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[Malal]

For what it is worth I'll throw my 2 cents about the changes.

Yesterday I did the HM flashpoint and the first and second normal bosses in the ops. The ops was very easy to heal but it was normal. We just wanna learn the fights and get some comms in the process. I had no issues with the op healing. I really like the strategy of keeping trance up on the boss and becoming a melee healer. Keeps big hot on tank and melee and allows you to consume like normal. I must agree our emergency healing is horrible now. HM Lost Island was extremely hard. Our group was 3/4 Full rakata and the 4th dps was offspeccing in columi. Keeping the tank up in that place was very difficult. We didn't even get last boss down

The two things I am working on to outweigh the nerfs are:

1) Aoe boss and melee heal as stated above

2) When tank is 90+ percent and things are calm, start casting Deliv on the tank. By the time the cast bar is up he will either not be at 90 percent or you just step forward and cancel.


Also I want some input about stats now. I am currently sitting about here with stim and personal buff (some arent exact cause server is down and memory escapes me):

Willpower - 1865
Power - 602
Crit - 180ish
Surge - 190ish
Alacrity - 339


I have enjoyed heavy alacrity but right now deliverance is not an emergency heal, and the bit shaved off with alacrity is not amazing. Mainly now life is Bubble ==> Trance ==> AOE and consume with deliv thrown in as a filler. With the majority of our heals being trance and aoe, is alacrity worth it anymore? Im debating swapping all my alacrity enhancements for surge/power ones. I know Petrus is normally a fan of no alacrity but I am still kind of worried about changing things up.


Also another question:

I feel like a noob asking this but our emergency healing just feels that awful. Is anyone using our flash heal with the crit buff? Our bubble is pretty much part of our rotation so it isn't really useful for emergencies reliably. Trance is good but not really the emergency I always need unless I am popping CDs. Do we rely on our other healer to get the job done? And what if we don't have that luxury (4 man or a split boss in new ops)?