Infest?

[DreadLobster]

http://www.wowhead.com/spell=17

http://www.wowhead.com/spell=48066

They both coast 23% base mana, so Downranking does nothing except gimp yourself.

Sorry but I'd almost believe you were trolling if you weren't a Mod.

If Infest is simply absorbed and PW:S stays up then the poor priests gets no Rapture proc. Making the poor priest go OOM (at some point).
Now if they downrank a bit then about 10 PW:S all break and the poor priest gets lots of mana back while still preventing all the Infests.

Downranking not to gimp yourself but to keep your mana up while still saving the raid.

[Ronark]

If Infest is simply absorbed and PW:S stays up then the poor priests gets no Rapture proc. Making the poor priest go OOM (at some point).

Or the priest could pop Shadowfiend, or channel HoH during transitions?

Point in case being, in this specific scenario where people are dying from Infest, the mana that the priest may or may not not will not help immediately to solve the issue.

[Possiblyreefer]

Tell your priest to bubble raid, keep PoM bouncing, penance tank.
Resto druid: WG+rejuv spam. Occasional nourish to the tank. That is all.

Seriously if you have brain dead healers like this though, don't expect them to move out of defiles- they'll probably fail at it and cause even more wipes on phase 2. Hell they'll probably fall off the cliff because they don't move back in.

and then the orbs will give them all flying lessons

[Donmc]

Did 10m heroic on my disc priest alt. Two healed it w/ a resto druid. Druid on tanks nad me on raid. Put on two int trinket to go down to 3500 sp. The priest should have no problem shielding the entire raid and if a melee is pulling aggro on ghouls, a penance should bring them over 90% to remove infest and there is plenty of time in between to PoM the tanks.

The only reason you'd want to downrank shields is if you're having mana problems. Infest is removed when the target's health reaches 90% so you want your shield to barely break from infest while still keeping ppl at above 90% and you get rupture procs from multiple targets and never go oom.

As others have said, that shouldn't even be necessary. It's a long fight, your priest needs to use their mana regens early. I popped shadowfiend a lil' late in P1 on the LK and hymned during p2 transition and got to use them again before the end of the fight. If priest is picked up and a few targets go w/o shields on infest, he needs to IMEDDIATELY hymn after getting out of the Valk and pray that's enough.

But that was two healing heroic. You honestly shouldn't have any problems with infest using 3 healers.

[Marilina]

Exactly- which means he/she should have ample mana without having to resort to using a downranked spell as an exploit (or cleaver game mechanic use, in either case it isn't working as intended).



Unfortunately thats also why it is being removed- Its too hard to assume that everyone would be using the max rank of spells, etc.

scenario 1:
251 priest with 0% buff
priest casts 10 shields (6660 cost)
infest penetrates every shield, 100% effect from rupture

scenario 2:
264 priest with 30% buff
priest again casts 10 shields (6660 cost)
infest doesnt penetrate shields, 0% effect from rupture


and on the second part, if you have any reading comprehension you'd realise they like that design(thus giving to each healer a slow medium and fast(by cast and cost) heal in cata) but not to the extend where it went to (like using 1-2 rank lower heals since they were more effective mana per heal)

[Ronark]

and on the second part, if you have any reading comprehension you'd realise they like that design(thus giving to each healer a slow medium and fast(by cast and cost) heal in cata) but not to the extend where it went to (like using 1-2 rank lower heals since they were more effective mana per heal)

They were more mana-efficient because healer mana "mattered" then, where nowadays it does not.

[Sasume]

Grats on getting LK down OP!

[Natrii]

Just an update, we made our disc priest go holy, got rid of the druid, and replaced him with a new disc priest...we 2 shot LK.

---------- Post added 2010-09-10 at 01:08 PM ----------

Grats on getting LK down OP!

Thank you!