Glyph of FoL

[meluda]

I originally was very skeptical of this glyph since it did remove the spamability of our most efficient heal, but for the sake of being thorough, i ran the math on it to comfirm my hypothsis. Heres what i came up with:

1) The HoT is directly and entirely based on the efficiency of the FoL heal. Thus, it can not be used preemptively( the main strength of HOTs).

2) It is not .50 (i.e. 50% initial) + 1.4 (i.e. 140% HoT effect) = 1.9x normal FoL --but-- .5 + .5(1.4) = 1.2x normal FoL. Total numbers (non-crit) are ~2600 compared to ~3050 @ 1300 spell power.

3) A Glyphed FoL spam will result in only ~59% of the healing in a normal FoL spam.

I.e. 1.0 (100%) regular FoL compared to .5 [initial Glyphed FoL heal] + (.5)(1.4)(.25)(.50) [the last 2 represent a half tick per FoL which is all that can be gained] = .5875 = ~59%

This pretty much shows that the glyph is counterproductive for most healing duties including that of raid healing(why is a paladin assigned to this anyway?).

Thank you,
Mel out

[centaurius]

God you are insane, thats a lotta math to figure a heal HA

[Kevin]

Don't knock the number crunchers Tony... they make it easier for the rest of us

[centaurius]

Naw I just find it easier to tell people they are nuts than admit I am lazy

[Snowmane]

yeah, I figured something similar during that post patch kara.


HoT's = boring
Spam healing = great fun

Even though I knew I had a hot, I couldn't stop myself spam healing anyway. Glyph was fun, but had to go sadly =(

[Kenny]

yeah me and another druid number crunched the Healing Touch glyph, and the rejuv glyph... with different spellpowers.

btw Beastlords.... WTF WHEN DID YOUR FUCKING PETS BECOME INSANELY POWERFULLLLLL

one of our hunters had their pet Tank Gruul and one of the adds during teh Kael event in TK.... i mean holy hell... and the other druid in the raid who did not have the healing touch glyph landed a 15,000 crit heal on his pet.. while me with the glyph was landing 9k's.... HT for me is a 1.38 sec cast doing betweeen 2-4k normal 5-6kish crits since i have the glyph its faster but 50% less healing...

also they still need to improve the holy paladins tree's they got nerfed way to much i think they need to give back illumination or something at least.