Posts Tagged ‘healing’
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Most classes find themselves healing differently if they are assigned to tank healing than if they were put on raid healing duty. There are several reasons for this, one is obviously mana management while another is healing output and efficiency. Once again this post will focus mostly on a 10 man scenario where it’s beneficial to know how to heal both the tanks and the raid, however, each section will touch upon the healing rotations you might favour in 25 man where the healing assignments are stricter.
This is meant to help understand how your co-healer works, as well as help those new to healing to get a basic understanding how their class works in regards to tank and raid healing. The abilities most commonly used by each classes have been explained in the introduction to each class, so you can use those as a reference point should you need it: discipline priest, holy priest, restoration druid, restoration shaman and holy paladin.
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Tags: disc, druid, healing, holy, opinion, paladin, priest, raid, shaman, spells
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
Addons are useful additions to the default World of Warcraft UI that assist gameplay. Addons come in all shapes and sizes from the large boss mod type packages to the tiny addons that help you align your UI elements. This post will focus on the ones useful for healing classes, with some explanation of what each one does.
First of all, you don’t need any addons to be a good healer. I’ve played with people who play with the default UI and have kept up with people with completely customised UIs. That said, healing addons can make your time healing less frustrating by making mundane actions like buffing semi-automated or at the very least, make it easier to see situations that require your attention.
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Tags: addon, guide, healing, opinion
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Friday, April 23rd, 2010
You can do more than just get your shiny gear and that is what will be discussed here. Gemming and enchanting it to the best of your ability will make the gear even better and up your stats even more. Then you can use self buffs such as food and elixirs or a flask prior to an encounter to further maximise your stats. If you are particular about your stats and want an ever further boost, particularly useful in a progression oriented guilds, you could choose professions which would benefit you most stats wise. Finally I will touch upon glyph swapping and how that can benefit you for certain encounters.
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Tags: buff, druid, enchanting, gear, gem, glyphs, healing, paladin, priest, profession, shaman
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Saturday, April 10th, 2010
I wasn’t really going to write anything about these previews, simply because what I’ve seen so far seems reasonable and the characters I play have had a couple of things I’ve been excited about and not really anything I’m particularly disappointed. The plan was to add an overall view towards the end of my healing series. Then they added the druid preview, the one I care the most about…
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Tags: cataclysm, druid, healing
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Jumping straight into high end raiding at level 80 might not be a good idea. First of all you are likely get laughed at trying to get into a raid the day you reach level 80 and have a mix of blue and green quality gear. Secondly you are likely to not have experience anywhere near what would be required for raid healing, but that is for another chapter of these series. Let’s concentrate on gearing up and getting ready first. There are crafted gear, emblem gear and instance drops available which are all fairly easily obtainable and should get you geared quickly. Let’s have a closer look at what is available then. But first let’s make sure our spec and abilities are good to go.
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Tags: craft, emblems, gear, healing, loot, spec
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Saturday, March 27th, 2010
- A typical tank healer with big heals for everybody should they need it or not
Introduction
Holy paladins are known for their excellent tank healing abilities. There are mainly two different schools of paladin healing where one side favours the big heals with Holy Light and the other rely more on chain spamming Flash of Light. This is a brief introduction to paladin healing which is meant to provide information to those not familiar with this way of healing.
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Tags: healing, mana, opinion, paladin, spells, stats, WotLK
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
- A beam of light flashes through the party trying to save as much as possible before all is lost…
Introduction
You are likely to see two different ways of healing as a shaman. One will spam Chain Heal so much it looks like they have few other abilities, while the other will stick more with single target healing such as Lesser Healing Wave. This is merely intended as a brief introduction to the world of restoration shamans.
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Tags: healing, mana, opinion, shaman, spells, stats, WotLK
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
- HoTs, baby! Yeah!
Introduction
A druid is particularly famous for both being in tree form and for having a wide range of heal over time spells (HoTs) to choose from. There are a few different types of PvE trees where the main ones are the 25 man raid healer, the 25 man tank healer or the 10 man healer. These often value different types of tactics and sometimes also slightly different stats on gear. This is going to be a quick introduction to tree healing for those not familiar with it.
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Tags: druid, healing, mana, opinion, spells, stats, WotLK
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Monday, March 22nd, 2010
- A holy priest is often great at keeping the whole raid alive, especially in AoE situations.
Introduction
A holy priest is a strong AoE healing class because of its wide range of multi target healing abilities. This post on the holy priest as meant as a presentation of the healing class before venturing into a more comparative section on all the healing classes later on in the series.
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Tags: healing, holy, mana, opinion, priest, spells, stats, WotLK
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Saturday, March 20th, 2010
- Absorbing damage is a unique and important part of discipline healing.
Introduction
A discipline priest is a strong tank healing class which helps ensure the raid takes less damage that needs to be healed through. This is only going to scrape the surface of discipline priest healing so those who are not too familiar with this way of healing can use this as a point of reference for the remaining parts of the healing series.
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Tags: disc, healing, mana, opinion, priest, spells, stats, WotLK
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