Ehcks wrote:
Bacon of Light was weak. It's probably great for 5-mans with AoE bosses, but when you have 7 or 8 healers, you'll barely see any extra healing from it. Your target, or your beacon target, will be healed before your heal goes off, and it's just wasted mana.
People have said this since patch day, but I have yet to see it. In full Baconator mode I've shot up the healing charts without seeing a ton of overhealing. Our most recent ZA clear, if Recount is to be believed, showed me at just shy of 60% total healing, with the rest split between a non-Bacon Holydin in better gear and a quite good Resto Druid raid healer who was spamming HoTs like a crazy man. And yes, before you ask, I was Judging on nearly every cooldown and frequently throwing in Holy Shocks and HoWs whenever possible.
The night before, I solo healed through the top half of Kara without a problem, a feat made possible by Bacon. We're running the first few bosses of SSC/TK with only 4-5 healers. Perhaps there's a neural network/band of brothers phenomenon going on with my guildies, but I'm never seeing my target, or my beacon's target, getting topped off before my heal lands, even in a 10- and 25-man environment.
I mean no disrespect to the deep Ret healers, and I look forward to experimenting with a Sheath of Light build myself, but a lot of the early criticism of Bacon seems unfounded in my experience thus far.
That's my two cents for you.