Healing assignments?

[Frost666 0]

Hey!

 

I just wondered if you experienced raiders doing healing assignments on your encounters.

 

Are you assign a healer to tanks and other healers are healing different groups of the raid? Or are your healers healing everyone on demand?

 

Any information is appreciated.

 

Thank you!

 

Cheers,

Frost

[Pandacho 282]

Well, I'm not sure if it's a general raiders work. 

Normally it's more of a RL or healing coordinator work, I would say.

 

I can tell you what I personally is doing as a healing coordinator of our raid team.

 

Normally before we start progressing on a new boss, I'm going with my RL through the tactic and decide whether it needs special attention and changes in'standard' healing.

 

The assignments are more for boss mechanics rather than for groups or tanks.

 

There are fights where I write in advance assignments for raid CD chaining or target healing duty.

Sometimes I ask guys to change a talent or glyph for a specific encounter.

It might happen that I’ll call  for a raid CD if something goes terribly wrong even if it wasn't in assignments.

 

Well, if you need some example, that's what I wrote before HC Mar'goc (I will delete our raiders names and put their classes instead). We are using gather and AOE all the small adds tactic here:

Shadow Priest:
- Glyph of Vampiric Embrace
- DPS boss with Vampiric Embraceduring small add killing
 

Rogues:
Smoke bomb on small adds AoE starting from RL saying “AoE adds”
Rogue 1 -> Rogue 2

Disc Priest:
- 100% shields up on tanks and hunters that handle Branded
- double shields for tank with mark of chaos from phase 3
- double shields for hunters from phase 3
- shielding the raid with Power Infusion before Force Novas
- PW: Barrier when RL says “AoE adds”

Holy Paladin:
- Devo Aura on Force Novas
- healing with Avenger Wrath on triple Force Nova
- Hand of Sacrifice on warrior-tank with Mark of Chaos from phase 3

Resto Shaman:
- CDs on first transition phase
- CDs on triple Force Nova (8 sec between casts)
- Spirit Link totem on small adds AoE together with Tranq

Resto Druids:
- sort by yourself who will cast first Tranq and first Stampeding Roar
- swap Lifebloom between hunters with Branded
- cast Stampeding Roar on the knocking back Force Novas. On the Triple Nova sort the cast order between yourself and feral druid. The pause between casts is 8 sec - enough to use a Roar for every Nova.
We have the first small adds wave between 4th and 5th minute and the second wave between 9th and 10th.
- use Tranq as a mana saving ability at first minute, so it will be back around 4:20. One of you will cast first Tranq when the raid will be low from killing accidental adds.
On this graph you can see what I mean - time from 8:10 until 8:50: (here was the graph)

The second Tranq should be casted about 5 sec after RL says “AoE adds”.

Same for the second wave of small adds.

For all healers:
- Immediate DISPELS of Slow debuff.
- try to come with 80%+ of mana to the 7th minute of fight.
- Do not drink channeling pot before 6th min. Announce in Vent when you are drinking.

 

It can be less complicated too, for example on Brackenspore I'll ask Holy Paladin to spec into Hand of Purity and prioritize tanks, resto shaman to heal the mushrooms, resto druid to stay on raid and pay attention to blue mushroom while we are not using it. On Infesting Spores cast all the healers will turn around and heal the green mushroom.

 

Or, it can be just 'standard' heal what you think is right like on Kargath. 

 

Hope it helps

If you'll have further questions, you are welcome to ask.

Edited January 24, 2015 by Pandacho

[Krazyito 516]

I've posted about this here if you wish to read my thoughts: http://www.icy-veins.com/forums/topic/473-druid-heals/#entry4633

Also here are mine and others thoughts: http://www.icy-veins.com/forums/topic/2167-how-to-handle-healing-assignments/

It's a little bit dated, but it's roughly the same.