Quote Originally Posted by Kitru View Post
Considering that IB ends up being overheal 90% of the time, yeah, it's wasted. The only time that IB is *ever* appreciably useful on content that *isn't* a complete joke is when it and all of the heals you get within the next GCD or two are without any overheal. Healing yourself for 2000 doesn't matter when you'd have been healed for all of the damage you just healed yourself for in the next GCD or two in the first place. And we're not even going to get into how it doesn't scale so high damage scenarios turn it into a joke.
You use IB after you get hit by something large. Any time IB has a non-zero amount of over-healing, you're using it wrong. You use it AFTER you get smacked down to 15% of your health, not before. If you have any overhealing from Inner Beast, just about ever, you're bad and should feel bad. That said, if your healers are able to get you to the point where you're providing overheal half a second after being reduced to 15-20% health then they don't need the healing bonus anyway, and more health NOW is still going to be better than a healing bonus you don't need.

As for high damage scenarios, there is no scenario in the game currently where the damage is both high enough and also survivable that using Inner Beast is a bad idea. Don't forget, 2000 is the minimum, this is what I get with just Maim and Storm's Eye. Either a crit or use of Berserk would give you a 3k heal and getting both is slightly more than 4k. Half your health in exchange for about 7% less healing? When could this possibly be a bad idea?