I'm afraid I've been somewhat humbled.As a 70 Inquisitor, fairly new to the class (Started in February with PvP - a crash course in inquisition, and I think I aced it), and 50AA (Int line, 8pts in spell cast reduction, 1 in final, and sta line, down to crit heals), I just today bought the last adept III I needed to complete my collection (all spells adept III or higher). I have 14 Master Is, 1 Master II... a (as of today as well) [Removed for Content] out ride, and some decent, if not splendid, gear (Mark of Awakening, Godking Sceptre, Hool'oh hat, etc). I was feeling 'king-of-the-world', wandering around town, and my connection, for once, wasn't lagging. I was ready to do something amazing on the little lab-clearing run (We've had *abysmal* luck with relic drops. 8 runs no drops, of the last 9).Our only two healers present, myself and a Defiler (70, some 42 AA, 2 masters, 2 adept IIIs (wards), and a sceptre/awakening/relicbp). The parser comes up... and we're both what I would consider excellent healers. He's finally got a few new tricks he wants to show off aa wise as well... so I'm looking forward to the first few parses. Well, despite my chain casting (mana is never a poblem) of spells in what I deem the 'right' order (Preheals, Obedience master, Convict master, (occasionally debase master), fanatical vengeance adept III, droag master's, compelled repentance (depending on mob) master II, (somtimes HO starter), affliction master, flames adept... ) and careful timing of my fanaticism with bard cacaphony (as well as my beautiful critting great maul), as well as diving recovery with debilitate... but no matter how I toy around with my spells, I will consistantly come up behind the Defiler for dps. This suprised me quite a bit... but it turns out his pet is cranking out some 160+ dps, much to my chagrin. I guess it's really benefiting from the Mt buffs - cacaphony, my fanaticism etc. With even DPS, he outheals me about four-fold. Sure, he's benefiting from my debuffs/divine recovery/fanaticisim more than I am from his spells... but still.Of course, I can't really win the heal battles - not only are they more draining on the manapool, but the only way I can every parse numbers like his are when I'm healing people that don't need to be healed, just for the extra numbers... and he'll tripple my damage in such cases. A large part of that is due to the way wards soak up damage 'first', and therefore steal my chance to heal, even though the heals might be up - but it still leaves me doing alot less.Now don't get me wrong - I enjoy my class and I realize parses tell only a part of the story, and I was probably doing a greater part of the curing (it's lab, ya know), as well I should be (thanks to convert), and debuffing more (although I wouldn't consider my debuffs superior to a defilers', I know I use mine more than he does) Sure, I wish verdict dealt parseable damage too.. but - I still feel that the gap between our two classes in raiding situations is... well... large. Sure, my Master I auras help around a fair bit, but he can make similar arguments about portent, his str buffs.... the list goes on.The obvious question - is there something I'm doing wrong? I can't think of anything... but who knows. Maybe there's a trick I'm missing? Or can I really expect - in raid situations - to be this far outclassed by someone out-spelled, even-geared, and even-skilled as myself. If not, where and when does it change? I figured Lab was a good test - a 9 man setup where the lines between 'raid mob' and 'exp mob' somewhat blur, and cures/debuffs pick up importance over standard exp mobs. In addition, because the mobs are multiple, my reactives tend to do better than some of the other raid encounters.(It's not that none of this has every struck me before - but it's that I know that I'm at one of my true peaks now - a height of my power, as it were, and I'm beginning to see just how 'high' that height actually is)
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For completedness sake, a list of my masters:Debuffs: Convict, Forced Obedience, DebaseHeals: Fanatical Healing, Suffering PenanceDamage: Affliction, Compelled repentance (master II), Heretic's DestinyBuffs: Pious, Act of Conviction, Consecrated AuraOther: Detain, Absolution, Disorientation
Message Edited by Istaril on 06-19-2006 03:36 PM