Infraction for Ribs: General Idiocy

• Aldriana · 10/03/08, 8:13 PM

Post: [Resto Shaman] WotLK Talents and Discussion
User: Ribs
Infraction: General Idiocy
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

http://elitistjerks.com/f31/a35-wotl...ic_guidelines/, #5 (Quote splitting).

Original Post:

Originally Posted by Praetorian

So you're admitting you are a terrible healer. Grats. Why do you even bother reading or posting in a thread about your spec when you are the stereotypical bad shaman who may as well have every key on his keyboard bound to Chain Heal as you faceroll your way through encounters?

Constructive? Well placed arguments? I am amazed to see such a response from someone in EJ. In what way is this usefull to the discussion? Please try and keep it on topic, no need in getting personal.

If you are healing right now, in 2.4, in Sunwell, BT, or elsewhere, and you are only casting Chain Heal all the time, then you're doing it wrong. And that's before all the various buffs and synergies for LHW and HW in 3.0. Sometimes only one person needs healing. Sometimes someone needs healing ASAP and not 2.5 seconds from now.

Please reread my posts. You'll see that I never said a shaman should always use CH, but that I prefer LHW over HW as HW is too slow and inefficient and big heals are the trademark of other healers, not Resto Shamans. As such I find Impr Healing Wave useless as 2.5 seconds is too close to 3.0 seconds. Like you say, someone needs healing ASAP, thus LHW. Why use HW here when it has the same casting time as CH??? You'd want FAST heals, 2.5 is not fast.

Countless situations arise where Chain Heal is simply the wrong spell to cast. If you can't see them, then that's your problem, but you also shouldn't be giving your opinion of talents and class changes when you are essentially a handicapped player.

Like I've said, I see them. But seeing as Tidal Waved HW's are still slower than a normal LHW, I see no reason to take the talent. Why spend 10 talent points on Heals which are still slower than other base heals which are faster. I agree sometimes you want to heal one person quickly, but using HW is not being quick. This is plain logic and numbers here. There is no handicap here, just numbers. Which from what I thought this entire forum was about: reasoning, logic, arguments.

Regarding the laughable comment of "why would I Riptide when I can LHW for more," here's a hint: You can't cast a LHW while moving. Sometimes people need to be healed while you are moving. If you can afford to channel a 1.5sec heal on them, then of course you should do it. But you can't always do that.

Erm I never said that. If you're going to quote me, at least do it with what I say. To quote myself in a page back on the topic of quick MT heals.

"This is true, but in all reality wouldn't NS > HW function much better here? Or even a Riptide for that matter? Fast heals are absolutely a handy way of healing through tricky times or simply bad pulls when learning bosses. But if it's purely quick heals on the MT you want, you'd still be better of with a Riptide or LHW with the EaS glyph in terms of speed and getting heals on the tank. In the end this is what you want, to give the MT healers some room to breath.

Next time please leave personal frustrations at home instead of venting them on me.

Also

Originally Posted by Vistol

lets agree to disagree and move on.

Aye agreed, cheers for the discussion folks. Last post for me, done with this discussion.