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OscarDivine
I loathe how people love the spell inspiration. Sound odd, eh? I've looked around the forums and can't really find too much info on this "wonderful spell" but people in game say it's a must have.
But really, it's that great? I see the other priest talents and really can't find anything that's too much better. I do agree that inspiration is good for holy tank healing and disc healing but for raid healing? Really, it's that good?
So, lemme have it... how "good" is inspiration for raid healing? If I spec into inspiriation will no raid member ever die? Will I become the top healer in the raid? Will I finally be able to find mankrik's wife? The world may never know >.<
Srsly, I have no idea and would appreciate being swayed to join the "ZOMGI<3INSPIRATION" club :)
Well, I would hardly call inspiration our best talent, but sure I'll play this game.
Inspiration is a good talent for tank healing specs for obvious reasons. For RAID healing, however, it's actually fairly useless because any physical damage that happens to any player that isn't the MT or OT's during a raid usually entails a boss or an add which will usually hit either VERY HARD or not particularly hard at all, which means there's already a serious problem or one that isn't particularly bad. Either way, Inspiration isn't doing much for your non-tank raid members.
BUT, as a raid healer, your heals are hitting all players, INCLUDING the tanks. The idea is that our splash-over healing that happens to the tanks can activate this talent and make it useful. Re: that mage sitting in the back chewing his fingernails and flinging fireballs... It does nothing for him.
For you to end up healing the raid and NOT land heals on your tanks would actually be difficult to accomplish even if you were TRYING not to hit the tanks. It happens, and yes, it helps. Shamen also have a
similar spell
.
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mojojojo101
When holy i mainly roll with 2 healers in the majority of content. I do toss heals on the tank if he needs it coz hey why not?. If you dont have inspiration that would be 10% extra dmage on tank that could be easily avoided. Also can help slightly with unavoidable WW affects on melee if PoH crits on melee grp
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Post by
Synectics
For raid healing in Battlegrounds, Inspiration is OP.
Because Blizzard's vision of PvP in WotLK makes melee dps transcendant and unbalanced in every way possible, having a talent that mitigates 10% of the most prevalent and most deadly form of damage in the Battlegrounds is very much worth taking.
I wish that Inspiration would proc with Empowered Renew ... but that it procs off Holy Nova and Circle of Healing gives the talent plenty of exercize in many battlegrounds.
^ this. 10% damage reduction, of any type, is nothing to shrug at.
As for the raid healing in PvE? It's questionable, but I'd counter with the question I ask myself whenever I'm torn on talents --
If you don't get Inspiration, what would you get? If you got ___ instead, will it be more useful than Inspiration?
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MegaVolt
Since it is only physical damage and most AoE damage is non-physical it isn't the best for raid healing. However, if you ever heal the tank or if any of your AoE abilities heal the tank its worth it.
(taken this quote randomly since several people said basically the same thing)
I don't see the point in this. You already have tank healers. Those tank healers will have their own Inspiration or similar talent and they will keep it active on the tank at all times. This doesn't stack with yours. So it is really completely useless for the random tank heal.
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OscarDivine
Unless you know that either a shaman healer will be tank healing (why?) or that you will ALWAYS have a disco priest healing your tanks (oh, and BOTH or ALL THREE of them), I don't think it's a fair assumption to make that your other healers will have it covered.
I still argue that Inspiration is a worth while talent for the hits that you get on your tanks. UNLESS you will have a disco priest or resto shaman healing EVERY ONE OF YOUR TANKS, you won't have up-time on your Inspiration/Ancestral Fort.
To my knowledge, Druids and Paladins do not have any spell or buff that is equivalent, interchangeable, or exclusive with Inspiration and Ancestral Fort.
Inspiration is a big utility buff for your tanks, and if you don't agree, then you probably have never played a tanking class. Protecting the tanks is the job of every healer, not just your dedicated tank healers.
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karlusdavius
Protecting the tanks is the job of every healer, not just your dedicated tank healers.
Agreed.
I mean, a raid healer is supposed to keep the raid up. Tanks are part of the raid, so you can help out the Tank healers too :)
I usually pop my PoM to my focus target as holy, as i always know it will ping off him
BTW, i love your sig!
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OscarDivine
So I think a lot in terms of analogies and after contemplating this inspiration talent debate, I thought of a semi-accurate analogy.
If Disco Priests/Resto Shammies are going to provide the Inspiration / Ancestral Fort buff, Holy Priests don't need to.
So then by the same logic...
If Disco Priests and Shadow Priests are going to bring the Improved Fort buff, Holy doesn't need to spec for it.
This logic is just
incorrect
and it benefits everybody to spec for it, even if you're NOT the only one who might be using it, because in the event that others aren't around, you're left without; and being without just isn't as good as being with. :-)
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Synectics
So I think a lot in terms of analogies and after contemplating this inspiration talent debate, I thought of a semi-accurate analogy.
If Disco Priests/Resto Shammies are going to provide the Inspiration / Ancestral Fort buff, Holy Priests don't need to.
So then by the same logic...
If Disco Priests and Shadow Priests are going to bring the Improved Fort buff, Holy doesn't need to spec for it.
This logic is just
incorrect
and it benefits everybody to spec for it, even if you're NOT the only one who might be using it, because in the event that others aren't around, you're left without; and being without just isn't as good as being with. :-)
Amazingly put, and I agree completely.
Post by
Paolo
This is a
classic philosophical dilemma
. Solutions range from the
most selfish
to
the least
and everywhere in between.
In this case it's a fairly easy problem to solve ("where else would you put those points?"), but it's still worth thinking about the broader implications of this issue. Every society has to find its preferred balance between the needs of the individual and the needs of the collective, which are often at odds. Liberty versus security, as the most obvious example.
</end wow-as-metaphor-for-life>
...for now
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OscarDivine
poo poo and ka ka.
Paolo, we're talking about a different kind of inspiration. ;-) But thanks for that.
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