tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8262938438589544870.post2780162494851314958..comments2018-11-06T08:01:20.420-08:00Comments on Holy Word: Delicious: The Case Of Haste v. CritMinstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12065427413307217086noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8262938438589544870.post-62818699186183804742011-08-05T16:59:48.118-07:002011-08-05T16:59:48.118-07:00Tank healing resto shamsns aren't that uncommo...Tank healing resto shamsns aren't that uncommon. And it's actually more generally applicable to holy paladins who specialize in tank healing (also not uncommon) and resto druids who do a lot of single-target healing (from what I've read on EJ, as I haven't raided with a druid personally). I just chose to exclude them because both druids and paladins *can* realize great benefit from haste in ways that my post isn't meant to address.<br /><br />The thing is, it doesn't require "long periods of downtime" to devalue haste. As soon as you stop casting for even a second, you massively devalue haste. Haste only shows a throughput gain (aside from HoTs) if you chain cast. Any stoppage of casting and all you got from haste was a long period of not healing.<br /><br />As to your second point, about a heal that doesn't land in time, the logic can be used in favor of any stat. Had the healer crit on the previous heal, that extra healing may have allowed the tank to survive one more hit. A similar type of argument can be constructed for mastery but since the effect of mastery differs from spec to spec, it's not possible to construct one generalized one like for haste and crit.<br /><br />As I wrote, my post is not to argue that haste is useless, even outside its effect on HoTs. In an infinite mana environment, haste is the king of secondary stats by a large margin. So, depending on how you play and how your mana expenditures play out over a fight, haste can be very valuable.Minstrelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065427413307217086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8262938438589544870.post-84037010463173211222011-08-05T16:29:57.387-07:002011-08-05T16:29:57.387-07:00I feel like when you need to have a disclaimer to ...I feel like when you need to have a disclaimer to the effect of "This only affects my specific spec and maybe this other spec, sorta, if they heal in this exact way", then maybe you'd be better off framing the entire post as "Why Disco Priests are Special Flowers When it Comes to Haste". :P<br /><br />Otherwise, you're probably right. There may be other stats that give you more throughput overall, if you're a healer that relies primarily/solely on direct heals and you have long periods of downtime. However, don't discount the reduced casting time during moments of intense healing so easily. How many times do we complain that someone dies *just* before a heal lands? Maybe with higher values of haste that heal would have landed and saved the day. I mean, a crit does 0 healing if it doesn't land.Khizzarahttp://blogofthetreant.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com