I drew a lot of conclusions from that raid, and I need to do a couple more before I write up some advice on how to kill magmaw (there are a couple of very straight forward things you need to do to win) but also, on holy paladin healing. There were two of us in the raid - and we are both very competent pally healers, with VERY different styles. Looking at the recount summaries made me guffaw in amusement. The other holy pally was using Divine Light as her go to spell, and pumping out the HPS. She probably has a good 8-10 gear points on me. Me? Well, I was using every trick in the book to squeeze as much as I could out of what I had! I used literally everything, except Light of Dawn, which I am not a fan of as a spell.
Today, I am hoping to go through the parses and see how much mana I generated compared to the other holy pally, and see if that is where I was lacking. I strongly suspect it is. I was experimenting with flasks and food, and I was trying the int flasks - I suspect until my gear picks up, I might need the spirit flask.
Here's a screen shot of the kill attempt and my spell usage (Yes I know they don't fit on my actual blog, just click them and they will take you to a page with just the image. RSS feed readers... you will have no idea what I am talking about!)
As you can see, I was very evenly using every trick at my disposal. I was keeping shock on CD as much as I could (which, honestly, probably wasn't enough). Here is the other holy pally:
Then the money shot - why I need to up my spirit:
Remember that list I put up a couple of weeks a go with the self gearing information? Yeah, well I'm still wearing that list. It's not the best list, but as you can see above, it is really just about raid ready, or at least very close to it. I am near to replacing my crafted helm with the JP badge helm and that might make a bit of difference for monday, we will see! Unfortunately, I don't have another holy pally to compare myself to in that raid.
But, I think I acquitted myself quite well, I kept pace on the whole, considering my gear level. I didn't die too much, I didn't stand in the fire, and on the whole, the tanks didn't get omnomnomed to death.
Monday will be another raid instance, so we will see how that goes! I will chat to our kiters of adds for magmaw and see if I can get a good understanding of how they controlled the adds successfully (as toward the end of the night, they really had those adds under control) Then I will write up a NERD guide to 10man magmaw.
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Adgamorix · 736 weeks ago
Were you just using the 2 Pally healers? What were the assignments?
One area that I can already see is that your partner judged 23 times to your 14 times. That's about 35,000 more mana that they got back that you didn't. They also used LoH, for another 10% return.
Grats on your first kill though! Good luck on OMNOMNOMnitron. If you need any Healadin tips - I'll be happy to assist.
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brangwen 48p · 736 weeks ago
LoH was used at the end, and while I should have done that (in fact was frantically TRYING to do that) I was generally being "Gah, it's the end of the fight, its 1130pm and I'm hitting my res button wondering why LOH is not working".
No jokes, I was a bit crap I didn't realise till after the fight I was mashing the wrong button! (but I was kind of hoping people wouldn't ask me so I didn't have to admit my shame ) So at the end I was Ooom AND mashing the wrong button. In short, Faily McFailPants right here!
We didn't specifically have assignments (something I need to talk to my fellow healers about) as the guild has been raiding together for years, and they are able to self assign. I am still finding my way. So, I effectively was backup tank healing and raid healing as I had noticed early on that my fellow pally was clearly mashing LD on the tanks already. But looking at healing by actor and spell, it seems that my bacon did more healing to the tanks than the other pally did, so I am not quite sure how that all worked yet. More analysis required :)
I'm wary of posting the actual links to flogs in terms of protecting the guilty ;)
What I would really like to see in flogs is a "mana return" graph - and all the ways you get mana back (as opposed to just "power gains"). I was standing in melee, and I think I had more than a few auto hits land on the boss when the auto swing and a quick break in my casting coincided, but I cant find where that would be in flogs. I suspect I got a fair bit back that way passively, but I cant be sure. Im going to have to filter the parse and look for melee hits.
Adgamorix · 736 weeks ago
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brangwen 48p · 735 weeks ago
Might have to go poking around other log parsers and see what gives.
claisa · 736 weeks ago
Plus during magmaw, divine plea when he is chained down and melee him / The majority of the time during him being chained down no one is taking dam. This will replace most of your mana bar every time.
Go go Seal of light pwoar
brangwen 48p · 735 weeks ago
I am sure your comment is helpful, if I understood it! What do you mean by chimeron? I was using flash as my partner was doing the hard hards with DL. So I was topping up quickly to allow her longer big heals to land with time to spare :)
Yeah, I was certainly doing that whole hit shit while he's tied to a spike thing :) that was made of win! I have another go at it tonight. Going to see if I can improve my performance on last week!
claisa · 735 weeks ago
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