Quote Originally Posted by 'puppychow',index.php?page=Thread&postID=187048#po st187048
what boss is killing you via curses/poisons/diseases? As said above if you run with shamans healing stream totems are a must, and you should drop poison/disease totems on any bosses that do that (honestly they are very far and few between -- Anub'Arak and last boss of Drak'Tharon is the only one I can think of).

Positioning tends to be more important and having buttons to heal each person independently (or group heal) -- for example, in CoT Malganis will wipe your group if you stack your DPS up, instead you want to spread them out in a semi circle with the tank in the middle, and keep grounding totems always down. Or 3d boss in Halls of Lightning, same thing spread out the team in the room before so only one person takes static charges at a time.
Some minor corrections here. A poison cleansing totem is very useful for Anub'Arak, correct. For the last boss of Drak'Tharon (Prophet Tharon'ja), there's nothing to cure though. He drops puddles of toxic stuff that cause nature damage to anyone standing in them though - nature resistance totem is very useful here.

For Mal'Ganis, DPS is fine to be stacked up and grounding totems to my knowledge don't do anything useful. The boss does have a frontal cone attack (Carrion Swarm) so he does need to be pointed away from the rest of the group, however. He frequently lays a nasty 8-9K attack (Mind Blast) on a random non-tank party member that will 2-shot them if they get hit again; with healing stream totems * 4 you can pretty safely ignore this, but with a mixed team you'll want to spot heal the person who gets hit with this.


To the OP, I agree with what others have said in that there's not really many/any heroic fights where dispelling/curing is strictly required. I don't personally have anyone who can cure curses or dispell magic, for instance. So I don't use decursive. I have seen some posts here that people are using it to good effect. A pally tank would be ideal for this really.