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Nystali
Purpose: Heals the target of your Beacon the effective amount healed by your healing spells of any party members in range of that target. In short, you can heal two people at once.
Step 1: Cast Beacon on the tank just before combat (casting just as the tank starts gathering aggro could produce enough threat to accidentally pull some mobs on you, so be careful).
Step 2a: Heal the tank if nobody else is taking damage.
Step 2b: Heal someone who has taken a chunk of damage and watch as the effective healing is transferred to the tank as well.
Step 3: Make sure to keep an eye on Beacon's one minute duration for fights that are a little long. Refresh when necessary. (This is the hardest step to keep track of in that you waste mana if you refresh too soon or could end up healing dps but not the tank if you let the beacon expire)
Repeat steps 2a-b and 3 during the fight.
Step 4: You win.
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I've read about some people who cast Beacon on DPS or themselves. That is a complete and utter waste of the spell. You have at the very least 3 DPS to keep track of. If you have a fight that where DPS is taking damage that needs to be healed, it is very likely that all 3 of them and likely yourself as well are getting damage. The result of this is that you will keep one DPS up as you heal the tank but then when you have to heal up yourself or any of the DPS it is as if you don't have beacon cast at all, which is a waste of its mana cost. In addition, while healing these non-tanks, your tank is losing life and can potentially die.
Beacon was given to paladins because we have traditionally been very weak in instances where there is a lot of damage going all around the party. In the past we would have to take a chance that the tank could last a few seconds as we healed up the rest of the party or risk slowly losing the entire party in trying to keep the tank up. By putting a Beacon on a DPS, you are essentially putting yourself back into pre-WotLK healing abilities when we were less effective.
I tanked heroic VH for a healadin that cast Beacon on himself once. We got through, but it was painful. On the water boss, I died because he was so busy healing the dps as we got launched everywhere. Thankfully we got through enough of the fight that the one or two dps left standing were able to finish him off.
The only time I've found it useful to beacon someone other than the tank was during Zul'jin's eagle phase where healers can kill themselves if they try to keep the group alive. If you beacon yourself and cast your heals on anyone getting fairly low, you don't have to worry about the casting penalty.
Other than a scenario like this, the tank is going to be the one taking the constant damage. Any heal that doesn't go to the tank is a risk that you will lose the tank and wipe. Therefore...
Beacon the
TANK!
Post by
11berto11
Beacon the
TANK!
Casting Beacon on yourself is only useful (imo) if the tank dies and everyone is taking damage. You just cast Beacon on yourself and spam heal everyone else. Generally this would be a wipe, but I've been able to pull it off more than a few times. But yeah if the tank is alive, always Beacon the tank.
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Proky
i heard that beacon of light will heal even if you overheal your first target
something like you heal dps for 5000 and overheal him for 1000 and now beacon of light will heal for 4000 only, but after patch it will heal for 5000
i only heard it :)
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Nystali
Altho throwing beacon on the main tank is usually the best idea, sometimes its better to throw it on someone else. You wanna throw the beacon on the person who is taking the 2nd most damage and heal the person who is taking the most damage because if u put beacon on the person who is taking the most damage in a raid and start healing the person who is taking less damage your going to heal them up faster until your overhealing and then no healing will be going to your beacon who is taking more damage. But when then person taking the 2nd highest damage has beacon and your healing the person with the highest damage then you will keep both of them topped off (Im writing this as a pally healer who is almost always the only healer on MT and OT while a resto shammy takes care of raid)
Raid situations are a little different than 5 mans. In this case you are still putting Beacon on a tank so the mantra holds true. If you are putting beacon on one of the dps though what happens if you have to heal another dps? You are healing two dps at once and ignoring the tank's constantly draining health?
I don't think you were saying to potentially put it on DPS, but I just wanted to put this out there so there is no confusion.
As an example of what you were saying though, on the Patchwerk fight, I put my Beacon on the main tank (who is taking less damage overall) and healing the hateful strike tank. Over the course of the fight using this method, I find that main tank's life to almost always be full. Unless of course I fail and forget to refresh beacon on the MT.
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Nystali
If your doing a lot of group healing, then throwing Beacon on the tank is a good idea. If your going to be mainly healing the one target, and there is a decent amount of damage being sent elsewhere, Beacon is better on someone other than your target of course.
This is to the OP and anyone else curious about Beacon (not to Alathorn):
If you are familiar with a pull or boss fight and know for certain that there is likely to be little to no group damage you have to keep track of, then you can forgo using Beacon all together and save that extra 1k+ of mana for the next pull.
If you are uncertain about an encounter, always beacon the tank and adjust from there as you learn.
Post by
chrisronline
PvE: Beacon a Tank. If a DPS is taking damage constantly, just heal them and the tank will get free heals.
PvP: Beacon yourself! Really ^&*!es people off in BGs when you're healing other people and staying up yourself
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