[MrDiz]

Sermon is probably my basic heal. I keep that up in most groups permanantly. With mana regen being so good I can cast it when the tanks says "Pulling" and it will hit before he aggroes. By the time he is back a few secs later im full again cos im still in non-combat regen. Ill stack with BoV at the beginning for the fight until mob is debuffed or multiples mezzed, but then drop back to just sermon. When I start using combat healing and Arch healing it means we bit off more than we could chew. Reactives are just way more power efficient and if done well a better way to avoid aggro.The reasons for using Sermon rather than BoV as your base reactive are as follows:1) You can cast even when the tank in far away and out of sight. This means if he takes 30 secs to find a mob you can still have the reactive on him before you join the fight and become open to aggro.2) If a mob breaks off tank you are a little less stressed about keeping the mage alive. It heals where it is needed.3) You can keep this spell up permanantly during non-combat as you will hit full power before it runs out. This means if you get an unexpected spawn or roamer your heals hit instantly. Gives you a good rep for being ready at all times. I cant count the number of mages and druids that Ive saved cos I had Sermon up whilst we were running to a new spawn site and got a pickup aggro from a passing giant It does have a down side tho:1) Cast time, you need to know when to cast it to keep it on at all times efficiently.So far I have never had a group tell me not to use them. But then I usually end fights with a lot more power than the rest of the group so I challenge them to accuse me of inefficiency