Hi all
First of all, I read the sticky about BS and need to think about it as I do not understand everything and have some difficulties to get all those informations together.
I leveled on myself and did not group at all as most of the guys in my guild were already 80 and the ones I met in the wild just sent me an invite about making a team without even a word. So, I never grouped with them.
Even if I planned to visit AoC world, I rush and used my offline points for the last 17 lvls.
Yesterday, while they knew I was too green for that, my guild kindly took me into T3 dungeon but I saw i was completely useless to them and really need to improve.
1) a POM was healing a group of tanks dealing with one boss. I went there to support him, got killed by a swip of his halberd 5 minutes later, and the POM kept on healing them without even noticing I was dead. Am I a really poor healing class/player or was he too greatly stuffed for me to compete?
2) my stuff is blue craft and I get some 2500/3500 hits when dealing with the "crawling bugs" popped by Thot Amon. In 2 pulses I am dead and wonder if things will get better with a better gear.
3) someone said that BS healing depended of the damages he dealt. I read the various description of the skills and combos but did not see any explanation about what he said.
4) on Ten Ton Hammer, I saw some Totems but did not find them in my pannels in game. Have they been cancelled? Same question for the manifestation Enfeeble.
5) "the sticky" talks about turning around the mob to land the last hit (the one who is the more efficient) on his back? How can you do it when it is crowded like hell with tanks and as many necro pets as can be generated?
6) I thought that I was a good player using "crushing armor" to help the the tanks/DPS hitting harder, while casting "Manifestation of Spirit" / "Manifestation of Forest" to either enhance their damages or lower the ones they took in order to heal them less.
Of course I fumbled with the commands, casted 1 combo then another one before the 1st landed because the first one took 3/10seconds to land or did not start at all (canceling it whe the first combo finally appeared), but obviously this is not as smart as I thought ...
7) "Manifestation of Regrowth" was also used but I am not sure that it is really usefull.
8) How to configure your video options? If I allow everything, I cannot play because of lag and because my screen is full of effects. So I decided to use "effects on me" ad it was much better. I could however see the green and blue healing while cast on the surrounding players/pet, but the blue/green heal disappeared quickly. Any reason for that? (see 9)
9) When you have 2 BS, is there one of them who prevails while casting "Regrowth" or "Blood Flow"? Do the spells stack or does the BS who casts them last, cancels the previously casted spells?
10) when you talk about having the combos on shortcuts, do you mean all the steps (start, hits, finisher) or just the starting blow?
11) I am running FDS, but some parts of the UI are too big.
Where can I modify them to have a smaller raid window, smaller casting bars, bigger buffs/debuffs for my target, smaller icons for the hitting sequence, ...
Thx for any answer and your patience while reading that.