Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Holy Power generation, and healing.

Alright, well, apparently in 4.1 we're getting a few changes to our rotations as Ret. Word of Glory is now on a 20-second CD if you aren't holy. Kind of takes away from the Ret pally's survivability toolbox, but as it stands I don't think we really need that outside of an unfairly balanced PvP environment. We're damage dealers, not tanks, and with any luck we'll get some kind of buff or new talent to replace the now-nearly-worthless Selfless Healer. Now we'll have to think twice about it, which I'm not really sure is a bad thing. In other news, Divine Storm is getting [meta]-buffed, as it now grants one HP when it hits 4 or more targets. Which only makes sense, as DS and Crusader Strike share a CD, forcing you to choose between AoE and single-target attacks. This should be a nice boost to Ret DPS, especially in dungeons as players gear up and we're able to AoE a little more. My only question is why wasn't this already implemented, Blizz?
Now about healing.....I'm ooming all the time, even though I'm popping all my mana CDs, which keeps me on my toes, I suppose, but makes it hard for hard-headed tanks to realize that this isn't Wrath anymore. Unfortunately....both tanks and DPS don't realize that the healer now needs to drink, which expounds upon the problem of bone-headed DPS taking way too much damage, or forgetting to sheep, or AoE'ing CC'd targets,  or what have you. I've been there as a DPS, it's not that hard to realize something is going to hurt you! They make it pretty clear!
So in summation...please don't stand on top of something that's smoking and rustling like it's going to stab at you. Don't stand in the huge purple circles of death. PLEASE don't attack the feared/sheeped/repented/what have you'd target.
Thanks,
your neighborhood/guild healer

18 comments:

  1. The only kind of pally I ever had was a tank.

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  2. Very intresting post. Going to follow!

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  3. @Something Concupiscible
    I'm planning on going Holy/Prot once I hit 85. I was Holy/Prot til about 61, when I stopped leveling via dungeons and started questing. As soon as I hit 85 I'm going to tank! Can't wait. Pally tanking is so fun.

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  4. nice, i prefer holy over ret :) but good info :)

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  5. Night elf hunter is the same as i played.

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  6. hahaha niceee! havn't played in ages

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  7. I really feel like I missed out when I didn't get into wow like everyone else :(

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  8. I love the language that gets built up around MMOs. At first I thought you were talking about music... Who would publish a 20 second album?

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  9. Would you recommend picking up cataclysm?

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  10. @SKS Yeah the lingo can get pretty jargon-y...ha.

    @everything. Yeah, if you're into MMOs (or if you're intersted in trying one), I'd definitely recomment picking up Cataclysm. It's pretty in depth and if you've played before it's a totally fresh take on game mechanics, enemy encounters, and everything else.

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  11. Thanks for the info. Gonna follow more of this

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  12. DPSers are lazy.
    I don't know many times they
    have strewed me.

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  13. It's been a while since I played WoW, I'll probably buy a month sometime soon.

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