Raiding AA: Why is WIS better than AGI ? someone please convince me

[simonladen]

<p>So I am now raiding as a lvl 70 defiler and more and more now I am starting to ask myself if WIS is a better line than AGI.</p><p>I am currently specced STR/WIS and am considering going to STR /AGI for raiding.</p><p>The STR line I am taking regardless but can someone plase tell me why WIS is better than AGI for a raiding defiler.</p><p>The WIS2 +% to healing is nice but I will take 1 point in that if I respec to STR and AGI. I will have 5 points left over and so I still get to keep it.</p><p>So that leaves the increase in skills which is nice but I was landing my debuffs just fine before hand.</p><p>The main thing is the end ability in the WIS line. YEs it is nice to cast it on the templar or MT but I find myelf thinking that the +16% healing crit would help more. Also there are some fights where I am doing so much that I dont get to cast the time reducing ability on them yet I will always be using my healing crits.</p><p>I guess now that I am actually raiding I dont see how WIS is better to have over AGI, in real situations.</p><p>If someone can change my mind it would be great, thanks</p>

[Besual]

I think it's one of the wis-skills that reduces our reuse timer. It might be not the usefull for the normal spells but it's great for spells / items with a quite long reuse timer.And final ability in the wis-line is just great: give it to your tank if he has trouble holding agro; give it to a DPSer to improve the group DPS; give it to an other healer to help with burst healing. Sadly we can't cast it on ourself.

[Salodor]

<p>Here ya go, from EQ2Flames deifler boards:</p><p><i>over a 4 minute period, with a 5 second cast and 15 second recast, you would cast 3 group wards per minute, at 15% heal crits, you would get 2 crits, for a total additional heal of 1010over a 4 minute period, with 8% reuse reduction, you have a 5 second cast, and 13.8 second recast, allowing you one additional group ward for 3.7kso your basically looking at a 3:1 ratio of gained heals with wis winning over easily</i></p><p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.eq2flames.com/defilers/7095-test-aas-3.html#post163588" target="_blank">Here</a> is a link to the post, you can check through the thread if ya like</p>

[knightofround]

Simple. Wards have no range to crit.+Crit is valuable for weapons, because almost every weapon and spell has a damage range. Not only do crits lengthen the range, but they also shift the spread towards the upper end of the spectrum.A critted ward is exactly +15% bigger. So 20% increase heal crit will increase your HpS by 3% Hardly noticable.However, consider a reduction in recast time. Our two wards are on 30 second recast timers. Cut that down to 27 seconds, and you can throw up 11% more wards than you could beforehand. Now THAT is a noticable increase in heals per second.Another thing to consider is that the rest of the agility line buffs our personal melee abilities; which is foolish, because a good 3/4ths of our personal dps comes from spells. On the other hand, the WIS line enhances our direct heals (very useful when macroed) and the miniature jesters-cap provides a great deal of utility. (I always cast it on the tank so they can get their specialty taunts back quicker) The +casting skills is fluff, but still better than getting melee crits.

[RustyB]

<p>since they changed the WIS line   imo there is no better choice for us..  Ritual is nice when we need a big heal  it's also nice to combine with our mana regen legs (Doomseer leggings)</p><p>the 8% of recast timers  combined with the ring of four winds  gives us 13% off our recast timers.  for stuff like our group ward  and our two emergency wards  this is huge.</p><p>and the final ability is a great utility  for the tank on pulls and in long fights with mana drains  I cast it on our coercer  it works wonders imo.  I'll even throw it on our Swashbuckler in the last 10-15% of a fight  mainly to inflate his parse  =)</p>

[Barruk]

Actually, I had the opposite realization - I went to AGI WIS over STR WIS, heh.  Not 100% sure I'm keeping it, but its worked well thus far.