New Mystic Concerns and Questions

[Condar Tarsonia]

<DIV>Greetings all,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I was looking into starting a healer character, just to put myself through the torture the elite few of you seem to enjoy.  I've had a lowbie inquisitor for a while, and the idea seemed ok, he just did not seem all that exciting, and looking down the road, I did not seem to see anything that really made me excited about pursuing him.  The other day, though, I grouped with a high level mystic for the first time, and absolutely fell in love.  You guys get all kinds of cool spells!  I had been thinking about creating a warden or fury, since all I hear about is how uber they are, but I see them everywhere... and when I see group advertising, they're the ONLY healers I EVER see excluded.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Anyways, I just had a few questions.  First, where do you see Mystics following the dreaded LU24?  Do you know of any serious nerfs coming that will detract from the class?  Also, I was hoping someone could point me to some initial resources on being an effective healer and the basic strategies used by Mystics (solo/group).  I plan on twinking my Mystic out as well, so what are the most important spells to upgrade for solo and groups?  I figure I won't be raiding for a while, so I'll save those questions for later.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I appreciate the help, and thank you in advance, and look forward to becoming involved in this community.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>-Kataran Planewalker</DIV> <DIV>Guardians of the Realm</DIV>

[GidionSWE]

<DIV>we're basicly not getting nerfed at all since we dont have many control abilities...just 1, our 5 minute recast ae detaunt which will mezz for 5 seconds instead of 12.5 or so.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>healing in group is basicly just casting ure solo and group ward, this way when the solo ward is used up u still have ure group ward there to protect so u can recast ure solo ward and when the group ward gets used up u got ure solo ward there to protect while u recast ure group ward...basicly it isnt very exciting and u can be semi afk most of the time..but thats prolly true for most healers..dont rly need debuffs for group content.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>its when things get rough though that u need to be rdy and on ure A-game, and its what will seperate a bad from a good healer.. </DIV>

[OzzRa]

LU24 is actually a buff for Mystics, a players mitigation is now calculated when they have a ward on them.  What does this mean?  Our wards last that much longer.  CC is getting the revamp next update, as a Mystic my STA AA line shield bash is getting nerfed but it wasn't that long of a stun anyway.  I used it more for interupting than the stun.

[Banditman]

<div><blockquote><hr>OzzRamm wrote:<div></div>LU24 is actually a buff for Mystics, a players mitigation is now calculated when they have a ward on them.  What does this mean?  Our wards last that much longer. <hr></blockquote>Mitigation has been used with Wards since LU13.</div>

[Eileithia]

The only mitigation changes on test have to do with Fighters intercept abilities.. those will now take the casters mitigation into effect instead of 0 mitigation like it is now. It will give a reason for Tank A to intercept damage off of Tank B as it will no longer kill tank B. I see it being extremely useful in raids..