Feb. 9, 2012 at 10:16pm with 29 notes
Reblogged from dwac
reption: chelesa: I demand confirmation. Mechanically, healing is equal parts timing, anticipation, and spell selection. Philosophically, Healing is about good, quick judgements with a little bit of planning. I agree with the gist of this, but I’m kind of hesitant to describe the role as uniquely ‘artistic’ or ‘rhythmic’. Every class ‘flows’ if you’re being challenged and meeting that challenge - I feel like this is often ascribed to healing because the decisions you have to make are often more situational and less ‘objective’ than other roles. If the “rotation,” as it were, was actually very rhythmic, it probably assumes that every encounter was going about 100% optimally, because then you would assume a specific rhythm to follow for each one. (Admittedly this is a bit simplistic, but I don’t think it’s too far removed from the truth.)

reption:

chelesa:

I demand confirmation.

Mechanically, healing is equal parts timing, anticipation, and spell selection. Philosophically, Healing is about good, quick judgements with a little bit of planning. I agree with the gist of this, but I’m kind of hesitant to describe the role as uniquely ‘artistic’ or ‘rhythmic’. Every class ‘flows’ if you’re being challenged and meeting that challenge - I feel like this is often ascribed to healing because the decisions you have to make are often more situational and less ‘objective’ than other roles.

If the “rotation,” as it were, was actually very rhythmic, it probably assumes that every encounter was going about 100% optimally, because then you would assume a specific rhythm to follow for each one.

(Admittedly this is a bit simplistic, but I don’t think it’s too far removed from the truth.)

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    ^^^^^^^^^^^^ this
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    YES! i love all my healers & i have a certain flow for each of them.
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    This is how resto druid healing feels to me. Somehow it clicks and just makes sense. The ‘healing music’, however, would...
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    yes this is good
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    This is really fucking awesome.
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    If the “rotation,” as it were, was actually very rhythmic, it probably assumes that every encounter was going about 100%...
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    Used to be about dancing and all HoTs all the time. It also was at one point the Priest party with slight help from some...
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    Mechanically, healing is equal parts timing, anticipation, and spell selection. Philosophically, Healing is about good,...
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