Arielle Nightshade wrote:Meirril wrote:I've never been a raider, but I'm currious about raiding a bit. Who do they use to keep off tank groups up? Or do they even bother sticking healers in the off tank groups? I would think that wardens with our excellent group healing would be natural choices for melee DPS groups if not the MT/OT group?
Often it's MT group: Defiler, Templar, Warden OT group: Shaman, Cleric (type depends on who's available) - Furys in both the caster DPS group (for the INT buff) and also in the scout-ish melee group (again, INT buff and the help with poison procs and any spell damage).
So..7 healers. If they found need for 8 healers, Warden would go in the OT group, making it a kind of 2nd MT group in case the MT died. I think that even though we don't bring the INT buff to the caster group, we keep them alive a bit better. One could seriously argue that since you can't do much DPS while Dead..the INT buff isn't as important as heals.
But...they never argue that.../sigh.
I'd think the better argument for the int group would be: how much is that extra int helping?
I mean, seriously arn't the mages so far above the soft cap that the extra wis is helping their resists far more than the extra int is helping their DPS? Not to mention superior warden group healing. The extra int for scouts make sense though, since they generally arn't up to the soft cap.
That's just my opinion though. Maybe dead mages help the moral of the raid?