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Korosha
I'm not sure if this is just common knowledge but I dont think it's covered elsewhere. I just got back into healing on my pally and espically in heroics I melée a lot. SoW returns around 1200 and JoW 600. My question is geared toward raids. Is it smart to take a swing at something during boss fights? I'm not struggling on mana on anything I've healed yet but does anyone else do this?(and of course only take a swing at the back of a mob)
thanks
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svirve
Swing away if you have the oppurtunity, if you don't, stay out of the effing cleave and throw some healz.
P.S.
It is covered in the stickies.
A small discussion on judgments
Judge as often as possible, for several reasons. One is your JotP buff from talents, giving you 15% haste. Another is the Heart of the Crusader debuff you might have if you're sub-specced ret. This increases the crit chance against whatever you judge by 3%. Also, if you use SoW* and JoW, you can get a lot of mana back from judging something. It's worth doing whenever you get the chance. Keep in mind though, that 'as often as possible' means if
absolutely no one will need cleansing, healing, or a mitigation cooldown within the next 1.5 seconds.
There are many advantages to judging, but none of them, nor all of them put together, are worth letting a raid member die, under any circumstances. Remember your first job is always to heal.
*Using this seal is also a good reason to melee things if you can, since you get quite a lot of mana back from doing so. Just try not to do something stupid like stand in an AoE or forget to heal someone. As a rule of thumb, you're
usually
safer away from a boss, though some fights aren't like that. Basically, meleeing things for mana with SoW can be a very helpful thing to do if you know the fight and you pay attention. If you don't know the fight or you just focus on getting mana back, you'll get yourself and several raid members killed. Healing is still your first priority, unless you literally don't have the mana to FoL and you're out of cooldowns. I would strongly recommend against doing this for fights you haven't done before. DBM isn't psychic or sentient. No addon can tell you for sure if you're putting yourself into some kind of unnecessary danger.
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Korosha
Thanks guess I overlooked it
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