So I decided that, since I plan to focus on this PVE thing in the expansion until Blizz removes its collective head from its collective ass, I ought to start doing instances so that I could get in the experience. I tried on Ideale a few times yesterday and got nothing (thanks, huntards), so I decided to try on Ahami — people are always harassing me to heal. Got into three groups, one with alts from a top guild and me, and ran Ramps twice and Blood Furnace once.
Holy moly, healing five-man instances is SO EASY. Compared to PVP, it was actually boring. The boss fights were fun and challenging, but the rest? Blah.
I did lose the ele shaman twice in the Blood Furnace run, but considering that I got feared and I was a little low for it (dinged 61 in the instance), I think I did okay. Tank hit half health once.
Seriously, though, if you've never healed an instance before, go heal Arathi Basin or something a few times and it'll be cake.
I hope raid healing is more exciting. :-/
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You might be right there. None of my healers are above 30ish but I have also found instance healing to be fairly undemanding vs the few pvp battles I've tried.
It's not so much that it's less demanding — I went through mana much more quickly, and the aggro management was interesting — as that it's so much slower and there are far fewer targets to heal.
When I'm in Alterac Valley (oh, how I love this battleground as a healer), I'm popping chain heals like it's going out of style, and switching my targets all the time, and I have to make judgements about who to heal and who can wait — who's doing the most damage and has the best chance of taking out the enemy fast? Who is already getting heals? It's a huge multitasking challenge with so many factors to take into account.
In five-mans, I don't have to think about it. Just heal the tank, and toss chain heals on the DPS if the tank's topped off. And that's it. Sometimes the tank is taking a bunch of damage and the DPS is standing in an AOE or something and it gets dicey, but there's really not too much to think about. And there were long stretches on trash in both instances where the Earth Shield was doing all the healing and I was basically watching. (At one point in BF I cracked up because the pally tank started pulling 3-5 at once and was like, "Haha, I'm going to make you actually heal!")
It takes the same amount of mana and button punching, but WAY less thought and reaction time, I guess is what I'm getting at.
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