3 medals for 524k healing ~~ nice medal system BW

Uh, I played an rsham in WoW and was very much an offensive healer there as well.

That's a fair point, but as an Op, it's how I get my Tactical Advantage procs. If I put my HoTs up ahead of time, I get the procs ready and I have a couple TA stacks ready to go for when **** hits the fan and I need to start throwing out Surgical Probes.

IMO, if someone is in need of a heal, you've waited too long to give them a HoT. HoTs are proactive (you shouldn't cast it blindly though, use it on people you know will be taking damage - good healers will have a sense for this), direct heals are reactive.

Refer to my list of situations when offense is acceptable - when nobody is in danger of dying. I'm not saying I don't do damage as a healer, I'm just saying it's not my role, and I'm not going to let people die just so I can chase medals.

Clickers aren't a good match for any style of play.

It is easier as a dps to get medals, and even more so as a tank, but throw some slows, or instant dots around between heals. low cost stuff and anything that helps control the enemy is good. Slower the enemy moves the easier people find them to focus em. This also gets you on the kill list, maybe a killing blow. Don't wander too far from nodes in Alderon, thats another 2 medals in defender points, and as a healer you should be close enough to nodes to pick those up anyway, they have a bit of range counting defender points. Healers do need about 2 more medals to go for under healing category though to even things up a bit, especially with what tanks can get.

As a sorc, I get Force Bending procs from my HoTs. If I'm on the ball, if someone starts taking damage, once I bubble/HoT/cast, they're back at full. For my class (and IMHO), casting HoTs just for the procs in case something happens is a waste.



IMO, someone's in need of a heal once they start taking damage (bubble breaks, etc). Overhealing isn't effective and is a waste of your force pool. If someone's health drops to 60%, it doesn't mean that the chance of their demise is insurmountable.


Agreed. All I'm saying is that if you do some damage, then chances are you'll be able to get those medals that I've seen far too many people QQing about than if you simply rely on your healing in WZs.



ILU

Wish this was the case. I can triple the next highest healing, do respectable (100k+) damage and top objective points and not get a single vote, multiple matches in a row.

Sort by damage, notice top damage by tiny margin has 6 votes, sigh softly to self.

In some ways, this is the difference between a 600 point force pool and a rapidly regenerating 100 energy pool. It's far more efficient for me to space out my casts, rather than spamming my abilities back to back to back once somebody is taking damage. In the latter case, I'll place myself in the <60 energy bracket, which is not where I want to be.


Sure. But it's a multitasking issue that pure DPS (and arguably tanks) don't have to deal with.

Yeah we definitely don't multi-task as healers...

Yes i am heal speced and yes i have good crit.I just told you i am in full champ gear lol.

Actually, there are 6 for damage, 7 if you include the one awarded for slaying 25 enemies

they kill ones are not just dps cause all you need to do is 1 point of damage to them to get it