Poster: Honbag at 1/20/2006 11:23:19 PM PST
Subject: How many priests do you need for BWL? |
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One for Shielding the Main tank, one for shielding the offtanks. Oh and also for fort/spirit.
I love people posting these threads about priests being useless high end (Which they are right now), and then the people responding saying that a priest "played correctly" is the most efficient and best healer in the game.
Well, I have some breaking news for a lot of players that think this. It's this neat tool that I'm certain a lot of you probably picked up in elementary school but fail to put it to good use. It's called MATH. When you begin to use it you find out that a Druid with full epic +healing gear can obtain +950 healing with his/her items. With some further math use you find out that you can use Healing Touch Rank 3, which, with this gear, heals for about 800, has a 2 second cast time, and costs ...108... mana. Now with the new 3 piece stormrage mana regen bonus, guess who is the most efficient healer in the game? If you guessed Druid, you are correct.
Then you have shamans, which now, the more tranquil air totems, the better, so its generally a good idea to have 6-8 shamans per raid.
So, since you dont really need an excess of 17 healers in a raid, your best possible healing makup is 2 priests, 7-9 druids, and 6-8 shamans. Sorry priests, you are the weakest link. But fear not, Blizzard may start using math and finally fix your class, (or nerf druids).
| | | http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=6753929&p=#post6753929 | | | Poster: Eyonix at 1/23/2006 12:15:30 PM PST
Subject: Re: How many priests do you need for BWL? |
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Q u o t e:
2
One for Shielding the Main tank, one for shielding the offtanks. Oh and also for fort/spirit.
I love people posting these threads about priests being useless high end (Which they are right now), and then the people responding saying that a priest "played correctly" is the most efficient and best healer in the game.
Well, I have some breaking news for a lot of players that think this. It's this neat tool that I'm certain a lot of you probably picked up in elementary school but fail to put it to good use. It's called MATH. When you begin to use it you find out that a Druid with full epic +healing gear can obtain +950 healing with his/her items. With some further math use you find out that you can use Healing Touch Rank 3, which, with this gear, heals for about 800, has a 2 second cast time, and costs ...108... mana. Now with the new 3 piece stormrage mana regen bonus, guess who is the most efficient healer in the game? If you guessed Druid, you are correct.
Then you have shamans, which now, the more tranquil air totems, the better, so its generally a good idea to have 6-8 shamans per raid.
So, since you dont really need an excess of 17 healers in a raid, your best possible healing makup is 2 priests, 7-9 druids, and 6-8 shamans. Sorry priests, you are the weakest link. But fear not, Blizzard may start using math and finally fix your class, (or nerf druids).
Personally, I'd rather use my 1.5 second Flash Heal which consistently heals for 1250 as a non-crit than a 2 second rank 3 healing spell which only does about 800 when in min-maxed healing gear. I'm not too concerned with its mana efficiency (which is still good, mind you), since I seldom run out of mana with the way I adjust my play-style to compliment my raid party, and each encounter I'm facing.
| | | http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=6753929&p=#post6781639 | Poster: Eyonix at 1/23/2006 12:18:14 PM PST
Subject: Re: How many priests do you need for BWL? |
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sooo, why greater heal in aq?
We're improving Greater Heal in the next patch. Details will follow shortly.
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