My guild will hopefully make our first pulls on H. Tortos (25) this evening or early next week. I have some concerns, this is supposed to be a monk friendly fight and I want to make sure I shine. I still need 9 upgrades from normal modes, but that hasn't stopped me keeping up with everyone but our Holy Paladin. Everyone else has full normal mode BIS or is missing 1-2 pieces. Yes I know my second trinket is poop, but it was that or LFR unupgraded suns as my alternative. You work with what you are given and these were the hand-me-downs that the others didn't need.
Healing Comp:
Holy Paladin
Disc Priest
Holy Priest
Restoration Shaman
MW Monkx2
(Shadow who goes disc when we need him)
Background:
Our other monk brought up a concern with our GM last night. Renewing Mist(ReM) bouncing is not random. It targets the nearest injured party within 20 yards, more if glyphed. This means that if Callipygean and I are standing in the same place and start our ReMs on the same people we should always have duplicate hots. Uplift, our primary AOE only works on people with ReM active. I am pretty good at timing my TFT now so I have maximum coverage the second the shields break. I am prepped for the damage so uplifts and revivals go out the split second they can. As I have improved, his share of the total healing pot has reduced. No matter what we do, there is no changing the fact that some of our ReMs are going to be on the same people so the person who gets the heal is the one with the quicker fingers.
Issue:
This brings me to the meat of my question. What can we do for H. Tortos so that we step on each others toes less but still take our proper positions of 1 and 2 on this fight? Would one of us unglyphing ReM be a substantial benefit? Have one person choose Xuen and one person choose Chi Torpedo? Make sure we are opposing sides of the boss so we at least have range on different people? Finding the ultimate effective use for Healing Spheres? I want this to be more about each of us healing our best and less about how much I am eating away at the other healers potential for healing. I am a second monk, not a HPS parasite. ;)
Healing Comp:
Holy Paladin
Disc Priest
Holy Priest
Restoration Shaman
MW Monkx2
(Shadow who goes disc when we need him)
Background:
Our other monk brought up a concern with our GM last night. Renewing Mist(ReM) bouncing is not random. It targets the nearest injured party within 20 yards, more if glyphed. This means that if Callipygean and I are standing in the same place and start our ReMs on the same people we should always have duplicate hots. Uplift, our primary AOE only works on people with ReM active. I am pretty good at timing my TFT now so I have maximum coverage the second the shields break. I am prepped for the damage so uplifts and revivals go out the split second they can. As I have improved, his share of the total healing pot has reduced. No matter what we do, there is no changing the fact that some of our ReMs are going to be on the same people so the person who gets the heal is the one with the quicker fingers.
Issue:
This brings me to the meat of my question. What can we do for H. Tortos so that we step on each others toes less but still take our proper positions of 1 and 2 on this fight? Would one of us unglyphing ReM be a substantial benefit? Have one person choose Xuen and one person choose Chi Torpedo? Make sure we are opposing sides of the boss so we at least have range on different people? Finding the ultimate effective use for Healing Spheres? I want this to be more about each of us healing our best and less about how much I am eating away at the other healers potential for healing. I am a second monk, not a HPS parasite. ;)