Sield of Faith - When to use and can ACT help?

[ashen1973]

<p>I group regularly with my Templar, I dont raid, although would like to in the near future.</p><p>I have all of my 2nd void armour set, fabled epic, some nice instance jewellery etc...</p><p>I think I do a decent job of healing in group situations and can get through most instances with little trouble.</p><p>What I would like to do is increase my efficiency (maybe fit in a few attacking spells <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />) so I have been working on improving my heal rotation and situational casting.</p><p>One spell I think can be a waste of power in some situations but a huge help in others is Shield of Faith (wards arcane damage, so divine and mental).</p><p>Is there a good way to decide wether to use this spell 'on the fly' ?</p><p>I have used ACT to look at parses after instance runs and noted which encounters have a lot of arcane damage, is there a way to set up ACT to show the type of damage the group is taking in realtime?</p><p>I use ACT but am certainly no expert with it, i also have a G15 keyboard which I have set to display ACT numbers on the LD display, it would be very usefull if it could be set to show the damage-types here.</p>

[Enoa]

<p>I usually am running with 2 choker wearers even in MT group when raiding so I usually cast it prepull and then  whenever it's up. </p><p>As for ACT it helps a ton with figuring when to use this spell.   I'm unaware of any plug-in or functions that display a real-time warning of damage type... you could set up a custom trigger for .*mental damage but that would get really annoying really quickly.  Conversely ifyou had a second monitor you could run act on it and have the damage (inc) open and sorted by damage type.</p><p>Generally speaking... look at a new mobs buffs and you can usually figure out what class he is.   Different class types use different damage types.   YOu can anticipate most damage types just doing that.   When raiding and working a new mob... after each wipe look at all damage incomming and set timers to the important aoe's and effects.   Shield of Faith is a very powerful spell if used correctly.   I would recommend setting your own timers ... that way you know exactly how much time before next mental/arcane/ magic aoe and you can prepare.    The fights i top the heal parse over the defiler are usually fights with large magic,mental,divine aoe's.  </p>

[ashen1973]

<p><cite>Enoa@Kithicor wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I usually am running with 2 choker wearers even in MT group when raiding so I usually cast it prepull and then  whenever it's up. </p><p>As for ACT it helps a ton with figuring when to use this spell.   I'm unaware of any plug-in or functions that display a real-time warning of damage type... you could set up a custom trigger for .*mental damage but that would get really annoying really quickly.  Conversely ifyou had a second monitor you could run act on it and have the damage (inc) open and sorted by damage type.</p><p>Generally speaking... look at a new mobs buffs and you can usually figure out what class he is.   Different class types use different damage types.   YOu can anticipate most damage types just doing that.   When raiding and working a new mob... after each wipe look at all damage incomming and set timers to the important aoe's and effects.   Shield of Faith is a very powerful spell if used correctly.   I would recommend setting your own timers ... that way you know exactly how much time before next mental/arcane/ magic aoe and you can prepare.    The fights i top the heal parse over the defiler are usually fights with large magic,mental,divine aoe's.  </p></blockquote><p>Thanks for the reply.</p><p>I seldom run with any choker users, but when I do, i have been using SoF and found it very usefull then.</p><p>I think i will look at running ACT on a second monitor ( I may even toy with running it completely on my second computer, see if thats easy enough to set up)</p>

[Antryg Mistrose]

<p>Not having a whole lot of choker wearers in the guild I mainly use SoF for AoEs.</p><p>ACT has an AoE timer facility in it.</p><p>You can inspect the incoming damage and add timers, although most raid guilds would have filled this in with a list of all the AoEs.</p><p>I set up audible warnings for the ones SoF helps with (custom recorded text-to-speech sound file) - as a prompt of when to cast.  Nexona for example, and Maestro in SoH.</p>

[Arielle Nightshade]

<p>I cast it prepull and whenever it's up as well - except when the big AoE that's going to trash the group is incoming (and we know it due to ACT timers)...and of course it's the kind of damage we buff and cure.    Then I ward at about 5 seconds before its expected and am prepared to group cure.</p><p>I usually just have one choker wearer in my group, so I'm mostly using it for prevention of this kind of thing.</p>

[Lader]

<p>this wards choker wearers still? bc choker is focus dmg, supposed to be unmitigateable and unwardeable.</p>

[Cetara]

<p><cite>Lader wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>this wards choker wearers still? bc choker is focus dmg, supposed to be unmitigateable and unwardeable.</p></blockquote><p>From update notes last year: "Damage that can <strong>not</strong> be <strong>resisted</strong> or <strong>mitigated </strong>will now be referred to as "focus" damage..."</p><p>Focus damage can be warded.  Welcome to 10 months ago.</p>

[Arturoz]

<p>jebus dont say anything or you will have the defiler comunity up in arms again about their precious wards being used..... </p>

[Lader]

<p>quit getting [Removed for Content] bc one defiler was dumb. im levelling a templar and I play a defiler. I thought focus dmg wasnt wardeable since my shaman wards heal as well so i never noticed; thanks for the clarification.</p>