My tree is one of the main healers for my guild. Our other regular raid healers are a holy pally, a shammy, and a priest. Everyone thinks I'm the best healer we have, but that's mainly because I put out really big numbers. If we take three healers into a 10-man, I won't just top the meter, I'll do twice as much as the second.
I'm worried that this has become something of a self-perpetuating cycle. The other healers tell me not to decurse or abolish poison, they'll take care of that. They think it would be more optimal for one of them to be out of active healing than to take me out. However, that just puts me way up on the meter again, and the perception continues. Don't get me wrong - I'd take a poison cleansing totem over me having to click abolish onto every raid member, but if it comes down between me and the pally for decursing, I don't want to make sub-optimal choices based on just the meter readouts.
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Take 2 healers instead of 3? My guild runs with 2 tanks and 2 healers for the 10 man stuff.
Remind them that recount is a tool; what is important is working together and downing the boss. Any fight that is based on movement (Heigan, I'm looking at you) a druid is going to do very well because we have so many instant cast spells.
This isn't to say that other healers do not have their own importance. Shamans have totems and an awesome raid heal. Paladins have a buff that gives everyone a 10% stat bonus as well as their replenishment. Priests buff spirit and stamina while having an instant cast wild growth type spell (Circle of Healing).
I'm always open to the possibility that maybe you are just that good. Considering you only have 5 blues and some excellent epic items I would expect you to do very well as a healer.
Remind them that recount is a tool; what is important is working together and downing the boss. Any fight that is based on movement (Heigan, I'm looking at you) a druid is going to do very well because we have so many instant cast spells.
This isn't to say that other healers do not have their own importance. Shamans have totems and an awesome raid heal. Paladins have a buff that gives everyone a 10% stat bonus as well as their replenishment. Priests buff spirit and stamina while having an instant cast wild growth type spell (Circle of Healing).
I'm always open to the possibility that maybe you are just that good. Considering you only have 5 blues and some excellent epic items I would expect you to do very well as a healer.
I know the feeling, I suffered from the same "curse" on my Pally in BC. I'd suggest you keep running with the other healers while trying to get them geared, and then maybe try to be absent from a raid or two, to show them they can do it themselves.
Or yeah, just accept your godliness. Maybe you really are that much better than your other healers.
Or yeah, just accept your godliness. Maybe you really are that much better than your other healers.
And the strange thing is, trees lose the LEAST effective healing ability by taking up cleansing (excluding totems, which aren't entirely reliable all of the time) and have some of the most effective and efficient cleansing abilities there are, unless the target takes 1 each of a magic, disease, and poison all at once -- in which Cleanse's tripple clean is just amazing.
If you are dealing with a fight which keeps getting your tank poisoned.. you should simply keep reapplying abolish poison, for the very simple reason that it is the same as multiple cleanses by another healer.
Also, on non-bossfights (give or take a few situations where you wipe if u dont :P ofc) i generally dont cleanse, i outheal. Bossfights i cleanse as much as i can without risking tank dropping low on health
Also, on non-bossfights (give or take a few situations where you wipe if u dont :P ofc) i generally dont cleanse, i outheal. Bossfights i cleanse as much as i can without risking tank dropping low on health
What I do (also being a top healer in my guild, albeit in 25s rather than 10s) is to simply handle the cleansing/decursing I consider critical (Maexxna, Noth, Sapphiron are the ones that jump out to me) and let others handle the ones that aren't as important (say, on Faerlina I leave cleansing to shammies and spam away). I follow the old saying, "If you want something done right, do it yourself," so I don't ignore the nasty stuff and hope someone else picks it up.
On trash, I usually only decurse the tanks on Spider wing trash and everyone on OS trash.
On trash, I usually only decurse the tanks on Spider wing trash and everyone on OS trash.
That reminds me of a OS run I did once where I was the only Druid. I raids as Feral DPS and there is usally either a Boomkin or a Resto Druid in the group (a lot of times both). Anyway I'm there hacking away at the mob and he doesn't seem to be dying. Then the raid leader asked about removing the curse. So from that point on during the raid I stayed back on those trash pulls and cleansed the curse. It was funny to me because I'm so used to having another Druid around I wasn't even aware of the problem at first.
The times I was resto I think the only time I ever had to decurse was on Malacrass in ZA. One of our mages likes to top recount in total decurses and ever since Hyjal he's been our primary decurse machine. Now he does it like it's his job in wotlk.
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