Λίγα τα νέα τις τελευταίες μέρες, το σημαντικότερο όλον ίσως είναι ότι το patch 3.3.3 θα καθυστερήσει λίγο ακόμα, και σίγουρα δεν αναμένεται στο επόμενο reset.
Για όσους παίζουν healers, μια μικρή βλέψη στο "σχέδιο" της blizzard για εμάς στο cataclysm.
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| Healing and Mana Efficiency in Cataclysm
- Imagine you have 3 heals: normal, big and fast. The big heal is expensive and the fast heal isn't very efficient.
In your 1st tier, healers use their normal heal. The others are reserved for emergencies. In subsequent tiers, their regen is such that they can afford to branch out more into the expensive big heal and the inefficient fast heal. But while that is happening, the encounters are stepping up too. You'll need the fast heal sometimes because the damage is coming in too fast. You'll need the big heal more because sometimes you have to get someone back from the brink in a single GCD. Fortunately, as you approach the final tier, your mana regen is such that you can handle not casting your base heal as often.
The problem currently is that efficiency is a pretty low concern given that if you don't land a heal right this second, someone may die, and your chance of running out of mana is pretty low in the first place. There is every reason to just use the inefficient flash heal. Likewise, health is too low (relative to damage) so the big heal is just overhealing. And someone can probably flash your target up before you finish that long cast.
- If you use your efficient heal 100% of the time, then sometimes people will die for want of a quick or big heal. If you use your quick or big heal 100% of the time, then sometimes you will run out of mana. If you use the right heal for the job, you will be awesome and get fat purps.
- We want the choice that downranking provided (don't use a big heal when a small one will do) without all the problems of gaming the coefficients of the lower level spells.
- Prior to LK, healers wouldn't use their quick / big heal every GCD. They would even stop heals to avoid wasting mana. We're not really trying to bring back cancel macros in a big way, but we would like for the best healers to be the ones who know when to use the right spell at the right time. | |
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