Oizen

True story. You'd be back in the green by the time the mob was engaged. It was awesome.

Notaguru2

Having ditched a raiding coercer for my first love, healing, all I can say is I feel like I'm in slow motion while playing the defiler. I'm wanting to spam all kinds of spells, but its just not happening.

The slowness of the class (to me) seems to have taken a lot of the critical thinking out of the defiler. I'm not knocking it...I love playing the defiler. I guess if we could cast any faster, we'd be OP. (Probably why we can't cast alacrity on ourselves...gawd, that'd be awesome)

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Denna

I'd give my left nut to be able to cast Alacrity on myself.

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Laresh

I disagree it takes critical thinking out. My most common thoughts during the tougher raid fights are about what spell will be the most efficient/beneficial based on how long it will take to cast, along with the judgement that the tank will survive any massive spike dmg hits while I'm casting my slower spells.

Being a good shaman is all about predicting whats going to happen, because its our job to counteract whatever comes.

Based on how I read the fight my casting order can completely change to maximize my impact on it. Playing a druid I didn't feel that at all, it was just whack-a-mole mashing the heal spells and keep HoTs rolling.

Notaguru2

I didn't mean it to sound the way I said it. I just meant, given the cast times we have time to think about scenarios (at least I do).

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