Infraction for Xanil: Useless Post

◊ Kaubel · 08/13/08, 10:47 PM

Post: [Druid] Restoration WotLK Talent Preview / Discussion
User: Xanil
Infraction: Useless Post
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Administrative Note:

Message to User:

I CAN POSTCOUNT HURRR

Original Post:

Ok. I came up with a new problem. Basically with this I mean that Beacon of light and Flourish dont really go into any of the existing coefficiency categories. Why so? Mainly because they are both HoT's and Area of effect heals (group heals). In wowwiki there is a list of the coefficiencies and there isnt anything into which these two new AoEHoT's drop into. Priests CoH and shamans Chain heal drops into AoE heal slot cause they are basically direct group heals. But the problem is that the new group heals that we get in expansion have a HoT element in them as well.

In Cathela's paladin thread Cathela speculates that for the Beacon of light "The spellpower coefficient is 94% spread over the entire duration of the beacon, roughly equivalent to a +healing coefficient of 50%." So the number according to this article is 94%.

However, if you take the Are of effect and HoT coefficiencies given we dont get anywhere near the 94%. To explain.
Area of effect coefficiency is calculated as follows:

(Cast Time of Spell / 3.5) / 2 *1,89= Benefit

Over time (HoT) coefficiency is calculated as follows:

(Duration of Spell / 15) *1,89 = Total

The 1.89 in the formula is the speculated coefficiency raise which we get in Wotlk.

Now if you take Beacon of light into calculations and fit into both AoE and HoT coefficiencies you have the following results:
AoE (1.5 / 3.5 ) / 2 *1.89 = 0.41
HoT (15 / 15) * 1.89 = 1.89
From here you can see that the suggested 94% coefficiency for Beacon of light doesnt fit into neither coefficiency category.

Therefore I suggest that there is a new category of healing coefficiencys and that the 94% given to us in the paladin forums can work as the ground from which we can theorycraft coefficiencies for all other AoEHoT's. It is left here open what the formula would look like (ill try to work something out).