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Thoughts on Healer Types and Taskings - 2005/09/11 04:04
Thoughts on Healer Types and Taskings 2005.0911
I am thinking about ways to improve raid healing strategy. I will update this and when I have some more definite conclusions this will be incorporated in another article.
Although it is traditional for healers to be assigned to heal the particular group they are in, CTRaid also allows healers to view multiple parties in a raid or even to organize health bars by class rather than party. With this tool, the only inherent significance of the 5-man party is for group buffs (including auras, totems, and Imp stamina and fire shield buffs). It might, for example, be more efficient to have a group of 3 tanks, a warlock, and a shaman or paladin to focus for melee buff purposes while having another with 4 healers and a shaman or paladin for efficient mana buffs. 5 Rogues might be grouped together. It is also possible to assign healers to heal across multiple classes, multiple parties, or the entire raid in order to maximize efficiency. By focusing on the particular strengths of difference classes and builds, it can improve efficiency (in particular, reduce overhealing) to assemble task forces of different classes and types of healers to more efficiently heal specific party members or classes. Examples follow the discussion of types of healers below - your input is most welcome.
Healer Types:
HOT specialists - Druids and also Priests with high +Heal. Their HOTs are greatly improved, and for raid healing efficiency it is the Druid with the highest Rejuv tick and the Priest with the highest Renew tick who should be putting these HOTs (a) on the Tanks and (b) to the extent feasible, on other key Raid members including healers. Paladins with high +Heal and appropriate talents and buffs have extremely long healing endurance using relatively low mana heals which operate in effect as HOT.
Regen specialists - These are healers with a heavy loadout of +mana gear. Both high spirit and +mana improve regen, but only +mana is independent of whether the player is casting or not. This makes +mana casters especially suited for intermittent healing or decursing over an extended period of time. This particularly suits healing party members taking varying amounts of intermittent damage, such as Raid-wide healing of DPS classes.
High-Spirit builds - High spirit builds are well suited for rotation healing on main tanks as after going OOM they can step out and rapidly regen while waiting for their next rotation.
INT builds - Healers who focus on maximizing mana have the deepest mana pools. They are comparatively more efficient at chain healing main tanks and other key raid members and at decursing. Shaman tend to focus on mana rather than +Heal, Regen or Spirit and I view their spammable Lesser Healing Wave as particularly well suited for chain healing.
Healing Tasking - Examples: Organization of Raid members by classes to group each class together makes the following quite easy using CTRaid.
A regen healer might be assigned to spot heal all rogues, mages, and warlocks in a Raid, or to heal the first half of each of these classes while another heals the second half in a situation where the members of each class are spread over a wide area (this requires each person know which general area to be in).
A task force of healers might cover the main tank and backup tank. Two spirit-build healers could take rotation on non-HOTs while a HOT specialist could keep HOTs on the tanks whenever they are taking damage as well as on others in the raid and a mana regen specialist would decurse and spot heal as needed, focusing on the tanks when the rotation healers get too low.
The most useful CTRaid health option is Deficit, so it is easy to set a protocol such as HOTs only on the tank when the deficit is less than 1000 health, flash heal/LHW below that point, and start greater heal or equivalents at 2000 deficit. If everyone knows what is expected, overhealing is reduced and valuable mana conserved.
When healing using a Druid I spend most of my time as a HOT specialist and use INT or HOT as a Priest (depending on whether wearing INT or +Heal gear). I focus on INT and heal spamming for Shaman and Paladin (the Paladin may benefit from a +Heal virtual HOT strategy eventually).
Your comments and experience please.
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Re:Thoughts on Healer Types and Taskings - 2005/09/27 13:50
Pretty nice classification of types and tasks, but i think that mana regen specialist can also take place on the main tank healing. My priest has atm 95mp/5sec, 280 spirit unbuffed. I also have mediation and always carry lots of nighfin snappers (+8mp/5sec). With improved bow (+36mp/5sec) i have 139mp/5sec. Combine this to my 7.3K mp unbuffed, buffs, nightdragons and greater mana pots. I am main healer on Ragnaros and i dont even need innervate or major mana potions. Inner focus also comes handy for 2 extra heals.
In molten core i usually dont heal main tank and i am a raid wide healer doing 18-20% of healing despite the fact tha we usually have 7 priest, 6 paladins and 3 druids. But i think tha mana regen priests are also pretty good healing the main tank. When you pass a frontier in mana regen even at the hardest fights where chain healing is required, mana regen priests outlast int priests.
Antara of Highborns on Crushridge Europe
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