WTB Emergency monitor ban

[sitha]

Originally posted by Gorion@Mar 31 2006, 03:42 PM
and that overheal is a good thing,, that is the whole reason of that monitor. cos its an emergency!

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Actually, it doesn't have to be an emergency. The top person on that monitor is just as often on 70% health with his main healer just waiting for the right time to throw in a big heal.

Calling it emergency monitor is imo very misleading.

[Gorion]

Originally posted by Voretex@Mar 31 2006, 02:43 PM
Overheal on everyone but the MT = bad

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maybe you forget that everyone is needed.. sure the mt's are needed more, but if we get into that argument so are the priests and those who heal priests.. and then we still need the dps other classes do..cos even with all the healers and tanks up and the rest dead.. its a wipe

and regarding, sitha's post:

well then, reduce the hp to 50% then.. if its possible..

[Voretex]

Do a quick google for healing rotations, me and Sitha didn't just make this up, the majority of high instance raiding guilds use them.

[lunares]

You are talking about focussing on your own grp in some of the previous posts.
i do that for myself for a long time and only when my own group is safe (read on a good health lvl) i look at other groups mostly grp 7 and 8 cause they dont have a healer.  (Keep in mind that i am mostly in 1 of the MT groups so the MT need a lot of healing). Also i try to use as little mods as possible cause if you get a mod for everything i think you are just a bot wacking a button and the mod does the rest ( i dont say they are not usefull, but i want to play and become better, not become a bot). But i agree we can use some order in healing groups. Overheal can be good however if its a long fight overheal is a killer.

Lunares

[Odesa]

Personally I dont use emergency monitor. I heal in order of priority (MT first, but mostly it's depending on the situation) and then have the raid sorted in class (when 40 ppl) or in groups (when 20 ppl or less).
I usually don't heal much in the beginning of a fight; I save my mana for later when most of the other healers have run low on mana due to massive overhealing.

My oppinion: When using the emergency monitor the healer don't have the time to consider wether the target is having aggro and therefore is in dire need of healing, or if it's someone who just had a 2 sec aggro and won't take on anymore damage.

I would rather have 10 mages with 50% hp than no mana when the MT needs it, but then again it depends on the situation, and sometimes the mages are more important than then MT and then they will recieve my healing (and shielding

But that's just my oppinion  

[Gorion]

umm.. more important than the mt?

[Odesa]

yes... not that it happens often, but situations like that can occur. It was meant as an example tho; not a good one I guess.

[Torir]

If the mob goes down, I don't really care what the overall raid healing/overhealing was like

[Voretex]

Dont lie torir

stop spamming my /t with "post over heal pls"

[Neff]

Hey, just do things like you use too do! I always get heals when i need them, and you healers "knowing" when i Life tap fits me perfect:) So just keep up the good work! a special thanks from me ^^

[Vargen]

I usually have my emergency monitor set to only show Warriors and sometimes Rogues.
Other then that I just do a quick overviev of which groups are close to me, and try to rotate through them with HoT spells.

If all the healers use emergency monitor for everything, the amount of overhealing will be massive and the person not on that list as he takes damage, will probably not be healed as all the healers are healing the same person. I don't think the mod should be banned though, I think healers should reevaluate the way it is used. It was missused like this pre patch too, but now that manaconserve is out, it will be even worse.

[Torir]

Originally posted by Voretex@Apr 1 2006, 12:54 AM
Dont lie torir

stop spamming my /t with "post over heal pls"

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I said I don't care what the OVERALL healing was like, ofc I care about my overhealing

[ShadowElf]

the "emergency monitor" is killing ppl if you dont use it correctly, like vargen said: many healers heals one target at the same time and in that time some other can die...

poor them I say =/

so look at the raid group windows you get from CTraid and heal those who need from there, since its less chance you heal the same person

you can also set some priority classes on the emergency monitor to have a better overview

I also press the mob we are attacking and assist it so I can see if its attacking a squeaky tank or some other tiny gnome who needs healing:P

   -Meguru-