{"id":1653,"date":"2011-01-28T18:57:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T23:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurn.apotheosis-now.com\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2011-01-28T18:57:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T23:57:06","slug":"my-chimaeron-job-spec-glyphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/my-chimaeron-job-spec-glyphs\/","title":{"rendered":"My Chimaeron Job, Spec & Glyphs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned the other day<\/a> that I have myself on group healing for Chimaeron. A commenter, ambient, asked this:<\/p>\n

You haven\u2019t group healed on your paladin in ages\u2026is there a reason you put the druid and priest on tank duties and gave both the paladins group assignments?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I put the resto druid and one of my disc priests on the two tanks because we’d tried resto druids on groups on our first night on Chimaeron and it didn’t work out amazingly. I like to have one disc on a tank on any given fight because she prefers tank healing while the other prefers raid healing.<\/p>\n

So why give the paladins group assignments?<\/p>\n

Walks, the other holy paladin in Apotheosis, loves group healing. I stick him on the raid and tell him to beacon a tank and while he’ll need some help to keep the tank up, he’s excellent at using Light of Dawn and Holy Radiance to their maximum effects to keep up raid healing. He’s also just a great healer in general and a very strong player. So I gave him the melee group (group 2). While he wasn’t going to use Light of Dawn on them, he was comfortable with healing a group.<\/p>\n

I, on the other hand, was not, but, by golly, if Walks could do it, so could I! Or so I reasoned.<\/p>\n

I went in to our second night of Chimaeron attempts (where we killed him) with a really sub-par spec for the encounter. I have two specs. My “primary” is one I don’t use often, actually, and is the one I use to switch up things. My “secondary” is a very safe tank healing spec where I don’t presume that all my Holy Power will go to Light of Dawn and where I have Eternal Glory and all that jazz.<\/p>\n

My spec last week that I used for Chimaeron didn’t have Eternal Glory. Which is pretty fail. We won anyways, but I knew I could do better.<\/p>\n

So this week, this was my spec: 31\/5\/5<\/a><\/p>\n

A Tower of Radiance-less, Aura Mastery-less spec with Blessed Life, of all things, that still had Last Word, Eternal Glory and a bit of extra judgement range, since I knew I’d be standing with a ranged group. My glyphs were Holy Shock, Seal of Insight and Word of Glory, plus Divinity, Divine Protection and Salvation. I made a macro to bind my Divine Protection use to Holy Radiance, which I used on every Feud, so that I wouldn’t be a complete idiot and FORGET to use Divine Protection, as I am prone to doing. It happens when you see EVERYONE IN THE RAID at one health, you know?<\/p>\n

With Word of Glory, Holy Shock, Infusion of Light procs for faster Holy Lights\/Divine Lights and Daybreak procs, it’s really not too hard for a paladin to group heal. Your attention CANNOT waver, though. No blindly clicking your heal button on a single target while you look around the screen at various timers or indicators, nothing like that — at least, not for me. As soon as my attention would slip, people would die. (I did apologize to my party beforehand.)<\/p>\n

So I was a lot more prepared last night, thanks to my screwy spec. I kept Light of Dawn over Aura Mastery because my plan was to have some Holy Power saved up to blast a Light of Dawn now and again on Feuds, but hey, that didn’t work out. At least I remembered my Holy Radiance!<\/p>\n

Anyways, I did want to share that. And I do want to talk more about the state of paladin healing, but I’m not ready to tackle it yet. Part of that post will expand on the answer I’m about to give for the second of ambient’s questions:<\/p>\n

Why is it that you hate PotI? Did you mean to say that you love it? Cos I can\u2019t see what the downside of it is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I hate passive healing. I loathe it. Can’t stand it. I think every single heal that I cast should be something I meant to cast. I resent that Protector of the Innocent automatically heals me and I hate that it transfers through the beacon. I am a huge fan of pre-emptive healing and reactionary healing, but passive healing? Not something I dig. I feel strongly that my heals should be measured, careful, decisions, not “oh here, here’s a free heal for you AND your beacon target!!!”.<\/p>\n

And I’ll get into that some more when I eventually tackle a post about some different ways of paladin healing in Cataclysm. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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