tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272524169407806923.post7102203152016881381..comments2024-03-04T20:04:48.815+01:00Comments on Jinxed Thoughts: I dare you to get rid of SpiritZinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14935881612077507321noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272524169407806923.post-58918881848291803112011-05-10T19:30:01.271+02:002011-05-10T19:30:01.271+02:00I believe stacking regen is a good idea for tier 1...I believe stacking regen is a good idea for tier 11, or more precisely that stacking for sustainable healing is the goal.<br /><br />However, that still points toward stacking intellect over spirit. How good is intellect for regen for priests? For druids, it's better than spirit, so there's no reason at all to get spirit over intellect.<br /><br />However, stacking for sustainable healing does have one counterintuitive result: haste isn't very good. Haste helps sustainable healing a little bit, due to extra HOT ticks, but mostly it just runs you OOM faster. Thus, crit and mastery are surprisingly good in this tier for healers.Ohkenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17335926195392937695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272524169407806923.post-9144269340735895112011-05-10T12:29:36.768+02:002011-05-10T12:29:36.768+02:00@Rades
It does look odd on paper, but that is defi...@Rades<br />It does look odd on paper, but that is definitely the case with me as well. As soon as I start healing heroics, I oom a lot faster. But there are loads of things to it: first of all you have to handle everything yourself, which might alter your style of healing compared to the role you're usually given in raids. Also, because of how pugs work, I often notice that it means using costly heals more often than in raids (believe it or not!). Secondly as I mentioned, there are way less regen tools in pugs usually. I do try to make a heroic run every now and then to keep my healing fit for duty, because that's often where you really get to sweat ^^<br /><br />@Shintar<br />You make some great points, but I don't see why my idea has to exclude those factors! Like I said the idea was that "your mana pool has to be able to sustain all the current content that you're interested in running." If that includes not ooming on trash and being able to throw big heals on boss fights, then throw that into the calculation. You say that the rule only applies to bosses, I disagree. Eventhough I have actually tried to lower my spirit, I rarely have issues with mana on trash. And when I do (like those darn trash before ascendant council) I am far from the only healer ooming. And like I said, nothing about the rule forces you to focus it on boss fights (that just happens to be my focus). It can be about questing if you like. It must suit all your needs, the point was rather to try to identify those needs and not have more spirit than that. Trash and big heals may very well be part of that. Also I said that "This isn't to put extra strain on your fellow healers, you're not supposed to just stop healing". I definitely don't want people to limit themselves to a handful of fights, but rather to optimize themselves to everything they do. Most importantly, be mindful about whether you need that spirit gem or not. Because why run around with excess spirit if you don't need it?Zinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14935881612077507321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272524169407806923.post-30885097832379670602011-05-10T02:50:11.714+02:002011-05-10T02:50:11.714+02:00Hm, I kind of have to disagree there, for two reas...Hm, I kind of have to disagree there, for two reasons:<br /><br />1. Trash: The rule of wanting to have only just enough mana only really applies to bosses. I doubt that your heroic pug or even your raid will be happy if you're completely empty and in need of a drink after every single pull. So there's value in having mana to spare.<br /><br />2. Having more regen allows me to cast my bigger and more expensive spells more often without ooming, so it does give me more spell power in a way. This factor only becomes meaningless if you're already spamming your biggest and most expensive spells all the time and still not ooming (as was the case in WOTLK a lot of the time), but I'm still miles away from that in Cataclysm...Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272524169407806923.post-22108435841209978932011-05-10T01:59:00.626+02:002011-05-10T01:59:00.626+02:00I find the Spirit balance very difficult right now...I find the Spirit balance very difficult right now, because I'm still pugging a lot of Heroics on my Priest, and I never know what kind of group/tank I'll end up with. On the few times I've been raiding, I've found myself actually OOM-ing LESS than in some Heroic groups! In fact, when the other healers are both gasping for Mana and I'm still above 50% with my mana regen spells unused, it makes me think I've got waaaay too much Spirit. But I still OOM in some Heroic groups...so I'm not sure what I should do, haha.Radeshttp://orcisharmyknife.comnoreply@blogger.com