Quote Originally Posted by Leiloni View Post
These are the same WHM's that spam heals non stop when it's entirely unnecessary. I see them and just go full dps mode unless I'm really needed for something. It's like ok, if you're that OCD and/or afraid of people dying, (or maybe just bad), I'll let you go ahead and do that. I saw one with about 95% overheal. I've been doing a lot of trial roulette for my WHM's relic, I'm on Lights right now. So I'm seeing a lot of different healers. Most of them drive me nuts. I wonder if anyone else in the group even notices when healers play like that.
I'll call them paper cut healers. Good in that faceroll content "ok, if you want overheal I'll just stay in clerics, thanks". As a tank in a lower level its just something to deal with, sometimes they get the hint.


Quote Originally Posted by Leiloni View Post
As a follow up to this I've had a few AST/AST runs so far where the other healer did not want to go Noct spec. In one I think tank pulled before one of us could switch and this was A4 where I'd had a string of bad runs that night so I peaced out (I don't know why the tank thought that the best time to pull is when your two healers are busy figuring things out in chat and clearly not ready to go). I also had a trial with Dual AST where he refused to go Noct saying that our HoTs could stack after I told him they couldn't. At that point I intentionally stayed Diurnal spec and proceeded to overwrite his HOTs for the entire thing just to prove a point lol.

On the other side of that, I've encountered a number of AST's on my WHM that always go Noct spec when they see me. It drives me nuts that they're not in Diurnal but there's so many of them that just immediately go with it. Why? My WHM is only 56 and has been doing mostly level 50 content, so none of that requires a shield stance and Diurnal is just so much better.
Scholar has always been my sub-main and I don't mind using Noct when I can. Noct is still very good in many instances instead of two regen jobs plus it has the +5% healing potency. Like in Ravena EX you absolutely want a shield healer when possible to cover for vulnerability/DoT mistakes, or even Final Liberation.

Only one time in AST/AST where it bugged me the other one didn't want to go Noct was The Chrysalis. I already loaded in with Diurnal and that is always my way to say how I'm going to play, but they didn't stance until after the pull. Shield is good to have there for possible orb mistakes, before the AoE, and the Triple hard tank hits. It is true a lot of ASTs don't know regen doesn't stack. Noct isn't perfect by any means, it has it's use, can save a life in extreme content, and the healing potency bonus that I don't think some players really think about.