I've noticed my shaman is letting group members die often and i'm not quite sure why, but seems like a couple things are prioritized over healing, even when in Heal loadout.
For example, i just watched my shaman who had 3 members in the group below 30% do a slow, cast panther on another group, and then healed when a team member went to 0%. Then panther'd another group (while I had a person in my own group at 20% health), then a person in my group died. This appears to be happening often.
Please review how i have my shaman setup and let me know how i can get my shaman to prioritize healing over Panther, or whatever i'm missing to make them heal when the actual heal thresholds are met.
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Please post in the correct location. You know there is an mq2shaman thread, please post mq2shaman questions there
It does prioritize healing, and it can't do stuff while doing other stuff, so if you're having issues due to overworking it, adjust what stuff you have it doing.
looking at your settings:
I'd suggest turning off single slow and single malo, if you're stretched super thin, turn off dots and xtar healing. I wouldn't have a solo shaman in that era responsible for life and death doing single malo, single slow, etc. they just don't have the toolkit to allow them to do ALL of those things.
re: Lioness line specifically (please use actual spell names and the line of spells that we call it in the plugin - I know you've already been asked to read the sticky before in other times we've talked about the plugins - but considering you didn't post in the shaman thread and are just saying "panther", please do so in the future. - I can *guess* what you're saying, but then i have to ask you to help me help you.
this isn't going to be an argument or anything less than you needing help and me helping you - but you please, you have to use *actual spell names* or *actual spell grouping names and the level you are*
we could be talking about Talisman of the Panther or Spirit of the Panther - fortunately, there are only 2 spells that we could be talking about and they're in the same spell line (Lioness), but even in this instance, spirit and talisman are
different
spirit is a single target (3 second cast time) and talisman is the target group (7.5 second cast time), the way they operate is different, and to be able to determine and perhaps test what you're talking about i have to be able to know what you're talking about specifically.
shammy checks epic click usage, our entire healing section, sending pet, then lioness. in that era, with those spells and the balance of all the things a shammy does in that era, i'd suggest not having the shaman be overworked. A lot can happen in 3 second cast time over several people / 7.5 second cast time (it would check the entire heal section before casting a new one).
if when it checks to heal, your gems are still on cooldown/recovery (timing) and then they come back right when it checks something else - that is just coincidence and timing - again overworked. We're not waiting on checking other things, we're continually checking stuff. We do our entire heal section every 1/2 second
Reviewing the code, it is how it is intended to be, I could gate lioness usage behind a timer - but i don't really want to do that either - the whole problem with lioness line (which you later get dissidentroar line) is exactly that problem - longish cast time, requires you to cast on a bunch of people, but also a very high priority/frequency
I don't intend on having the option to turn off lioness usage - you could always byos or byos custom and not use lioness to solve your situation.
hope that helps