Told I cannot HoT melee in BWL (any raid where people go nuts and get every buff).
This floored me last night as I focus on tank heals as swiftmend but I cannot swiftmend clutch heal without HoTs. It destroyed my reaction time as I had to check first if my targets were melee. My raid leader specifically told me not to HoT melee but I imagine anyone with all buffs cannot be HoTed. i know a hotfix went out but it sounds like “helpful auras” may still be an issue?
I honestly have no idea what to do here besides being a worthless r3/r4 HT drone. At this point I guess just go back to HotW and have some fun outside of raids. it is a shame cause i am geared to the teeth and if I can only cast HT than why not just bring another OP shammy?
Your groups should be organized by melee, anyway. You can also set up your raid frames to sort by class/role.
Regarding the buff cap, even the fix to Arcanums no longer taking up a buff slot only freed up two more consumes I was already foregoing. It doesn’t mean you get to Rejuv or Priests get to Renew. It means I get to use Juju Might and Juju Power again.
I’d just hot them anyways, they what are they going to do boot you cause you healed them? If they do you just got the better of that situation anyways, lol.
It’s not about meter watching. I need those things to generate more threat and minimize the risk of a DPS pulling aggro. The faster the boss dies, the less likely healers are to go OOM and the less likely people are to die from mechanics. Fewer mistakes, etc. The faster each boss (and trash pack) dies, the faster we clear the raid and the more efficient each consumable we use is.
If you push off world buffs every week because you wanted to do 20 more HPS on a Resto Druid? Yeah, probably.
Bringing more than one resto Druid to raids is a waste in classic, if the raid is using max buffs. The entire toolkit is borked due to buff caps and HT is so long of a cast that you just get heal sniped. Druids in these classic raids are buff bots, FF bots, decurse/poison removal bots and… well nothing else
Pretty much this. Everyone just spams fast heal because we can get away with it. Have literally 0 mana efficiency talents on my druid and give no cares. Lasts as long as the fights anyway.
because the hots take up valuable buff slots, and everyone wants to flex on the meters. there is some discussion about this on melee forums talking about if talents are also taking up buff slots and if so how does that work, and so on and maybe certain talents are actually bad because they eat buff slots that are better used on world buffs and things like that. Because blizzard does not open up and just tell us how much buff slots we really have to work with an what if any talents tally on that list its hard to say.