Originally Posted by
xGLxAnubis
Mostly this, except the spot healing bit. Don't spot heal with Effuse, tank heal. Vivify will handle your spot healing, or your other healers will. AoE healing is handled by single EF followed by Effuse/Vivify on the affected targets for the double Gusts proc.
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Of course, HPaladin has other tools. I'm just starting with the comparison of our main heals and how Effuse v FoL is better, then explaining that the rest of our kit is ALSO good for what I'm suggesting.
People are so stuck on EF spam because that's been the way of life all expansion and can't see past the fact that we DO have alternatives now. It's actually pretty common for things like this to happen. Groupthink et al.
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Well, no, not exactly. But there does have to be a first person to come up with something, right? And not better, because this is strictly worse for raid healing. It's different, not better. It fills a completely different role in your healing comp.
More than likely I suspect the top players, by and large, long ago abandoned playing MW at a high level and find no reason to come back to it and try new things when their current class is working as intended. Or most people are too stuck on groupthink and/or what they know and refuse to/haven't considered trying something new. Because getting set on an idea and having a hard time accepting something you believed to not be true is human nature. You, for example, based on your reply.
What's perplexing here is that I'm not advocating for people to try something terribly outlandish... Gear for Mastery, focus on healing your tank and let your other healers worry about the raid. Use EnM and hit your tank with Effuses, keep RM up like normal, Vivify one of the tanks when it procs (or if they're topped off, someone who isn't. Normal healer stuff you know), seldom us EF and always follow up EF casts with Effuse/Vivify. If it doesn't work, you wipe a couple times, right? Where's the harm. I don't get it. Why are people so outraged at my assertion? Try. It. It's a different style healing than you're used to, certainly. But if you think your current style is broken, you have literally nothing to lose.