Hesster

I've started an inquis alt, and was looking for tips on healing in single groups. I'll probably never raid with this guy, but I've been in groups with inquis as the sole healer on my other characters and done alright.

My inquis is level 32 at the moment and was in a PUG doing the Crushbone instance the other day, and it seemed that people were dying more than they should have. The tank was a level 34 guardian, but there were a couple of sub-30 DPS toons (assassin, monk) and a 75 warlock guildie who came in and mentored off the guardian to replace an SK who had to leave halfway through the instance. Lots of ^^^ heroic singles and ^^^/^^ heroic pairs. The monk was level 26 and kept drawing aggro for some reason. He'd die in a blink before I could get off a single heal.

I was hampered at the time with a couple of app1 healing spells (which have since been replaced with masters) because I had dinged a couple of times earlier in the session and hadn't had time to get to the broker. I was focused on conserving power for heals and not doing much in the way of DPS other than autoattack.

This is the first time I've actually gotten past the teens with a healer, and I'm just looking for basic advice on keeping everyone alive.

Calain

First Advice:
If your new heals are still App1, stay with your old ones! Even the previous Adept1 should be better then the new App1. The best way to avoid such a situation at all is to buy the spells for the next levels in advance and carry them with you.

Second:
Our STR/INT debuff is great to reduce the damage a mob does. Use it.

Third:
We work bad with an avoidance tank, but if we have one use your attack skill debuff. This will at least reduce the number of hits.

Catseyes

until you reach 45+ , you wont have your full potential. At low level we arent good enough in all sides to dps and heal at same time.

That will depend greatly of your AA level also . Dont level too fast, take time to kill all nameds you can find, to use collections , to finish quests , having battlecleric line + agi and sta cleric lines will help a lot.

__________________
Shadeyes, 80 fae assassin
Fable , Splitpaw
Ymrir, 80 barb inquie ,Lunar Dawn, Befallen

SacDaddy

If you would like some in-game advice Hesster, send a tell to Sacdaddicus or Chilosac

Taee

The monks can be a pain the posterior.

Its not about your ability to heal at all really. Im sure you would have been doing just fine if the monk had used his nogging for thinking a little about what buffs he was running on himself. Sadly they seem to be followers of the allmighty dps deity, and spam the groupchannel with something they call "parses" in their blind worship of that false god.

So let the infidel die. PAINFULLY!



Can be a prob sometimes when the monk is running his dps self buff that also greatly buffs his hate gain. They keep pulling agro from tank. And as you are the groups single healer you naturally focus your heals and reactives on the Guardian. So when the mob switches you only notice the monk is hit when he is already half dead, giving you very little time at all to react before he is completely dead. And due to the leather avoidance thing they have going, the hits that land on them lands for massive amounts of damage. Especially when they are many level below the mobs you are fighting. So what I did was just let them die and suggest they might want to change their buffs so they dont draw agro away from the tank.

But your are on the right track, keep your power saved for doing heals in groups . Let the others "dps" and keep your single reactive up on the plate tank. We are a bit "short" in the power department until we get the Inquest buff line with the power proc.

Mezelline

You should've let the mentored warlock tank. The monk would not have stolen aggro, and chances are the warlock had more mit and hp than the guard anyway. Especially if he had a couple pieces of equip that procs wards and such.

But yeah, if you want to heal groups you might want to look into getting both your single target and group reactives at adept 3. All the other heals really don't matter and can be app4-ed. It is almost always better to stick with lesser-teir spells if they are of higher quality. A T2 ad3 spell is roughly equivilent to a T3 ad1 spell in terms of heal amounts, but the T2 spell has a much lower mana cost which makes it better.

Brawlers can be a pain because they have incredibly high single-target burst dps and taunts, which is a bad combo for stupid players. Too many brawlers try to one-up the tank for aggro, and if they peel aggro rather than accepting responsibility for endangering the groups survival, they will claim "the tank isn't doing their job". I've seen some dps classes pull this stunt as well, but I've seen it more from brawlers than anything else.

As an inquisitor, you are literally the worst healer for a brawler tank there is. Reactives need high mitigation tanks, which brawlers do not have, and avoidance tanking needs wards/stoneskin, which inquisitors do not have.

In general, if dps gets aggro, don't bother healing them beyond what you normally do for group heals, unless its a special situation. (Like where a tank drops, or when you are in two-healer groups)

If the tank dies, its the healer's fault.
If the healer dies, its the tank's fault.
If the dps dies, its their own damn fault.

__________________
Mezelast - Najena's first 80 Warlock
Mezelardo - 80 Paladin
Mezelina - 80 Berserker - Retired due to SOE hate
Mezelline - 70 Defiler - Retired due to SOE love
I AE IN '08

SacDaddy

ya'll might think I'm crazy, but I always do whatever it takes to make sure - no one - dies when I am healin. I will switch to overzealous DPS classes and toss them spot heals. IMO , when anyone dies, it's my fault

Canul

Being nice is fine, up to a point. If those who are stealing aggro never learn anything, then they will get to the high -end of the game and be on every other player's *cough* shit-list.

It also means that you will be less able to single-heal some content - not you personally - just in general.
... nevermind what a Raid Leader might do to them... hehe...

Canul
Renegades AB

Catseyes

1) if you heal another tank than plate you 'll have issues ( pike damages > reactives )
2) if your tank is crappy geared you'll have issues ( mob dmg > mitig ,see point 1. )
3)if your tank is way under the level of mobs ,you'll have issues (mob dmg > mitig , see point 1.)
2 +3 ) you re in big trouble and will need a second healer or a miracle or to be way way higher than the group.

1+2+3 ) pray ...

__________________
Shadeyes, 80 fae assassin
Fable , Splitpaw
Ymrir, 80 barb inquie ,Lunar Dawn, Befallen

Grim

I dunno man I'm in the high end,and imho sac has it right Just because a dps is ripping doesn't mean he don't deserve heals,your the type of healer I would never invite.