AA set up --> coming back and need good advice for group play AA spec

[Ziviel]

Hi I have a level 54 fury and hoping I can get some good advice from you all here. heres how I play if it helps... I play almost completely in a group with rarely doing solo.  Whats the best AA set up for group play?

[baguetteovenfresh]

i am personally very fond of a balanced mix of damage, heal crits, and power regen on demand/other goodies. so i took energy line all the way down, making sure to get full points in the aoe nuke, single nuke. down to spell criticals in intelligence line, then the animalism line. animal form is good for others and is good for replenishing mana if you are the single healer in a pinch. also the added +int and +savagery procs make people happy too - plus you dont need a horse for 2 extra points in peerless runspeed boost. finally i am getting stamina down to at least heal criticals, the end line looks very useful so ill probably pick up serenicist. no idea where to put the left overs honestly, i am only 55 and when i get heal criticals im not sure what else i need other than fluffy fun extras (not sure if i can buy anything *real* with that will be left anyway.) this means with a healer in the group i can toss out group hots and nuke stuff down to debuff it's life bar, and as a single healer i can handle pretty beefy stuff if i am on my toes and careful. it is very versatile and allows you to solo orange^^ non-heroics or non-heroic nameds with crappy newbie gear like mine and very little downtime. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> the one serious drawback is no de-aggro ability except your pbaoe deaggro with its long recast timer or animal form which stifles you - i found out how bad this can be first time when i was 9 levels higher than my tank and had the mystic ask the tank to let me be the tank. <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> still patching my leathers after that...

[Anastasie]

<p>It really depends upon your play style. I chose STA/INT is the KOS line. Sta line has your heal crits and INT line has your spell crits as well as ups your focus/disruption skills. (btw - you can't have too much focus - helps keep you from getting interrupted)  IMO none of the end abilities in this tree are all that great. I did not take the INT end line since it aoe's even when you are buffing or summoning your horse - not a good thing when you are in town <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />. I did end up taking the serenicist ability, which is really more useful on raids, but can help on the few solo/group mobs that might stun/stiffle. You could just as easily up your stats instead. For EOF I went Energy/Animalism. Energy line is great if you want to contribute to group dps and also lets you get back to healing faster when you do nuke. If you are second healer in the group, you can really put out the dmg using energy vortex.  As far as Animalism, boosting your group buffs is really helpful. The one ability that is very useful is the hibernation upgrade. It just really depends if you want to spend the points in less useful spells to get there. I also upped my emergency heals. Some furies prefer to melee more than nuke, so they opt for the STR line in KOS. I initially had both energy vortex and animal form which is good for soloing or sometimes grouping, but opted to put the points into hibernation instead for more group/raid utility. It can be a lot of fun nuking away, then get your power back using animal form. Best of luck playing around with your set-up. </p>

[Lemubie]

<p>I have almost the same set-up as you. I took the Sta/Int lines in the KoS tree as well, but I also took both end line abilities. The Int would be a problem in some places, but I just have to remember to take it off. I only use it with particular mobs. First name in FTHO is the main reason I chose it. Don't want to be low dps with that guy. So every heal, cure, you're nuking automatic.</p><p>For the EoF tree, I took alot of the increase to heal spells, group buffs, debuffs, but didn't do much with nuking until seeing what I have left over to fill in with the last of my aa's. We normally have alot of dps in raid and I'm usually healing more than nuking unless in easy raid zones where I can have some real fun <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />.</p><p>I do plan on trying out a few different things, but I like my setup as is for now.</p>