- Seller
- #2,761
Sorry to hear about your woes.@Sic,
As someone with a level 125 shaman equipped with maxed AAs and T1/T2 group gear, I’ve noticed significant issues when relying on a shaman as the primary healer at lower levels! The role of an MQ2Shaman healer becomes exceeding problematic during the leveling process, particularly between levels 50 and 80.
When setting the plugin to "Loadout: Heal," its internal spell prioritization loop often neglects healing during combat!!! Healing spells are only cast after all others such as debuffs and buffs are completed. This leaves designated primary tanks with little to no healing support during combat, regardless of loadout configuration, with up to 99% of instances lacking sufficient heals. The only way to currently address this is by resorting to BYOS and BOYSCustom settings, which allow users to override and remove non-healing spells to prioritize healing spells.
For instance, the plugin frequently executes a sequence of debuffs (e.g., slow and cripple) and maul proc buffs before casting a single heal. This often leads to situations where the tank's health drops to 10-20%, and the plugin continues its buff/debuff routines instead of prioritizing healing. As a result, tanks frequently die before receiving a single heal support spell.
Proposed Solution: When shaman (or druid) plugins are configured with "Loadout: Healing," healing should become the highest priority!!! The plugin should adhere strictly to the healing percentages provided in its settings, ensuring that all other actions (buffs, debuffs, etc.) are secondary to maintaining the tank’s health.
I'm happy with the priority, shaman wasn't/isnt designed as a solo healer in that level of the game, and thus the plugin is designed with that in mind. Approaching that level with the same "solo heal" approach is going to bite you in the butt, they just don't have the toolkit to do that with the same expectations as "modern" shaman does. they really don't come into the "modern" design of their class until 101+ (multiple reckless, dicho/dissi, etc.
I'd suggest not using slow, cripple, etc, so you can byos/byos-custom so you can focus solely on healing as you mentioned. You're stretching the class, so byos/byos-custom can accomplish that.
As I'm sure you know, pre reckless their heals aren't super amazing either.
It > is < a struggle.
We can all imagine "shaman has to crank heals because it never slows/cripples/debuffs and my tank is getting rocked". It becomes a "rob peter to pay Paul" situation.





I appreciate you letting me know.



