Comments on: Keeping Your Head Above Water in 4.0.1

By: Catching Up (Part 1) « porkchopsnholysauce

Catching Up (Part 1) « porkchopsnholysauce — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:11:54 +0000

[...] to the party. While pouring over various blog post and resource sites (a big shoutout Opelie for this post) it became obvious to me that with the new pally healing spell priority I was going to need [...]

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:39:39 +0000

That sounds pretty good! I had a feeling our mastery was pretty strong, but with no way to track numbers, it was impossible to know for sure.

ALJGKLDSFJKSD I wish I had a computer right now =/ I’d be all over the new recount.

By: jamman

jamman — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:24:23 +0000

forgot to add – unbuffed haste is currently 760. I use manta steaks and a speed elixir

By: jamman

jamman — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:22:52 +0000

I’ve just had a go at the LK with the new version of Recount (the one that now tracks illuminated healing).
It came out at 16.6% of my total heals. Using skada to cross reference was around the same: both reported total absorbs of between 1.5 and 1.8 million for the night.
I’ve currently reforged for 14.14% mastery. Looks like the stat to go for – which I guess was the idea.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:54:31 +0000

I’ll have to look more into that and get back to you!

By: jamman

jamman — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:23:00 +0000

Thanks for the info – it’s been hugely useful.
Once thing that I was wondering – I have recently seen people trying to factor in the effect of latency on the amount of haste that you need. Khor over at http://retributionpaladins.com has an article about the effects of latency on the amount of haste you need to hit the soft cap as ret.
Based on this reasoning, doesn’t it bump our mastery higher up the scale i.e. if extra haste is being wasted due to latency then bumping up the size of the shields we create should be more important, particularly due to the raid wide damage we have to deal with in icecrown at the moment.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:34:26 +0000

Yeah, I’ve heard good things about paladin healing in Cataclysm. From the sound of it, Blizzard was so excited to introduce the level 85 healadin that they didn’t bother tuning the level 80 paladin. Thing is, we still have 6 weeks or so to go and most of us want to be viable from until then.

With the spell boosts, it’s a lot less stressful. I’m not performing as well on the meters as I did before the patch, but at least I feel like I’m fully contributing to the raid.

By: Kimboslice

Kimboslice — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:37:43 +0000

I have been watching some videos from beta Cat raids and the ones from healer point of views all have paladins outhealing everyone else on the meters. Looks like Holy Light and Divine Light for tank healing and Word of Glory and the AOE Spray heal for grouping up

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:49:56 +0000

I don’t think its possible stand there and execute a perfect rotation. There’s too much usage of cooldowns, repositioning, etc. We’re not dps dammit! I even almost lost a tank once because I was so busy worrying about which spell came next that I didn’t use LoH. Felt like such a noob.

Even on EJ some seem to be saying that while a ToR rotation is currently the highest hps, we’re not in Cataclysm yet and can’t heal like we’re in Cataclysm.

It just doesn’t seem fair for us to have a class that has to wait for the expansion to be properly tuned =/

By: Grindin

Grindin — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 06:09:17 +0000

Please feel free to stalk my logs. The toon is Oriyune of Risen Anarchy on Lightbringer. Though after tonight..I’m not so sure how many more logs there will be…If something doesn’t change, I may need a break.

Tonight was simply awful. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but the throughput is just not there. And the extreme proccy nature of our style is not conducive to healing imo. It is very difficult to not make a mistake when there are so many variables to monitor on every single cast. Not to mention in icc25 hard mode, you need to be very raid aware as well. Sure I did have some very nice 18k shocks and 27k WoG’s, but overall…brutal.