Cures

[da5idblacksun]

I personally don't use cures.  I wasted mana using them early in my Templar life but they just don't seem worth the hassle as afflictions seem to have short timers and don't really seem to affect the toons I'm healing.Am I missing something?<div></div>

[Wastura]

<P>Yes, yes you are.</P> <P>At lower levels cures oft do seem meaningless, however when you get into say, halls of fate, a brigand mob will drop your tank in two hits after debuffing his mit by 3000. Similarly, a raid without cures is damned to wipe in any T7 raid zone without.</P> <P>My brother recently started a healer and I had him practicing cures from the moment he got them, and he's now the most effective curer in his raids, so don't get out of practice.</P> <P>At 70 cures are pretty much the cheapest power spells you have.</P>

[Hoopak]

<DIV>I am learning that at the high end cures are indeed very valuable.</DIV>

[Domanz]

Some debuffs makes the tank stunned or unable to cast taunts. Those kinds of debuffs have to be cured very fast if you dont want the mobs jumping on you hitting you for 1k hit and being unable to heal yourself and the party.

[Khayjames]

Cures use a ton of power, but at the high end, you will save power by curing rather than healing. Also, if you do not cure, no amount of healing will save your raid or group.<div></div>

[Bjerde]

Cures become very important 60+. There are mobs that have Devitalize, Dispatch, Despoiling Mist, etc.. They can drop the tanks mitigation by 1000+Dispatch is probably the most familiar to many of us because it is a Brigand ability that they use all the time. You see how much your damage goes up when you Dispatch a mob, same holds true for the tank when a mob uses Dispatch on them...they take much more damage.For people not raiding, try going into HoF without curing Trauma when you are fighting the Droag Raider(?) mobs and you will see how quickly the tank drops. Then try it with curing, the fight is much, much eaiser <span>:smileywink:</span><div></div>

[Wastura]

<P>I'm not entirely sure why it is you believe cures use a ton of power.</P> <P>I have a 7.5-8k power pool during most raids and FT 60, generally a single cure is unnoticeable, and it's only in fights when I'm a spam curer on the MT extending beyond a minute worth or more that I'll even see my power use more than 10%</P> <P>Yes, all told the total ammount of power used on cures can be enormous, but all told its extremely mana efficient and other than focussed benediction, some e-heals etc, it's the cheapest power cost. Admitted the same is not true for group cure.</P>

[KniteShayd]

<DIV>although my temp alt is only in his teens, can i say, i love cures?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>they help on pvp when fighting 1v1. and yes, as i have a 40's druid, i use them alot while in group. it does save power for healing.  Just think, if a DoT can do a total damage amout to say 10% of your total HP, why wouldyoulet it run its course when you can cut short the dmg and save more % of your health? </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>nothing is more annoying than having a healer that sits on it's @$$ not curing the tank when he's fully debuffed. Debuffs are another reason to use cures.  why would i want to sit and be less mitigated or less capable of healing/damaging than i could be?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>also, should you choose it, your temp curesline on your AA enhaces your cures by giving them reactives. atm, my temp only has cure nox and trauma and only my cure trauma works.  but even with my cure trauma, my health is preserved by it's reactive trigger.</DIV> <P>Message Edited by KniteShayd on <SPAN class=date_text>12-13-2006</SPAN> <SPAN class=time_text>02:03 AM</SPAN></P><p>Message Edited by KniteShayd on <span class=date_text>12-13-2006</span> <span class=time_text>02:03 AM</span>

[Boli32]

If you consider I'm often drafted into a MT group just for my curing ability then yes.. yes you are.Its an aspect of the game most don't understand I'm sorry to say, but learn to use your function keys (F1-F6 swaps between your group members) and cure buttons. I find it best to order the cures "trama arcane noix elemental" just as they appear next to the group member's name so the entire thing becomes instictive.Actually for me they are just above my heals and as I'm a mouse clicker the entire thing is pure instictive now; in a given fight you're looking at curing a couple of dots and one debuff - leaving them running their full duration in T7 sometimes means you have to heal that bit more but sometimes means a wipe.<div></div>