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Finaly a challenge to healing again?
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Post by
cohut
Healing Philosophy
Seems we've (finaly) going back to TBC challenge of healing:) that means we actually have to make decisions when we heal and not just blindly heal what is below 100%(finaly i can stop feeling like a pala)
what do you think of this?
Post by
ljudsnubbe
I like it very much.
The best fights for me is were I really have to push my mana-managment (like right when wotlk was released, you just dinged 80 and started doing naxx, or the tunnel-fight in Arcatraz (BC-5man) when that was new, or the waves of mobs in Mount hyjal etc) but you outgear the mana-aspect of being a healer so fast.
The most intresting thing about this is to see how dps-classes will manage to adapt to the new you-must-get-out-of-fire aspect.
Now its pretty easy to understand: If you stand still in the fire you will die in like 2 secs, still alot of people fail to move, and die. If I get it right, in cataclysm, raiddamage will be less of an issue. Raid-healing will of course have to exist but if the Fire/goo/bad-%^&*-on-the-floor will do less damage (as I see it) many idiots will start to "Lol, just heal through it ffs, omg noobhealer, I loos dps if I have to move, lolz it hardly do any damage!" leaving us oomed really fast.
I guess this will be a good indication of who the morons are, so I guess the change is welcome ;)
Post by
cohut
Well im hoping it will be like early BC, kara gruul maggy mby first in ssc lvl(before nerfs and overgearing obviously). When you actually have to prioritize, X needs healing more than Y. Z is a lost cause, forget about him. not "keep everybody at 100% 99% of the time" as we have now.
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Post by
cohut
That's exactly what im saying, its was simple in wotlk, not even simple. its braindead, will improve in cata.
So mate, you might wish to look at your post again, im not gonna say any offending words but you know what you are :) actually ill explain to you again, for the less bright of us :)
and dont think you know ANYTHING about tbc healing if you didnt heal in tbc before nerfs. nerfs in TBC made TBC /faceroll aswell. (incase you wanted to comment that)
*CATA will have healing which is
HARDER
, due to management of mana and actually having to make important choices.
Which we obviously are happy about
*WOTLK is /faceroll healing
*Chicken tastes good
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Post by
cohut
Ignay, I heard so, but played mage in Vanilla so didnt get the opportunity to heal, and as i said somewhere up here, TBC was faceroll after nerfs (starting with SSC and attunement removements - Guild was disbanded and i quit hardcore raiding for quite a while after that tbh)
anyhow, im really looking forward to this, hope they can make it challenging again :)
Post by
Meggie
Codeword Triage.. I recall this quest. One was required to complete this to be able to level first aid past skill 225. There was a lot of QQ. The quest was about decision making: 20 bandages, 15 patients to resque, letting tops 5 to die.
Sadly, healing has become what we wanted it to be: AoE lolspam bandage.
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Post by
OscarDivine
Triage is great. In fact, I agree that Triage is the thing that is missing from our raids as they're currently designed. However, I also think that Triage can be an enormous waste of time right now because our heals scale far to well compared to our HP pools.
By this, I mean, if we had to triage right now, we'd have one player that would require significant healing attention, and outside of the
Incinerate Flesh
debuff from the Jaraxxus fight, more than one heal is wasted on a target because they'll be completely topped off. In fact, this really is one of the only fights right now where triage is REQUIRED, and I really do like this idea.
In the coming expansion, they've now stated clearly that it WILL require multiple heals to top off a target and keeping everyone at 100% with a Wild Growth + a Circle of Healing/PoH just won't do anymore. This is what makes Triage-scenarios possible. And I love the idea.
A parallel to this, would be playing a DPSer and being forced to change targets on a fight like Emalon, or Dreamwalker in order to save the raid from destruction. So in this way, I actually think that DPSers (or at least good/smart DPSers) have a much better sense of triage than most healers do, simply because they get lots of practice at it. It's something that needs to change.
Post by
delonix
I healed as Disc TBC (when it definitely wasn't as popular as it is now) and I'll admit, it was stressful for me.
There have been wipes where a tank will check his logs, see it was X seconds between heals, and yell at the healers.
Now that could have just been a demanding raid leader... but I always preferred quick-reaction, being prepared for incoming damage and constantly doing something, over the cast-jump/interrupt-cast-jump/interrupt-cast-cast-cast technique I used to do a lot in TBC.
Also, I wonder how Disc will handle these changes, and actually utilize its new bubbles in Cata.
Shields are expensive. I really hope they'll still be used often. Back in TBC I used GH/FH even as Disc.
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