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Leinad:
FUCK YOU FOR BEING RIGHT!1!!1!
Alex C:
I've always been in that weird subset of players that wholeheartedly embraces overhealing. Smart overhealing is a very good thing and a great insurance policy, particularly if you're overgeared but the tank is facing high burst damage. Pre-BC druids are the best example, since Nature's Swiftness was their only way to really crank out clutch healing in a pinch. There was really only two ways of avoiding reliance on the cooldown: bringing another healer along to smooth things out (often hilariously overkill) or by intentionally using heals hefty enough to offset worst case scenario bursts. Plus, there's always those gear check high end mobs that deal so much damage that reactive healing is a recipe for abject failure.
The no threat from overhealing thing is also why it's usually positioning or undergeared people that is the problem when healers pull aggro. You could theoretically use infinitely large heals and never pull aggro provided the rest of your raid is cranking out enough threat to outclass the damage coming in from the target.
Leinad:
--- Quote from: Anyways on 23 Aug 2008, 06:53 ---The question is, Leinad, how long have you been playing under this assumption?
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My healers were good enough in raids I never thought to question them and I don't know where I got the notion that over-healing produced aggro... I think it was when I was helping one of our locks level an alt healer and he was all obsessing over his overhealing, so I just assumed that there was actually something bad about it besides wasting mana.
Lines:
--- Quote from: 20 jazz funk greats on 19 Aug 2008, 20:31 ---k, low level hunters aren't that great at healing their pets.
so it's nice to get a bit of help with that occasionally!
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Sorry about the late response, but I was away for a while. I was talking about a lvl 70 instance (Bot), a rather easy one at that, and honestly, if the hunter is doing his role correctly, there is no reason why his pet should take enough damage to kill it. The one in particular I was talking about was generally NOT doing what he should have been doing, considering the other hunter who was in there had no problems with his pet. If someone doesn't know how to play their character by lvl 70, well that's their problem.
Also, for the overhealing thing, HoTs are awesome and so are threat meters. Also having a paladin in the group that has Salvation. Oh Salv, how I love thee. Also, supposedly there's some little mod (if you're a healer) that helps you know how much you are healing a target and will warn you when you are overhealing. I don't know what it is, though, as I rarely heal on my druid anymore.
Leinad:
Linds, do you agree that Bot is the absolute best instance to run on heroic for a few quick badges? Cause I think so.
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