Bodyguard raid heals in 2 0

[tylorg]

Whatsup all! I havnt played since 1.2 and was raid healing all endgame raids on my 50 merc and enjoying it. At that time single target heals were amazing, while aoe was a bit lackluster, and made even harder at the heat cost patch. (But was still doable, not as good as sorc duh!). I am wondering with the changes in 2.0 if the aoe heals have gotten any improvements? Plan on returning soon and I read they got a pretty swell aoe heal boost. And curious if the heals are actually improved for aoe or just looked so on patch notes? Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Sry if question is nooby or if I'm missing a previous update, as stated above I havnt played in about a year.

-Tylorg

[Omophorus]

There's a new talent that makes Kolto Missile drop a puddle where it lands, and an unlimited number of targets standing in the puddle get a moderate HOT for 3 seconds.

 

It's decent, and significantly helps raid healing, but it is not as good as the Sorc puddle.

 

All 3 healers are in a pretty good place in 2.0, honestly, and any of the 3 is an entirely able raid healer. Merc probably still suffers from the overall weakest AoE healing, but not by a horrific margin (and now even DPS Mercs get Kolto Missile, so they can add some spot AoE healing even spec'd DPS).

[Cody-licious]

Bear in mind, healing in an Op is a team effort, with at least 1 other person -- you don't have to solo heal all other 7 people yourself (or at least, I hope not). More often than not, the other healer will be either a Sorc or Operative, so the combined effect of both your healing will be more than sufficient.

 

If you're looking at solo heals in a HM FP scenario, then as the first reply said, all healing classes are more than capable of coping with current content difficulty level.