08-16-2010, 02:54 PM
Or people could just not be retards and follow the bouncing yellow dot. I don't think I've taken a single point of spirit damage on any of our 25 man attempts. And I'm fucking stopping to throw out 1.2 second heals as we go. Seeing people's names scroll through failbot is frustrating. There's no reason whatsoever for melee to even take the slightest amount of damage from those. Really, there's no reason for anyone to take any damage from them at all. The whole thing is ridiculously easy. The right answer to “Shit, we’re taking a lot of damage in the Frostmourn room” is not to compensate for bad, but to get better (likely people who don’t run 10 mans just need more practice time).
I don't AM much since it requires that I not heal at all for roughly 4 seconds during a period of time where incoming damage is high (obviously damage is being taken or AM would be worthless). There's only one GCD involved, however I don't have the capability to bind that much shit to my mouse or keyboard. Which means that I am manually clicking my auras. It takes me 2-3 seconds to switch to Shadow, AM, then switch back to Conc - then another 1.2 seconds while my HL casts. This seems like a retarded use of my time when people could just not be dumb. Especially given how easy it is for a tank to get absolutely wrecked in that amount of time. It may be helpful to pop these in Frostmourn room if the raidwide DOT is Shadow. Personally, I’d still rather toss HLs (especially since HL glyph splash heals for a fuck ton if everyone stacks like they should), but I guess it depends on how much damage can be mitigated by 6 seconds of AM.
Bubble Sac, on the other hand, takes no longer than my average HL. No one has ever given me any sort of assignment with it, so for the most part, I am just using it as a clutch in awkward situations where it seems needed. Most of the time this is the Infest after a Disc gets picked up.
I've done pretty much the same thing with HoJ. I position myself near the Valk path and hang out there while healing. If a Valk looks like it got away from the pack or someone's yelling about getting a stun on something because they got picked up, I'm there to hit it.
TLDR:
Six seconds of AM is not the solution to high damage Frostmourn phases. Practice at not standing underneath pulsing balls of doom is.
I don't AM much since it requires that I not heal at all for roughly 4 seconds during a period of time where incoming damage is high (obviously damage is being taken or AM would be worthless). There's only one GCD involved, however I don't have the capability to bind that much shit to my mouse or keyboard. Which means that I am manually clicking my auras. It takes me 2-3 seconds to switch to Shadow, AM, then switch back to Conc - then another 1.2 seconds while my HL casts. This seems like a retarded use of my time when people could just not be dumb. Especially given how easy it is for a tank to get absolutely wrecked in that amount of time. It may be helpful to pop these in Frostmourn room if the raidwide DOT is Shadow. Personally, I’d still rather toss HLs (especially since HL glyph splash heals for a fuck ton if everyone stacks like they should), but I guess it depends on how much damage can be mitigated by 6 seconds of AM.
Bubble Sac, on the other hand, takes no longer than my average HL. No one has ever given me any sort of assignment with it, so for the most part, I am just using it as a clutch in awkward situations where it seems needed. Most of the time this is the Infest after a Disc gets picked up.
I've done pretty much the same thing with HoJ. I position myself near the Valk path and hang out there while healing. If a Valk looks like it got away from the pack or someone's yelling about getting a stun on something because they got picked up, I'm there to hit it.
TLDR:
Six seconds of AM is not the solution to high damage Frostmourn phases. Practice at not standing underneath pulsing balls of doom is.