Sorcerer / Sage Healing Compendium (Updated for 1.2!)

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(04-18-2012 11:43 PM)Petrus Wrote:  As I've said several times - you really need to be using consumption every time force surge procs, just as in pre-1.2. It's certainly possible to put 0/2 in dark resilience, and while I think that's preferable it's up to you and your raid/play style. But whether you're 0/2 or 2/2 you should have no difference in the amount of force you have.

So basically, what I'm saying, is that putting two points from dark mending to dark resilience doesn't make you have higher force. If you DO have higher force, it's because you weren't tapping as often with 0/2 as you were with 2/2. I suppose you could certainly make an argument where you said that taking less damage means you're capable of tapping more, giving you more force. I'd counter that and say that even with 0/2 I hit every tap, but I would understand where you're coming from. Either way - what it comes down to is that 1. you need to use a consumption on every force surge, no matter what your spec is, and 2. Short of not taking force surge/force bending - there's nothing in our tree that should really effect our force management in any significant way.

Function: Thanks - we did better last week though... long day I guess . But yeah, with 0/2 in Resilience I never died (before a tank/wipe) and the only fight I had force issues on was minesweeper, but that was because several mistakes throughout the coarse of the fight. Even on that fight though I didn't ever have to stop casting because of my force, I just dropped pretty far below 50%. I think I ended every other fight with between 60 - 80% force though.

Hi there. I'd just like to point out that if you are ending fights with 60%-80% of your force remaining you are either on content that's too easy or not healing to your best potential. Having any extra force at the end of a fight means you didn't use all your resources. Thus, you could have done more healing if you had used all or, more practically, most of your force. Ideally you want to end fights with a low amount of force: say, 10-20%, maybe less if its a really hard fight. As you learn a fight you should be getting a feel for how far you need to stretch your force. There's no need to maximize force regen, total healing is the only important thing.

That said, if healing output is not your limiting factor in downing bosses, changing your ability selection to not waste force probably won't do much for you. However, it often is helpful to do more healing when you're initially learning a boss than you're supposed to need to down the boss. Just seeing more of the encounter per attempt helps learn it faster. So, while you're on progression, not making use of every Force Surge proc is actually a good strategy.