Situational how?
9 times out of 10 revival is going to full heal your raid. That's -far- for being situational. Yes, there are some mechanics where revival is going to be slightly weaker compared to htt. But the opposite is also true, where revival far out classes htt in x scenario.
Revival's net healing might be lower now, but net healing is meaningless when it basically full heals your raid.
It's happening. The thread is descending.
"Best CD" is mechanic dependent. I would say Tranq/HTT were better in Highmaul because it was a lot of ticking aoe (I.e. Infesting Spores). Revival is the best raid heal CD in BRF because the aoe damage tends to come in large bursts and the fact that it's instant which works well with all the high movement fights. I will say it is the hardest to use correctly, but that depends on the monk who uses it.
Although if we're going to talk about the "'must have" CD, it's obviously Divine Sacrifice + Clemency.
I disagree to revival "depends on the monk who uses it".
In fact, it depends on the raid-leader. The raid-leader won't allow you to use your revival as you want for Revival is strong and instant. The stronger revival is, the less freedom you have.
At 3am the morning, I defeated Heroic Blackhand for my first time in a group made by the premade-groups, but I feel sad for my awful hps because of the awful revival.
The raid-leader didn't let me use revival at stage 1 but use it at a very awful time at stage 2. Finally I could only cast 1 time revival and its overhealing is 62.2%.
(My item-level is 680. The battle duration is 6min 52sec. 20man heroic. I cannot upload it on the WCL because of the awful wow server lag.)
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heroics are so easy we have our mistweaver fistweave 100% of the time on 100% of the fights. Last week was our last guild heroic run tho, going full time mythic, but I'm sure we weren't the only guild doing that so I feel heroic stats for mistweavers are going to be skewed because of that, and the nature of not having any absorbs in a low dmg atmosphere. Much more meaningful data comes from mythic.
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The only healer than can really "snipe" a MW effectively at this point are Disc Priests. And on farm content (AND progression, mind you) you'll be fistweaving, anyway. Adding 25k dps to a fight while still maintaining 45k+ hps is something the other healing classes just can't compete with. Sorry, but the other raid healers in your group just must be severely better than you.
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This. When the damage is actually size-able and matters, a good MW is going to destroy the competition.
Sure. MW has the highest learning curve of the healing specs. But if you're good at it, you're going to be able to pull our some insane aoe healing and decent damage to boot. On the trash before Gruul I sustained 150k hps (Bursting well into the 300k range) over the 1-2min or so pull and our disc priest, who is normally the only person who can beat me on certain fights, capped out at around 70k sustained. This is because while Disc absorbs are indeed very powerful, they have their limits. MW are tuned around purposefully having a TON of overhealing, but when that overhealing becomes healing due to immense aoe damage, our numbers skyrocket. On fights where we don't have opportunities like this, we fistweave and add a nice chunk of damage to the meters, which other healers just can't do.
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Yep. You're RL is a moron. That isn't the Mistweaver class's fault.
MW isn't too nerfed in PvP, you just gotta be more conservative and use mana tea every time you can even if you're at like 85% mana