Feldon After a firestorm of player comment, a line item change in the Test Update Notes indicates that Subclass AAs (Alternate Advancements) will be available to low level characters once more. From the EQ2 Test Update Notes:
The Subclass Alternate Advancement Tree once again unlocks at level 10.
Game Update 61 is expected to go live in the last week of August.
That’s a start… Next open the shadow tree at level 20
why do they keep slapping druids in the face with these changes 🙁 We are already the red headed stepchildren of healing 🙁 hmmm maybe thats why *mommy dearest*
@Alasoy: Play another healer class for a while, then you can realize the advantages that your old class had. (That goes for any healer; everybody somehow seems to think they’re at the bottom of the totem pole.)
I’ve played all three healer types to high level. They are all amazing in their own way, but everyone only focuses on their own weaknesses compared to the others’ strengths, while ignoring the opposite. The grass is always greener on the other side, as they say.
I may be somewhat biased, as the proud player of a raid defiler, but I take a glass half-full view of the healing classes m’self. Yes, there are flaws, but the healers are in great shape compared to some classes (brawlers) that are still struggling (warriors) after repeated half-baked ‘revisions’.
And yes, that includes druids. 🙂
Besides, there’s more to effectiveness than the heal parse. Cures, dispels, I’m sure I could go on and on. Druids have plenty to bring to the table.
I dont cure – am a healing and DPS druid
Alasoy said : I dont cure – am a healing and DPS druid
I lol’ed..
Druids are always going to show lower on the heal parse due to the order of priority for heals:
1. Wards are always applied first. Wards outright prevent damage from happening.
2. Reactive heals are applied after Wards are used up upon incoming. Usually and often the Reactive heal will top off the recipient.
3. Only when the tank has taken more damage than Wards and Reactives cover will direct and heal-over-time heals actually have a chance to heal up.
It’s for that reason that shaman and clerics show up higher on the heal parse: they get first dibs.
Xalmat knowest 🙂 besides heal parse numbers is truely overrated and can be padded as you see fit.
Its not the parse itself that is interesting its how the numbers look when you inspect them..
What Xalmat said. Where you are in the group set up will have a bit to play as to your heal parse. I also track cures with ACT, to see which healers are pulling their weight in that department.
I’ve removed some comments from this page. I will also be monitoring comments more closely in the coming days. This is not EQ2Flames.
Also, the MT healers will (normally) see higher parses, because more of the heals are ‘needed’ and thus, y’know, heal. If you’re off with the mages and the tank’s getting the job done (and the mages aren’t wandering into AoEs) your heal parse will be lower, because there’s less damage to heal.
Repeating for emphasis–the parse is not the be-all and end-all of performance. Getting the job done without constant rezzing is.
The fact that Feldon announced his removal of comments suggests it’s not something he has to do often. That’s what I love about EQ2Wire–most commenters here can disagree with eachother without devolving into namecalling. 🙂
@Anaogi:
Amen! Do your job, do it as hard as can. Live raid trumps top of heal parse in my book.
My wife plays healers and is damn good at it. The only time she cares about the heal parse is when people are dying. FYI it’s usually when healers aren’t CURING to try to bump their heal parse (or because they just fail at being a healer by not curing).
Cures are very important this expansion because they the effects tick so hard, and Druids are beast at cures!
“Druids are best at cures”
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