5x PvE group best healer

[TheBigBB]

I say priest, especially because COH is an instant cast AOE heal. Druids can work if you play them more traditionally and use wild growth like you'd use COH, but it's not quite as good in a tight spot because it's still partially a HOT.

Read the Next Patch notes they are giving CoH a 6 second cool down, not a huge deal but a change for the Priest class

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patch...atchnotes.html

This is true, however the spell is a bit overpowered right now in some situations so I understand a cooldown. I'll have to see how I can work it out with COH+Prayer of Healing for healing the group.

EDIT: I stand by my claim of a priest being the best, because WILD GROWTH is also getting a 6 second cooldown, so it won't be any more powerful.

[JasonB87]

The only thing that's preventing me from starting this today is my pc specs. I'm running a 3ghz core 2 duo 2gb of ram and a geforce 8800gts. Do these specs sound like they would support 5 boxing.

[TheBigBB]

The only thing that's preventing me from starting this today is my pc specs. I'm running a 3ghz core 2 duo 2gb of ram and a geforce 8800gts. Do these specs sound like they would support 5 boxing.

In order to ensure no hardware lag with that computer, I would guess that you would need to avoid cities and use lowest possible settings, even on the main screen.

[JasonB87]

Yea I'm going to test it out tonight with some trial accounts. I'm assuming avoiding PiP would be good too. Any other suggestions that would affect performance? I'll be upgrading this system during the first week of January.

[TheBigBB]

Yea I'm going to test it out tonight with some trial accounts. I'm assuming avoiding PiP would be good too. Any other suggestions that would affect performance? I'll be upgrading this system during the first week of January.

You will be in a WORLD of pain if you try to 5 box in Dalaran with your computer, even at very low settings. I would recommend double the RAM at least, when you upgrade, though I've heard that XP won't use more than 3GB or so.

[JasonB87]

Yea I'm hoping current hardware will fair well leveling. As for my upgrade I'll be going to 8gb of ram, a 2.5 Ghz quad, a geforce x260, 64-bit vista and possibly 120gb ssd depending on prices in January.

[TheBigBB]

By the way, I'd like to point out that a glyph of Holy Nova will make this spell heal for 40% more, making it heal for only slightly less and cost slightly more mana than COH. So on your regular COH button you could stick a castsequence with COH and then Holy Novas on 6 second cooldown. You'd just have to maintain proximity, but with a boxer this usually goes without saying! You can also make COH heal an extra target with glyphs, and give Prayer of Healing a HOT component with your third glyph. I don't believe anyone can match the onslaught of mindless AOE healing this would all bring.

(I think the COH glyph is only really useful for raidboxers, so that wouldn't apply to 5 man teams)