Comments on: Logic vs Intuition?

By: Kayla

Kayla — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:20:24 +0000

You _have_ to “wing it” when you’re healing. You have to be able to adapt to everything on the fly and not rely on a preset rotation. As a healer, everything you do is dictated by what the rest of the party are doing. Making split second decisions like allowing DPS-A to die because if you heal them then the MT dies is part and parcel of the job.

I prefer healing. My main is a holy paladin (but I am pushing my priest up, she’s 64 right now) and I have a lot more fun playing her than I do playing my DK tank or my mage/hunter DPS. The tank is probably closest in style of play – in that you have to be able to adapt every second, you can’t just hit the same buttons over and over – and you have to be completely aware of what is happening around you even when all you can see is the bad guy’s crotch.

By: Andy C.

Andy C. — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:29:03 +0000

I agree with what BlueTiger wrote. DPS’ing is easy to do “by the numbers”. You have a set time on how long each spell/ability will take to cool down, how long the GCD is for your particular character. The randomness of when AOE effects goes off is really the only thing you have to worry about (in general).

For healing, you have to worry about all of that, plus another REAL person’s abilities in hitting all of their buttons in the right order to try and help you keep them alive. It’s a much more fluid area of the game. Logically knowing which spell will fill up their health bars the fastest, vs. the most cost effective is necessary, to an extent, but if you just “know” that hitting one with the combination of another works better for how you’re geared/outfitted/ui setup, then what more do you need. Your job is to try and keep people in the raid standing up. If you’re good at your job, then it doesn’t really matter how you do it, just that you’re doing it, and hopefully (as it is a game) enjoying it.

By: logtar

logtar — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:35:46 +0000

I tank with my gut, and have enjoyed figuring out ways of doing things just with my own group. Every guide out there is great, but until you have your own raid composition with skills and classes you have to adjust and go with your gut.

By: BlueTiger

BlueTiger — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:34:57 +0000

When I DPS (Priest myself) I go by the numbers, I time my spells so I always cast MindBlast when it’s off cooldown, I always keep dots up and time the re-applies to wevae in with the spell rotation. I have spent time with dummies to check the order to apply the dots and such.

When I heal, I wing it. Cause you never know what’s gonne happen. Sure, you can read up on the fight and such, but how to know that the tank will dodge? or that the hunters first three arrows will crit? So, besides casting PoM on the tank before the pull (that’s my read-to-go sign) – I do like you, I wing it.

By: qyja

qyja — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:33:03 +0000

Two points: One, as a healer I think I’m lacking on both the control AND intuition on healing. I’m sometimes overwhelmed by how far I still need to go to be good.

Two, I LOVED that series and was delighted to see someone reference it.

By: Xlade

Xlade — Sun, 03 May 2009 08:12:58 +0000

Not wrong. Good to need a system, but intuition combined with logic is the best combination in my opinion.