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meen
11-04-2005, 08:37 AM
Heys

did any of u find it useful to go into catform and cower when u get healing aggro?

thx

Cenaurius
11-04-2005, 10:43 AM
i find cower useful when i am off-tanking something and want the main tank to be able to get aggro from the creature. i just shift out of bear and cower as he does his warrior thing; it works quickly and allows me to go back to healing.

Ndainye
11-04-2005, 05:11 PM
Cower definatly has it's uses with healing agro but it's situational.

The bads
Cower is single target only so it won't do you much good if you grab agro on more than one.
Cower will permantly reduce your agro but it won't remove all of your agro, so if you are the only person with agro on a mob cower won't do anything for you.
Cat form has much less protection than bear form with the same liabilities (no spells) so unless you know you are okay to not be healing others and you know that the mob will leave you and be regained by the tank you're better off either healing dealing with the hits and hoping your tank regains control quickly or going bear to soak up the damage better.

The Goods
Cower permantly reduces your agression vs a single target making it MUCH more powerful than a priests fade. Using Cower vs a boss mob in a long fight will allow you to heal more agressively.
Cower is good vs low hitting single mobs in a pack if you are healing during an aoe type battle and there's a loose mob pingponging cowering it off you will make it stick better to someone else (hopefully a tank).

Bovus
11-07-2005, 08:22 PM
If they are non-raid mobs, just warstomp (usually enough time for a good tank/offtank to pick em up). In raid, there isn't time to cat/cower (and pray it doesn't miss/resist) so I just Bear Form and hope for heals.

Ndainye
11-07-2005, 09:45 PM
The thing about cower in raids is to use it proactively against bosses to avoid heal agro. It's lets you heal more offensively than you might be able to do without it. We use it on certain bosses in BWL. And of course vs NEF when druid call goes out make sure you throw a cower in there before he fears ya.