Comments on: Overhealing is OK

By: Analogue

Analogue — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:28:49 +0000

Thanks for the confirmation there. My shaman is working her way toward level 50 right now so my resto shaman knowledge is weak.

I can’t agree more – if you end the fight with more than 5% mana, I don’t care what your overheal numbers look like!

By: Zahia

Zahia — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:22:23 +0000

In fact, you can also do a lot of overhealing as a shaman.
A big part of our raid healing tools are hots now, and many of these are passive. These hots often do a lot of overhealing. It’s not rare to have 50% overhealing on our main spell, Healing Rain.

Overhealing is not bad… except if your run out of mana

By: repgrind

repgrind — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:10:03 +0000

Massacre. Lol. you really DO hate Chim, don’t you?

It’s Asphyxiate.

By: Analogue

Analogue — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:34:33 +0000

Potatoe, that’s probably part of it. However what I remember is the trouble paladins had getting people up after a Massacre. Er, strangle. Whatever it is. And I didn’t have much trouble at all. Might have been the group makeup of course!

By: potatoe

potatoe — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:20:12 +0000

You may have been remembering pre-nerf Baron when setting your expectations for the fight.

Patch 4.0.6 (2011-02-08): Sadly, in his hubris he has forgotten how to Mend Rotten Flesh.
http://www.wowpedia.org/Baron_Ashbury_(tactics)

By: Analogue

Analogue — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:56:30 +0000

I took my undergeared pally into SFK and expected to have issues with the first boss. Nope. No problem at all. I was kind of amazed actually. Yes having Reversion tank was a big help, as were some pretty well geared dpsers, but I thought that was supposed to be a hard fight for paladins.

By: repgrind

repgrind — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:41:01 +0000

Paladins should be in a fine place for triage healing now. The problem is that a lot of them are still stuck in the ‘I am a single target healer’ mentality from Wrath and can’t wrap their heads around topping anyone off but the tank. I rarely lose anyone unless they are exceptionally bad at moving out of stuff.

By: Osi

Osi — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:29:51 +0000

Blessed, I would say My wife won’t heal or tank for the life of her. She is a pure DPS. so I end up having healing classes (i love healing), and a few tank classes (ick!).

The guild I am in knows I refuse to heal “ancient” tanks (those who are in the pre-cata mentality). I actually consider that griefing (who in their right mind stacks STAM in Cata?), and won’t heal them.

By: Analogue

Analogue — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:25:12 +0000

HAH! I have had arguments with tanks about that. Thank goodness I am married to an intelligent tank who stacks mitigation rather than turning into a giant pool of mana sucking HP.

By: Osi

Osi — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:22:13 +0000

Right, there are a lot of guilds out there that thinks OH is bad. But they are the same guild that thinks tanks should stack STAM ..

lol, this is Cataclysm kiddos! If nobody dies, that is as good thing!