posted by galzohar

I see no difference between mp5 and mana portion of int. They both give you a certain pre-determined amount of mana over a given fight. The only difference between the 2 is that one varies based on fight length and the other does not. Plus int has small +healing and crit bonuses that while aren't much, aren't neglicible either.

As for critting HL5 you're using a slower cast time spell with lower HPS with much higher mana cost and lower HP/mana. The only difference in crit chance between HL5 and maxFoL is 6%, rest of your HL crit also applies to your FoL. Do the math and see that even if you count crit as HPS, HL5 flat out loses to maxFoL on EVERYTHING. These kinds of posts are exactly why a spreadsheet is needed. You crit stacking is actually pretty weak as well and hurts your mana efficiency more than it helps due to how much healing (and possibly mp5) you're losing for it, which just isn't worth it if you actually do the math.

I've yet to see a single person advocate crit stacking AND having the math to back it up. Probably because such math does not exist, although if I'm wrong I'd love to be proved wrong. However rank5 HL spamming will not do any good for your cause, since it's inferior to maxFoL in every single way.

If you're spamming low rank HLs as a way of healing you have obviously not read the post and if you did you definitely didn't do any math whatsoever. It's like that mage/lock stacking crit becuase "crits is teh good dps!" especially affliction warlocks that think they need the crit to up their ISB time and seem to "forget" all the spell dmg (and dps) they lose in the process. At the end, if you want to convince anyone you're right, please have something to back it up other than "I do it and it works" or "I don't live in the MC days" (with a T2-geared pally avatar if I may add).