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http://rift.magelo.com/en/soultree#Bh0/XkGlayGEFkg/t8 -
This is your standard 61 point phys spec used for PvE
healing.
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Its set-up like this because the off-souls give you the highest Dex and Ap increase, you could put 5 points into Burning Rage of NB, to get an extra 2.5% damage from soul passives but the extra HP, Resistance and Armor is a nice touch too! You wouldn't use this spec if you were going to heal in pvp.
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Your healing will scale from your AP, so if you want to main spec heal, you're gonna want an AP gear set, to maximize your healing potential, but also keep in mind that you're not going to be able to heal every fight, as there are some fights where Phys just isn't viable.
Buffs
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Simultaneous Treatment
Preventive Medication
Supportive Care – Put it on the tank that you’re healing (swap if necessary)
Planebound Resilience - If you went with the RS off-soul.
Alternative Treatment – Toggle ability that allows our heals to hit 5 players.(Causes all combo point generating abilities to hit 5 friendly players, just reducing the healing/absorbs by 50%). Protip! Don’t forget to toggle it off when going back to tank healing! Also, remember it reduces energy regen by 5/s so be careful not to drain yourself!
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Abilities
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Builders -
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Causal Treatment – Awards 2 combo points and a nice sized heal This will be your main stationary spam button. – 1.5 second cast
Expectant Treatment – Instant cast – Shield – 6 second cd. You can use this preemptively or reactively, its down to personal preference. You can use it as a tank heal or a spot shield on a player taking damage. (I commonly use it as a tank shield, after causal treatment to create 5 combo points, but that can change depending on the situation)
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Urgent Care – Spot heal and 6 second cd.
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Active Treatment – Small heal, instant cast and no cd. Similar to healing flare on purifier. This will be one of the abilities you can use during movement phases.
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Finishers -
Massive Therapy – Large heal, 30 second cooldown.
Maintenance Therapy – Normal finisher – Heals for x amount and a hot afterwards. (hot = heal over time)
Pre-emptive Therapy – Shield Finisher <<< You should use this one.
Shields > Heals. Always. Becomes instant cast with the level 62 mastery Watch Over. Use Maintenance or Massive if your tank needs healing asap. Otherwise use this as your main finisher. Pre-apply it before the fight.
Group Therapy – Kinda easy to guess what this does. Heals the group! 10 player HoT. If you feel like being a nice healer and helping the group healer, then keep it up. Its fairly easy to maintain. The way Group Therapy works, is that it will hit 10 players with the lowest hp, so you might need to press it a few times if you want it to be on every player, but aoe healing isn't your job so only do it if you know the tank wont die in that period of you helping out the aoe healer.
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Cooldowns!
Life Insurance – Typical Defer Death ability – Gives a shield when first applied and if struck by a killing blow restores 50% of the targets HP.
Emergency Response – Restores health equal to 100% of your hp to the target and grants an absorb shield.
Biofeedback – Channeled heal + Damage Reduction (15%) - Deals damage with
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Intensive Care –All healing and Absorption abilities that are builders or finishers are increased by 50% (10 second duration)
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Planar Variation – Restores health equal to 50% of your maximum health each second, however for the first gcd, this wont tick, so if you're gonna use it as an oh-shit heal take that into consideration.
Most of these cd’s are to be used reactively, unless it’s a fight that you're comfortable healing and know when certain damage spikes are coming, then you can use some ofthem preemptively to save yourself some grief.
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Utility/Other
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Mass Detox - 10 person cleanse, 10 second cooldown
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Detoxification - Single Target Cleanse, no cooldown
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Viral Infection - Use this on the boss for dps.
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Shadow Shift - If you specced into RS.
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Adrenaline Shot - Restores 50 Energy - oGCD and has a 20 second cooldown. This is an important ability because Phys can get drained quite easily.
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Precise Diagnosis - Instantly awards 5 combo points. 20 second cooldown. oGCD.
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Healing Rotation!
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Healing will never have a "set" rotation, due to the amount of changes during the fight, e.g. switching to aoe healing, healing whilst moving, using healing cd's etc - But! For when you're standing still you can still, this can be your standard rotation, subject to change if cd's are required.
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- Make sure Supportive Care is up on your tank.
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Expectant Treatment - Causal Treatment - Causal Treatment - Finisher - Causal Treatment - Causal Treatment - Active Treatment - Finisher
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What Finisher do i use?
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This is completely up to you, if your tank is low and needs topping up, use Maintenance Healing, if he is relatively high, use Preemptive Therapy, and if he is really low, you can use Massive Therapy.
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Macros
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#show Detoxification
suppressmacrofailures
cast @group01 Detoxification
cast @group02 Detoxification
cast @group03 Detoxification
cast @group04 Detoxification
cast @group05 Detoxification
cast @group06 Detoxification
cast @group07 Detoxification
cast @group08 Detoxification
cast @group09 Detoxification
cast @group10 Detoxification
cast @group11 Detoxification
cast @group12 Detoxification
cast @group13 Detoxification
cast @group14 Detoxification
cast @group15 Detoxification
cast @group16 Detoxification
cast @group17 Detoxification
cast @group18 Detoxification
cast @group19 Detoxification
cast @group20 Detoxification
cast @self Detoxification
This is the only macro you need to use. If you want to you can use a brez macro so other healers know when you've used your res, as an example:
#show Kiss of Life
suppressmacrofailures
cast Kiss of Life
raid Battle Rez on %T because I love Ani
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Last few notes.
My main advice is to go into the guild dimension, or your own, and just parse away on a healing dummy, getting used to the general rotation, seeing how each ability acts, e.g. planar variation doesn't heal for an entire gcd, use it yourself and see, just get a feel for the spec.
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Another important ability I recommend taking into account, is Cognitive Enhancement. Cognitive Enhancement is a stacking buff from your healing builders that increase the next finisher by 6% per stack. Stacks up to 3 times (which is fine because you're going to be using 3 builders to get to 5 combo points almost all the time) However, it doesnt consume the stacks if used with Pre-emptive Therapy, so you're either going to use the stacks on Massive Therapy, or Maintenance Therapy.
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You dont gain stacks of Cognitive Enhancement if you use Precise Diagnosis, which is why doing Precise Diagnosis - Massive Therapy is a bad idea, as it loses 18% effectiveness. So, if you know a large amount of damage is about to come, and you have 3 stacks of Cognitive Enhancement, you can hold off on using a finisher, and then use Massive Therapy with the 18% increase.
You will gain more dps from using Viral Infection than you will trying to heal from Pandemic, Pandemic healing is really bad, and its dps is so low its not worth using.
That's all i can say about 61 Physician for now, Rogue healing in general is quite easy once you've had a little practice.
p.s. make sure you pre-apply shields to the tank!