Comments on: Raid Composition: Less Healers and More DPS? http://talesofapriest.com/2008/12/30/raid-composition-less-healers-and-more-dps/ A Perspective on the Raiding Priest Sun, 21 Apr 2013 08:24:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Blake http://talesofapriest.com/2008/12/30/raid-composition-less-healers-and-more-dps/#comment-20 Blake Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:01:00 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=21#comment-20 To me, the biggest concerns about running with “fewer Healers/more DPS” is always “busted pull recovery” and “trash pack mana regen”. At this point, the boss fights are a known quantity; you know what’s coming and when, and you can plan and adjust accordingly. But my experience is that “more DPS” = “more aggressive DPS”, and that leads to some. . .exciting. . .trash pulls, especially in Naxx-25.

Chain pulling trash packs (intentional or accidental) can lead to mana problems (I take it as a personal slight if I have to use a mana pot on trash packs). Little spider pack + two packs of Grand Widow followers + the big spider patrol = lots of fun. Three gargoyles + two gargoyles going down to Noth = 15+ stacks of the DoT = lots of fun. Three packs of the floating weapons after Razuvious = lots of fun. There’s about 7 or 8 places in Naxx that I can almost see the trash train wreck coming.

I have to remind myself to call out for a mana break, and I, at least, always forget to call for Innervates, even though they’re usually available. The times that we do have a trash pack wipe, I can almost always trace it back to the healers running out of mana.

I think whatever cooldown Blizzard puts on CoH will hinder speed-pulling and/or busted pull recovery, because, when you absolutely have to crank out the HPS in an emergency, nothing comes close to standing on the CoH button.

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