2013-09-09, 08:18 PM
Foolyz Wrote:Advanced mechanics certainly won't come until you are into your job. If you don't like it, then switch. However, there seems like a lot to do once higher levels come around. You'll have to pay attention to your passive cure procs, Freecure and Overcure, reducing emnity with Shroud, and managing Presence of Mind and Divine Seals cooldowns. Also, don't use Stone after you get Stone II unless you need the Heavy status, you'll notice your damage jump tremendously. You also might want to try out SCH now that you've already got the required CNJ 15.
Now I don't understand this. All of the things you mentioned are in this game. You have five heals, not including regen, all with varying cast speeds and one has a long cooldown; you have a proc off of Cure that will reduce the MP cost of Cure II to 0, which will be extremely important for resource management, and then ANOTHER proc off of Cure II that will cause Cure III to have a guaranteed crit (read as "double power next spell"); and I don't understand "active resource management," because you can't spam cures all willy nilly or you will run out of MP, so you have to watch what is happening and react to save your MP.
Care to elaborate? I'm not getting it. Seems like you just don't like the playstyle, which is fine.
I started as Arcanist so I already have that to level 16, so I might do that.
I did some more research and I guess it's not as bad as I thought. I didn't realize that Cure I, II, and III were my efficient, fast, and big heals. The naming convention is just bizarre and I thought I was looking at different levels of the same spell. That's pretty much what I wanted; you should be able to spam the efficient heals and DPS skills pretty carelessly but manage the bigger and faster heals.
I guess as an example of where I'm coming from, the Resto Druid class in WoW has a HoT based theme. In addition to the three basic heals, they have a basic HoT, a big instant heal on a short cooldown that can only be applied to a target with a running HoT, and a HoT called Lifebloom that can only be placed on one target at a time and stacks on itself up to a cap (so you'd usually want to keep it on the tank, and it takes some time to reapply to another target). Lifebloom can be allowed to expire for a big burst heal, at the cost of needing to reapply stacks. Interactions between these spells include the efficient heal healing more when a HoT is running on the target, the fast heal having a high chance to crit which can proc other effects, and all direct heals applying a buff which increases the effectiveness of HoTs and vice versa.
There are also area-based and proximity-based AoE heals, a massive full raid heal on a huge cooldown, some other CDs for stuff like instant casts, HoT acceleration, self-preservation, and bestowing a large amount of temporary mana restoration for self or an ally.
I realize that some of it is unnecessary complexity that doesn't really affect the gameplay a lot, but there is quite a bit there that makes the gameplay more interesting than simply playing the encounters.
Anyway, the situation looks better than I thought, so I'm done bitching for now.