08-14-2008, 10:33 PM
I'm disgruntled by the downranking change. On the live realms, its simply not possible to cast max rank Greater Heal or Flash Heal non-stop. Therefore to ensure your mana lasts for the duration of the fight, you have to either cancel casts, or use lower ranks of spells. There are lots of fights (Brutallus) where its simply too risky to cancel a heal on a tank - in the half second between choosing to cancel a heal because the tank is at full health and when the heal would have landed if you hadn't cancelled, the tank's health might have dropped in half. Plus I play on an Oceanic realm, where 300ms latency is a a good day lag-wise.
Managing your mana pool was one of the key challenges of playing a healer, and downranking was part of that. Sometimes I don't need to 6000 points of damage, I only need to heal 3000 points of damage. I can choose to heal that damage with a fast expensive heal (Max Rank Flash Heal) or a slower, more efficient heal (mid rank Greater Heal) depending on the situation.
If Blizzard gives healers such amazing regen that they can cast max rank large heals non-stop, it takes away one of the elements of skill that I liked about playing a healer.
Chris
Managing your mana pool was one of the key challenges of playing a healer, and downranking was part of that. Sometimes I don't need to 6000 points of damage, I only need to heal 3000 points of damage. I can choose to heal that damage with a fast expensive heal (Max Rank Flash Heal) or a slower, more efficient heal (mid rank Greater Heal) depending on the situation.
If Blizzard gives healers such amazing regen that they can cast max rank large heals non-stop, it takes away one of the elements of skill that I liked about playing a healer.
Chris