Originally Posted by
Darkener
OK, so i'm a Priest healer trying to get the hang of MW as my alt and I have the same frustrations already expressed and more. ReM really bothers me, I know to use it on cooldown, but when I get to cast it again I usually go searching all over my raid frames looking for a suitable target. What I usually find are low-health players with a ReM already ticking, 100% players with no ReM, and a tank that is a few seconds away from losing ReM. I feel inefficient putting ReM on someone at 100%, so I tend to ReM the tank with a few seconds left. I know that's a waste (or is it?) of a tick. So then I started to make a mental note of who to ReM next when I cast it (planning ahead) which never works either because by the time I can cast it again my pre-planned target is already swimming in a fresh ReM. So I feel like I'm either constantly micromanaging ReM and neglecting everything else, or I get distracted and during a big damage burst only then realize I only have 2 or 3 ReM out. Ugh!
The whole random healing thing is also very unnerving, and in 10man I am constantly starting to do something and then canceling that by doing something else when I realize that it's no longer the something I should be doing: starting a SM channel and then suddenly interrupting it with a ReM only to realize that I cast ReM on the same person I just interrupted my SM on. Ugh! Oh, and they had a few seconds on ReM already so double UGH!
And when I finally get ReM going on 6 or 7 people, and a big damage burst comes, I jabx2 uplift, jabx2 uplift, but 2 or 3 people are just getting zilcho healing from that and die. Ugh!
It's just so frustrating coming from a class with so much control that I know exactly who will get healed by my PoH and in 2 casts I get all 10 raid members a heal. This MW healing feels like healing with a blindfold on. I can't really see what's going on, I don't really know who is getting healed.
Then there is chi ... my tendency as Holy is to horde mana for a burst phase, then start saving up again. In real life i hate spending cash as it comes in, I save it up. Chi is so counter to my whole philosophy. I want to spend 5 minutes at 4 chi so I'm prepared for that big damage spike in phase 42 of the fight. Ok, i jest, but I did put an annoying sound in to warn me when I have 4 chi so I dont "waste" mana like a dumbass, but all that does is annoy the hell out of me and interrupt me in the middle of doing something else (like get that damn ReM out, let's see... No, not you you have one ... No, not you you're at 100% ... No, not you you have that "don't heal me" debuff on you ... Oh crap whatever I'll just ReM the tank) then suddenly the sound comes: BLAM! 4 Chi, BLAM! 4 Chi then I think "oh, crap I'm a baddie now if i don't dump this Chi ... hmm, should I Chi wave or Tiger Palm or Blackout Kick or ... Crap now NO One has ReM on them so forget Uplift. I'm constantly interrupted by cooldowns or chi. It's almost like I'm not even in control of what I am doing, the class is controlling me.
So, any advice? Did others go through a similar awkward phase getting the hang of this weird thing called a Mistweaver Monk?