BB Vs. Purify/heal in BH59 (Drake and Glutt)

To be honest I am glad that new clerics have learnt how to IH and purify a tank. What I find more annoying is when clerics put up BB every two seconds because it is the 'safe' option. Sure both methods work and yes BB is overall safer for the whole squad as most DDs no longer know how to control agro. A lot of bosses can be done without BB and a cleric shouldn't be BBing just because it is 'less work'.

I'm a old cleric and i never used BB in BH59....
Wow people now BB even in BH59...
BH59 don't need BB.

Plus, there are bosses where you cannot maintain BB for it gets broken/interrupted.

Xx_BeLLa_xX, I am from Harshlands too. I have seen people use BB in BH51 and even BH39 if they could.

P.S. When I was learning the cleric ways, they taught us to IH/Purify whenever possible. It was only later on that I saw others use BB so much. So my experience is kind of backwards compared to the OP.

I know now cleric BB for everything, they are in squad of 10 they will still BB for one mob....

I leveled 2 clerics no power level, and i've done a lot of BH59 i never BB and was never asked to BB, the boss are not AOE why BB except if the cleric is lazy? When the boss don't AOE there's no reason to BB. (unless the boss in BH59 now AOE and i didn't know)

If that's the case, then yes, BB makes far more sense for you. No one's really saying that one way is obviously better than the other--the cleric who quit when you asked her to BB was obviously stuck in a rut. No one needs an inflexible healer.

I was never taught to BB at any bosses excepting certain ones in TT and FCC. IH is far more efficient, mana-wise. Throw in a Chromatic every now and then, and most AoEs will be fine. I've never had much trouble with Glut... though I know I have thrown BB up a couple times at wyvern in bh51.

My concern is that, when DDs see BB go up, they figure that aggro is obviously now a free-for-all, because they'll be fine if they steal, right? Sometimes, that's true, but you occasionally get the idiot who steals aggro, gets killed, and then forces you to drop BB to rez them. And this is while everyone else is still taking aoe damage, at that, forcing you to stack heals on everyone before you can even think of rezing, all while the DD who started it is typing REZ ME PLX, and you want to type back 'WAIT A FRCKING MINUTE' except you're too busy casting heals....

Yeah. That's happened to me a couple times during a BB.

I suppose I just prefer the greater control of heal-stacking tanks, purifying, and occasionally IHing melees or Chromaticing to keep everyone else's charms up. I find this style of healing more engaging, and less stressful than setting up BB and then sitting on my thumbs for the entire fight. If something goes wrong, BB is the last place I wanna be.

Again, it's a matter of personal preference or style. As long as the party stays healed, either manner works.

The only time I've even considered BB in there is at times where I've needed to run off for a minute or so and didn't want to setup a heal macro that might have failed me or the like.

IH + Purify for those bosses has always been the thing to do there up until the newer generation of BB everywhere and no sense of aggro control. Hell, when BH just came around, I'd ask the barbs to go human and have a ranged DD tank it just so those bosses would do nothing but use their DoT. Which wound up making healing disturbingly easy to the point where I was honestly able to DD more than I needed to heal.

In your situation, it's understandable why you'd prefer BB. Especially with the advent of sins and people who don't know how to control their aggro. However, most of the older generation (at least that I know of) aren't going to ask for BB and will actually end up asking why it's being used if they go in there and a cleric chooses to do so.

I'm sorry for your condition, but maybe you should think to play a other class (DD) that you can just use maccro, on some higher boss you cannot BB, ex:BH69 nob and pole you can't BB you absolutely need to IH & purify the tank and keep other alive, you might find it hard with your condition.

Some other place BB drop constantly and you don't have choice to keep the squad alive with other skills.

BB has two real purposes: to heal the other 5 people from the boss aoes, and to reduce hits that normally would 1-2 shot a player. Drake and Glut don't aoe, and their hits are quite week so there really is no point in bbing there. What does become a danger is their small hits plus stacked DoTs combining, which is why every 15 seconds or so the tank should be purified which you can't do while kicking up a heel in bb.

Other bosses, like Qianji or even Zimo have decently strong attacks and will combine them in this way:

physical.....physical.....physical.....physical , magical..... repeat.

It's that phys+ magic double attack that tends to plow right through squishies. If they have bloodpaint then your full IH stack may only account for a fraction of the heals they're getting. What they really need to survive is bb's damage reduction. Combine 50% damage reduction and their own paint heals and they should be fine, even without the actual heal of the bubble.

So Zimo, Ofo, Qianji I'd use bubble. Especially because aggro bounces and people die quickly. Glut and Drake I'd IH+purify and watch for aggro changes carefully.

PotatoHeadQR - Dreamweaver wrote: »

reasons for BB: aggro ping pong (59 can be tanked by anyone and DoTs are pretty weak for mages; psys can purify that anyway) (charm ticks saves)

I think people lvl 5x-6x are rarely charm theses day and a cleric using BB for the easy way waste the chance to get experience, cause on some higher boss you cannot BB and need to deal with the aggro switching to people, the sooner a cleric will deal with it without BB the sooner the cleric will be good. (check a a cleric who BB in 59 cry in bh69 where he need to keep squad all squad alive without BB)