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Whack-a-mole Revisited
Submitted by RSS-Bot on Tue, 03/16/2010 - 4:33pm
I haven't posted on my blog in quite some time, but I figured I'd present an idea I've had.
Now as my warlock is basically as geared as I need to get him for all content (he's not amazingly geared, but he's very well geared), I've turned my attention to my Druid and Shaman and have been focusing on trying to gear them up a bit as well as try ICC as a tank, Boomkin, Tree, Ele Shammy and Resto Shammy.
When tanking on my druid, I honestly think that this is the single most well-developed facet of WoW. That of the tank. You must input commands every 1.5 seconds, time CD's properly, and make a ton of threat (especially when grouped with locks).
The Boomkin and Ele builds are primarily for fun and if I just need to squeeze in a heroic or two as DPS.
I swapped my druid to Tree last night and my Shammy has always primarily been resto. Healing is a blast, don't get me wrong, but it has actually taken some pretty massive steps backwards since BC, except for perhaps the shaman. Granted, I didn't heal with my Druid in BC, primarily because she didn't exist, but I did have a shammy with 3 ranks of the same spell bound on my bars, since you had to downrank back then or you'd blow through an entire mana bar quick as all hell.
Healing in WoW has always been and remains whack-a-mole. But a big part of the actual strategy has been gutted since you aren't worried about ranks as much as you are worried about trying to heal near-insta-death damage much of the time. Which is all well and good, but it would be like if you missed a Molten Core proc and you blew up like on Vael....lol.
What's the point?
It's pretty simple.
Instead of continually playing see-saw, you give certain healers a debuff of some sort that is your mana regen.
You have to get it up and keep it up to keep your mana flowing. Like a hybrid VE/Divine Plea type deal.
For PVP balancing you make this the very first thing dispelled from a friendly target at all times.
For PVE this enables damage to be toned down a bit, so it's less bursty and more consistent over time.....
It also adds another layer to healing........
Now as my warlock is basically as geared as I need to get him for all content (he's not amazingly geared, but he's very well geared), I've turned my attention to my Druid and Shaman and have been focusing on trying to gear them up a bit as well as try ICC as a tank, Boomkin, Tree, Ele Shammy and Resto Shammy.
When tanking on my druid, I honestly think that this is the single most well-developed facet of WoW. That of the tank. You must input commands every 1.5 seconds, time CD's properly, and make a ton of threat (especially when grouped with locks).
The Boomkin and Ele builds are primarily for fun and if I just need to squeeze in a heroic or two as DPS.
I swapped my druid to Tree last night and my Shammy has always primarily been resto. Healing is a blast, don't get me wrong, but it has actually taken some pretty massive steps backwards since BC, except for perhaps the shaman. Granted, I didn't heal with my Druid in BC, primarily because she didn't exist, but I did have a shammy with 3 ranks of the same spell bound on my bars, since you had to downrank back then or you'd blow through an entire mana bar quick as all hell.
Healing in WoW has always been and remains whack-a-mole. But a big part of the actual strategy has been gutted since you aren't worried about ranks as much as you are worried about trying to heal near-insta-death damage much of the time. Which is all well and good, but it would be like if you missed a Molten Core proc and you blew up like on Vael....lol.
What's the point?
It's pretty simple.
Instead of continually playing see-saw, you give certain healers a debuff of some sort that is your mana regen.
You have to get it up and keep it up to keep your mana flowing. Like a hybrid VE/Divine Plea type deal.
For PVP balancing you make this the very first thing dispelled from a friendly target at all times.
For PVE this enables damage to be toned down a bit, so it's less bursty and more consistent over time.....
It also adds another layer to healing........
