Infraction for sulliwan: Shut up

Kaubel · 06/18/09, 1:41 PM

Post: Resto (PvE) Healing Discussion
User: sulliwan
Infraction: Shut up
Points: 2

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Shut up.

Original Post:

Originally Posted by Vazu

I guess I really don't understand. If someone gets Gravity Bomb on XT, a Priest shields that person. Why would I LB? I'll throw a Rejuv on them as they run back, but Lifebloom isn't necessary. It's not BAD, but it's not like the person will die if I don't choose Lifebloom to heal them with. I think that's probably the biggest flaw in any arguement people make about how to heal. People always look at theoretical numbers and maximum HPS. How can I take this spell which isn't very effective and make an arguement about why YOU think it's good. See what I mean? Math only works in theory. Practice presents all kinds of different problems which you simply can't plan for with HPS math.

I highly doubt your priests shield for 15k. Also, you're commiting the same fallacy of "it's not like people will die", by that argument sitting in a corner and doing nothing is an equally valid healing strategy since "it's not like people will die if I don't cast that rejuve, ad infinitum".
The one looking at theoretical HPS numbers in this case is you, I'm not making a case for maximizing your hps, I'm simply stating that the first responsibility for any healer should be to minimize the probability of anyone in the raid dying. When you have people that are going to predictably take damage which would kill them if unhealed, you prioritize them with all the tools you have, even if it means using less effective spells. You don't heal plasma blasts with just rejuve ticks since it's most effective, do you?

Originally Posted by Vazu

Regarding your other point on IC.

If a handful of people are soaking, are you only healing those soakers? Why wouldn't you just cast a HOT on every single GCD? Blanket hoting is only bad if you're running OOM. I can't remember how many soakers we have, but let's say there are 5 + 1 tank. Are you seriously going to just Rejuv 6 people, cast Wild Growth and then stand there? Why would you do that? Why not Rejuv the soakers, WG and then start throwing Rejuvs on other people? You use DoTimer don't you? Look at your bar for the first soaker. When that Rejuv runs out, re-apply it to all of them. It's not like nobody else in the raid is taking damage except for the tank and soakers. Everyone is taking damage pretty much. Why heal reactively? I'm a proactive healer. That's why I blanket cast hots. I think what you're implying is that I just randomly mash Rejuv on the entire raid, ignoring who might be most likely to take raid damage. Nothing could be further from the truth. I may blanket the raid with hots, but I'm doing it with a strategy.

Unlike you seem to think, there are other spells druids can use besides rejuve and wild growth. 5+1 is enough people to keep every gcd used on just those 6 people. Those 6 are in the most direct danger of dying and you should be doing everything in your capability to keep them alive. Raid is adequately covered by JoL+HL glyph+random chainheals/wg/coh.
And please don't patronize me, I've been playing a druid far longer than you have. Also, nowhere in my post did I even hint that you should heal reactively, in fact my point was quite the opposite.