Comments on: Flash Heal: Rapture Mana Restoration

By: Isharu

Isharu — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 06:11:19 +0000

Inner Will would cut down cost of shield, making it weaker same time.. dunno if its worth it, most of our healing comes from shields. Besides, both IF and IW launches a GCD, so theres no option to macro those to all spells. Yeah, thought abaut that already

By: Ethidium

Ethidium — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:01:49 +0000

is there a way to macro PW: S in a way that i change from inner fire to inner will before casting and right back again?

atm i also can’t remember if inner will and inner fire are off the gcd and this macro would be viable at all to get a little more mana out of rapture.

By: Isharu

Isharu — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:21:51 +0000

I really dont know if taking SoS will mess up rapture usage.. You either way end up shielding 2 targets, since rapture cd is 12sec, and Weakend soul is 15 sec on target.. It will be situational, for fights with one tank and not much raid dmg, you will waste 3sec per cd of rapture w/o SoS. On the other hand, with shield boost, it may last on tank for those 2-3 sec more, screwing rotation even more when incl SoS Its maybe just me, but shields are mainly for mana recovery and “oh shit” for some dps situations.

Besides, taking SoS would mean droping attonment, and it really brings you some nice mana numbers as well.. i currently stand at 7k from rapture and ab. 5.6k from archangel. Pretty nice.

WTB Prayer of healin spreading grace… would love 24% healin buff on group :]

By: Avalonna

Avalonna — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:35:31 +0000

No, I haven’t found a work around. I tried removing it from clique, and just hotkeying a If+gheal/PoH macro – same thing.I still pound the keys like a DPS at times.

I also tried just making a power aura for IF offcooldown (on top of the Forte notifications – I have a bad attention span) and using an alt key modifier assignment for IF on those heals. It works, but seems to be not only cumbersome, but 2 key hits can end up taking longer. I’m just dealing with it, and it’s pissing me off.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 19:12:28 +0000

I love Rapture…I usually end up around 5th on recount for ‘mana gained’ in our 25man runs. I use the AA atonement spec. Havent cast heal since hitting lvl 85. Have to say though, when 4.0.6 drops I shall be dropping my 2 points in darkness and moving them to SoS especially as we will be doing heroic mode raids by then.

SoS will be much more viable – Surge or Light – GH/FH > SoS WS reduction. /sweet

By: simplehiccup

simplehiccup — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 07:26:45 +0000

Thank you for this article. Taking advantage of all Rapture procs is so important. Until they hotfix Inner Focus to stop randomly locking up I feel I need all the help I can get. Ava, have you found a work-around for that freeze-up yet?
GM got back to me in-game and told me to play without addons and macros. I am too addicted to Grid and Clique, so my solution was to ditch my Clique Inner Focus+Greater/POH macros, and now cast IF manually. Very awkward and clunky.

By: simplehiccup

simplehiccup — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 07:15:31 +0000

Indeed I have ditched the newspaper in favour of these Flash Heals. They go great with my morning cup of Joe.

By: Avalonna

Avalonna — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 23:24:30 +0000

He thought he was so clever with the rapture Powa. I had to burst his big head bubble and tell him I already had one…with a Freddy Krueger laugh.

I’m still sticking to the “no heal” argument. I just felt like I was fighting to work it in simply to support SoS, and in practice, I’m pumping out more raw healing without using heal/SoS, and simply using gheal/ToT/Atonement. The few extra seconds removed from WS just isn’t worth it at this stage, especially since I’m really only using a shield for pure mana return.

By: Derevka

Derevka — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:43:46 +0000

I love me some Power Auras. I was fiddling with PA and the duration timer a just post Cata and it hit me… A HA! Rapture tracking!

Even after the patch, PWS (while buffed) isn’t going to be worth spamming. Casting 2-3 times during a Rapture CD… maybe. I forsee not much more than that.

SoS – really can mess with your rapture procs, particularly if you are doing 10 mans or heroics. (since you’ll be assisting/tank healing much more regularly than on 25s). Disc on 25′s (fight dependant) can be a SPECTACULAR raid healer. (POH->DA/Mastery) But, 2 points for SoS, to then /force/ me to cast Heal, to get Rapture 3 seconds sooner isn’t worth it, IMO.

By: Sol

Sol — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:58:21 +0000

I’ve been meaning to create a power auras setting that would track the state of weakened soul on the party/raid to make a (cheap) psudo-rapture tracker. The idea being that I would really only shield the tank given how poor PW:S is currently; and yes, I am crossing my fingers that the numbers will be much more substantial after the patch.

This idea is much more clean. Thank you for the great post.

Also – did you have any more input about Strength of Soul? As Ava pointed out in ‘The Cataclysmic State of Disc’ it does seem like I’m fighting the rapture ICD and forcing heal into my rotation just to squeeze in the utility of that talent. Maybe if the patch note that said it would be expanded to FH/GH was implemented it would be more worthwhile? Not to get too far off-topic, of course.