It would be nice mechanic for us healers where the game would recognize when someone dies during an encounter (in the way failbot can identify those idiots) and then it would translate to increased stam or something to the rest of the group. Not enough to make up the loss of DPS but maybe like a 2 min buff. To avoid people dying on purpose and then getting a battle rez you can make the person have an option to give the buff to the group and be ineligible for a battle rez or not give the buff and be eligible.

This change will only work not by your terms of 60% down to 35%, but 60% down to 10%.

If I have HT that does 20K health, and the tank has 150K, then the boss can hit for 30K every 2 secs and I can’t solo heal them, nor can I keep spamming my highest without mana issues, but it takes a good 10 secs of no healing before they die. It returns it back to where vanilla was in that tanks took a number of hits before dying, but keeping them alive solo on fights like Chromaggus would drain your mana too fast.

We need the time to chose HPM spells over HPS spells, and we need the incentive to manage our mana. As it is, I don’t know of any single non-HM fight where I’ve heard a healer go “Fully OOM, regenning for a bit, take over on X” during Wrath or late BC. Healers can’t race the DPS meters, and the current “Heart Attack every 5 secs” style is not a ‘fun’ one, not because it isn’t challenging to keep them up, but because a single misstep or half-second pause can wipe the group in an environment where counting wipes is directly affecting your loot. Healers are generally group-oriented, definitely smarter than DPS and we’re constantly running on Triage Mode, so we need challenges involving decision making instead of competition.

Triage Mode – What I mean by this is like the First Aid quest at 225 skill. You have a number of dying people at various stages and you need to prioritise what you can save, and what’s most important to save, and what you use to save them, based on their role, the upcoming damage, your mana pool, and your spells available, plus whatever other healers are around you.

Its that kind of situation that got me into healing in the first place, and as time has gone by we’ve gotten further and further away from it. This change *if implemented properly this time* will hopefully return us more towards that situation.

1) Power Infusion (haste/lower casts)
2) Replenish (the Druid talent)
3) Other ways to influence the raid’s output rather than just damage increases, such as ways to give Death Knights RP. If healers could do this, you could partner healers with DPS classes to increase raid DPS. Could be interesting.
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