Of course knowing how to listen to ACT for AEs and knowing how to look at debuffs so you can pre cast heals/cures for times when they'll land as needed will always trump just spamming.
But the sad thing is.
Most people are too shit to even listen and watch to see their cues to cast. Hence. Most you fuckers need to just spam.
And ridgerbay, try reading what was said here and stuff that is on the front page of this forum board. Everything you said would have been answered and dismissed if you had.
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Precasting cures. Go into options, particle effects, put the particle quality on something other than low, the min and max distance to the max, and the max particle size to 0, and the number per character to 1 (you may also want to increase your shader distance for some mobs under performance). This lets you see casting animations. Learn casting animations that mobs do and start to time cures to hit right after the animation finishes. It makes life easy.
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I have a different, not necessarily better, way I do this. If you set the number of effects per character to one or greater and use the command, "/r_particle_priority -1" you will see casting animations with zero particle effects. When I say zero, I mean zero. No effects from you, no effects from mobs, no effects from zone light sources, no druid portals, no showering lava rocks in VP, nothing.
Anyhow, you'll see the casting animations cleanly without flashy clutter.
While it might be true that just brainlessly (that's no charge against Iheals btw) casting heals non-stop is the best way to heal your group because of procs, I refuse to do that, not only because it insults my intelligence, but also because I prefer spot-healing and cross-curing as long as my reactives are on my group+tank. The only instanced mobs where I have to cast heals non-stop (at least for a while) are Gynok,Ykesha (only getting started on him atm), and the 2 trash "traps" in palace.
This is correct. Do this.
I am shocked at how many Clerics don't use their group reactives enough. Your reactives should be up at ALL times.
Disclaimer: This applies to all healing classes, not just Templars. You should be casting your heals regardless and not waiting for shit to happen before doing it.
Yes, good post, the saddest part, however, is priests who refuse to cure nox, arcane, etc....
I've noticed this in many guilds. I would say that about 90% of healers I have grouped with or raided with suck complete ass at curing ailments. They just expect you to cure pot everything, even when you are stifled, stunned, mezzed.
It's so easy to click a button.
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Yes, good post, the saddest part, however, is priests who refuse to cure nox, arcane, etc....
I've noticed this in many guilds. I would say that about 90% of healers I have grouped with or raided with suck complete ass at curing ailments. They just expect you to cure pot everything, even when you are stifled, stunned, mezzed.
I have a different, not necessarily better, way I do this. If you set the number of effects per character to one or greater and use the command, "/r_particle_priority -1" you will see casting animations with zero particle effects. When I say zero, I mean zero. No effects from you, no effects from mobs, no effects from zone light sources, no druid portals, no showering lava rocks in VP, nothing.
Anyhow, you'll see the casting animations cleanly without flashy clutter.
There is so much truth in this one statement I'd make a religion out of it. I'm tired of playing on my Tank and having a Cleric healing in the group and not seeing Vital Intercession on my Spell Effects window for at least twenty seconds.
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Yes, good post, the saddest part, however, is priests who refuse to cure nox, arcane, etc....
I've noticed this in many guilds. I would say that about 90% of healers I have grouped with or raided with suck complete ass at curing ailments. They just expect you to cure pot everything, even when you are stifled, stunned, mezzed.
It's so easy to click a button.
I myself am OCD with cures, so I pretty much give myself a stroke in zones like Outer Stronghold where there's THOUSANDS of detrimentals to cure, and then I almost freak out on Lunchmeat and Zraxth when there's detrimentals that I'm not allowed to cure.
I myself am OCD with cures, so I pretty much give myself a stroke in zones like Outer Stronghold where there's THOUSANDS of detrimentals to cure, and then I almost freak out on Lunchmeat and Zraxth when there's detrimentals that I'm not allowed to cure.
This made me laugh cause I'm the same way. The hardest part of healing that zone was remembering NOT to cure. It's like a twitch that can't be stopped...
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