Next thought for the day: Rotation

I was trolling along today when I came across mention of elitistjerks.com . I realized I'd never been there, and being elitist myself, I stopped by to see what it's all about. Overall, it looks pretty good. It's hard to dispute which gear has better stats, etc. But there's quite a bit of number crunching and theories about how everything should work in a perfect world, when all luck is on your side, and all the stars align. Unfortunately, that's rarely the case for me.

Back on track -- the first thing that caught my eye when I visited the Restoration Shaman thread was in great big letters, "Healing Rotations". After wiping the spit-take from the screen, I questioned just how elitist they really were if they advocate a "rotation".

Here's the secret for healers (and it's not much of a secret) -- there is no rotation. The job of a healer is to use every tool available to them when the situation calls for it. This is even more so for someone who's raid healing, something a shaman does often. If you take the attitude of "this is my rotation, do not deviate," you're going to using heals and mana where it's not needed, and missing the heals that are.

I see a lot of people who think "I must chain heal, I must chain heal" and seem to forget they've got other heals to work with. I also see a lot of people who say "healing wave is not even on my action bar." This too is wrong, as there may be times you need that large, predictable heal.

That is all I have to say on the matter. elitistjerks.com's (unintentional, I hope) advocacy of "Healing Rotations" offends me, I am better than that.