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-MrBean-  Title: Now With Extra Baldness
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Registered: 2001-5-23 14:15:00
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Quazimortal posted:
Auenwing posted:
Hmmm, I switched from my disc priest to the druid to heal as we were leveling. Sounds like the same concerns from priests. Thanks for the heads up. Looks like I need to collect more data for myself and for the guild, (not doubting your statement). My guess is we will end up using a shaman through heroics again, which frees me up to play my DK for the most part, which is the class everyone wants me playing... however, I am skeptical about that as well. We've rerun instances with me on my frost DK and my hubby healing on his priest (and he's finding mana an issue as he gets higher in levels). My DK works just fine through regulars, but once again, those aren't heroics.
I think we're gonna end up leveling a couple of extra alts each until we get a group combo that works again.
That should keep us "busy" for a bit. 
It could always just be the aches and pains of learning a new way of healing of course, but she's a good healer and has played a resto druid for a long time now which makes it hard for me to believe they aren't broke as hell. She can heal heroics with very little troubles on her disc priest and that is with less mana regen.
On a brighter note, I'm really liking how holy paladins turned out at 85 my self. The change nerfed me really hard at 80 but when you get to 85 and decently geared they really shine.
Holy pali's are still somewhat of a bitch. But I guess I am doing good. Finally did a heroic on mine and was able to get 3 guildies together for it. We had the tank, me healing and 2 dps, 3rd was a pugger. We did Tolvar. Through most of it I was okay, since I have mostly learned all the tricks for mana management. But in the end when it came down to Siamat, had the group not been 3 pali's, a druid, and a shadow priest... there would be no way in hell I would have been able to heal that alone. As is everyone had to add in some healing, and we even lost 2 dps on the fight.
That fight there is simply just way too much AOE damage for a single paly with no HoT's to heal through. I call that bad design.
I did get kudos from everyone, even the pugger, which was quite nice. (Was actually my first run ever with guildies as they are east coasters and I am a west coaster. They were up late and were gonna log tell I told em I was gonna heal my first heroic.)
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Quazimortal  Title: The One and Only
Posts: 1,557
Registered: 2004-9-18 21:52:58
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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So, what role do you like to play in groups? |
-MrBean- posted:
Quazimortal posted:
Auenwing posted:
Hmmm, I switched from my disc priest to the druid to heal as we were leveling. Sounds like the same concerns from priests. Thanks for the heads up. Looks like I need to collect more data for myself and for the guild, (not doubting your statement). My guess is we will end up using a shaman through heroics again, which frees me up to play my DK for the most part, which is the class everyone wants me playing... however, I am skeptical about that as well. We've rerun instances with me on my frost DK and my hubby healing on his priest (and he's finding mana an issue as he gets higher in levels). My DK works just fine through regulars, but once again, those aren't heroics.
I think we're gonna end up leveling a couple of extra alts each until we get a group combo that works again.
That should keep us "busy" for a bit.
It could always just be the aches and pains of learning a new way of healing of course, but she's a good healer and has played a resto druid for a long time now which makes it hard for me to believe they aren't broke as hell. She can heal heroics with very little troubles on her disc priest and that is with less mana regen.
On a brighter note, I'm really liking how holy paladins turned out at 85 my self. The change nerfed me really hard at 80 but when you get to 85 and decently geared they really shine.
Holy pali's are still somewhat of a bitch. But I guess I am doing good. Finally did a heroic on mine and was able to get 3 guildies together for it. We had the tank, me healing and 2 dps, 3rd was a pugger. We did Tolvar. Through most of it I was okay, since I have mostly learned all the tricks for mana management. But in the end when it came down to Siamat, had the group not been 3 pali's, a druid, and a shadow priest... there would be no way in hell I would have been able to heal that alone. As is everyone had to add in some healing, and we even lost 2 dps on the fight.
That fight there is simply just way too much AOE damage for a single paly with no HoT's to heal through. I call that bad design.
I did get kudos from everyone, even the pugger, which was quite nice. (Was actually my first run ever with guildies as they are east coasters and I am a west coaster. They were up late and were gonna log tell I told em I was gonna heal my first heroic.)
I've healed through every heroic 5-man dungeon without any major issues, assuming people don't stand in the proverbial fire and all the appropriate adds are killed and interrupts are performed. Sure it's not easy but with proper use of all, and I mean all, skills you should be perfectly capable of keeping your entire group alive through every fight as a holy paladin.
From what I've been hearing HoTs aren't even worth the mana they cost to cast without an insane amount of haste.
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-MrBean- Title: Now With Extra Baldness
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I don't know what Siamat's AoE damage range is... but 4 of us are melee and he was still hitting the shadow priest at range.
My gear level was 329, 330 now. I don't know if you are well over my gear, so it helps... but I see no way a single pali can do it from my run last night.
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st0rmie  Posts: 108
Registered: 2005-4-20 00:33:25
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Since WotLK's release, when I main-switched from rogue to priest, I have been playing healer as my primary role, and I definitely enjoy that the most. I enjoy a bit of DPS from time to time, but healing is where I feel that I'm really important, not just one of the team.
I've tried tanking, not gotten good at it, and found it too frustrating when you're not good at it to perservere, so far.
p.s. despite all the negativity, I would have to see that healing in Cataclysm at present is the most fun it has been in all my experience.
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Quazimortal Title: The One and Only
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Registered: 2004-9-18 21:52:58
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-MrBean- posted:
I don't know what Siamat's AoE damage range is... but 4 of us are melee and he was still hitting the shadow priest at range.
My gear level was 329, 330 now. I don't know if you are well over my gear, so it helps... but I see no way a single pali can do it from my run last night.
My current ilvl is 347 but I was doing Lost City when I had a lower rating, of course it was a lot more challenging then. I don't mind giving advice if you want it.
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-MrBean- Title: Now With Extra Baldness
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Advice away. I am always looking to make myself better any way I can. I'm not stupid, I am a good healer, but there is always room for improvement.
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Quazimortal posted:
Druid healing is very broken right now in case you didn't know.
At least it's not just me. I haven't played in a year, so some of it is probably me being really rusty and adjusting to all the changes... but I don't like healing with my druid at all now.
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IndridCole Posts: 223
Registered: 2009-1-7 16:24:59
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I run DPs on my toons that can, otherwise if they can tank then they do.
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Lately I've enjoyed playing the healer because I enjoy letting people die in purpose just for my own amusement. For instance in my last run I let this ret pally with laughable dps (lol poor ret gimps) die over and over again just so I can bring out Jeeves for repair because I haven't used him in a while. Ahhhhhhh I love having the ability to feel like a God because I control whether someone in my group lives or die because of my healing.
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The_Korrigan  Title: Scrub Buster
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Registered: 2001-7-17 03:51:32
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I tried all possible roles, and I always came back to tank. It's the most involved role for me, you have to pay attention at all times, and not just faceroll your keyboard to top the meters.
I've been DPS (hunter) a long time up to and including raid content, and you'd have to pay me well to go back to that and give up my tank.
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