Avesther
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The priest in my group just said, lightwell is up. What is a lightwell?
Lightwell can be best described as an alternative yet similar to a bandage dispenser. When you need a heal and don't suspect you will get one, you can go to the lightwell, right click on it and get a heal over time.
Hey thats cool. How long does it last?
The lightwell stays up for three minutes or 5 charges. Once three minutes is up or the 5th charge is used, it disappears.
When it disappears, can a priest put another one up?
Not right away. Lightwell is on a 6 minute cooldown timer. Once it is up, they can't put another one up for 6 minutes.
I just clicked on it and nothing happened. What should I do?
You have to be smart about using the lightwell and analyse what happened when you used it. First, it is a heal over time and the first tick doesn't happen until a full two seconds after you use it. So look for a buff that indicates that you are under the lightwells affect. Secondly, the heal itself is like a bandage in that it breaks on damage. So don't use it in the middle of an AOE damage affect or while you have a DOT debuff on you.
A strategic priest will place the lightwell out of line of sight of any AoE damage affects to help minimize that risk.
It seems priests put these up so they don't have to heal DPS. Thats abit unfair, they should be healing me, thats their job, not me worring about this lightwell thing.
You are correct nearly on every point. Priests and other healers, are fully aware of your health bar, your mana bar, where everybody is during the fight, who has what debuff so they can cleanse, who has and who hasn't bandaged, plus they keep tabs on their own health and mana. Taking care of yourself a bit here and there takes alot of strain of your healers.
The lightwell talent is very deep in the holy tree. Often to get it, priests have to sacrifice either additional mana (via mental strength) or mana regen (via divine spirit). The lightwell represents upto 5 heals costing between 550 and 700 mana each or an average of 3125 mana when its used properly. Considering you need the priests mana to last as long as the fight to gaurantee success, relieving 1/3 of their mana is considered a very good thing.
Can I use lightwell and bandage at the same time?
Yes you can! This can generate for you alot of healing in 8 seconds, especially if you have a renew and\or a rejuv on you. Plus, taking the time out to properly use a lightwell and bandage will help reduce your position on the threat list of the boss or mobs you are fighting. Again, further reducing stress on healers.
I'm a pally, shaman or a druid healer, and the priest in the group put up a lightwell, what should I do?
Unless absolutely necessary, don't directly heal somebody using the lightwell. If you have a HOT, use it on them to make Heal over times more effective on them. Directly healing somebody using a lightwell reduces the lightwells effectiveness and wastes your mana.
I see some forums refer to something as LOLwell, what is that?
They are refering to a lightwell. In the priest community, lightwell is commonly referred to LOLwell because the limitations on it are laughable. The healing it does is set and is not affect by +healing, it takes 6 seconds to take full affect, it heals less then a bandage, its cooldown timer is insanly high, there is no way to tell how many charges are left, you can abuse lightwell by right clicking on it 5 times in 3 seconds to use up all the charges, it breaks on damage.
Seeing as you put up these FAQs for lightwell, are you (Avesther) planning on speccing into it?
I intend to spec Avesther 20 disc \ 41 holy picking up both lightwell and circle of healing. I'll be giving up a ton of DPS so solo grinding and quest grinding will become non-existant. This isn't a problem seeing as Avesther seems to have completed every solo-able quest in the game. Bannard will become her farmer.
Lightwell can be best described as an alternative yet similar to a bandage dispenser. When you need a heal and don't suspect you will get one, you can go to the lightwell, right click on it and get a heal over time.
Hey thats cool. How long does it last?
The lightwell stays up for three minutes or 5 charges. Once three minutes is up or the 5th charge is used, it disappears.
When it disappears, can a priest put another one up?
Not right away. Lightwell is on a 6 minute cooldown timer. Once it is up, they can't put another one up for 6 minutes.
I just clicked on it and nothing happened. What should I do?
You have to be smart about using the lightwell and analyse what happened when you used it. First, it is a heal over time and the first tick doesn't happen until a full two seconds after you use it. So look for a buff that indicates that you are under the lightwells affect. Secondly, the heal itself is like a bandage in that it breaks on damage. So don't use it in the middle of an AOE damage affect or while you have a DOT debuff on you.
A strategic priest will place the lightwell out of line of sight of any AoE damage affects to help minimize that risk.
It seems priests put these up so they don't have to heal DPS. Thats abit unfair, they should be healing me, thats their job, not me worring about this lightwell thing.
You are correct nearly on every point. Priests and other healers, are fully aware of your health bar, your mana bar, where everybody is during the fight, who has what debuff so they can cleanse, who has and who hasn't bandaged, plus they keep tabs on their own health and mana. Taking care of yourself a bit here and there takes alot of strain of your healers.
The lightwell talent is very deep in the holy tree. Often to get it, priests have to sacrifice either additional mana (via mental strength) or mana regen (via divine spirit). The lightwell represents upto 5 heals costing between 550 and 700 mana each or an average of 3125 mana when its used properly. Considering you need the priests mana to last as long as the fight to gaurantee success, relieving 1/3 of their mana is considered a very good thing.
Can I use lightwell and bandage at the same time?
Yes you can! This can generate for you alot of healing in 8 seconds, especially if you have a renew and\or a rejuv on you. Plus, taking the time out to properly use a lightwell and bandage will help reduce your position on the threat list of the boss or mobs you are fighting. Again, further reducing stress on healers.
I'm a pally, shaman or a druid healer, and the priest in the group put up a lightwell, what should I do?
Unless absolutely necessary, don't directly heal somebody using the lightwell. If you have a HOT, use it on them to make Heal over times more effective on them. Directly healing somebody using a lightwell reduces the lightwells effectiveness and wastes your mana.
I see some forums refer to something as LOLwell, what is that?
They are refering to a lightwell. In the priest community, lightwell is commonly referred to LOLwell because the limitations on it are laughable. The healing it does is set and is not affect by +healing, it takes 6 seconds to take full affect, it heals less then a bandage, its cooldown timer is insanly high, there is no way to tell how many charges are left, you can abuse lightwell by right clicking on it 5 times in 3 seconds to use up all the charges, it breaks on damage.
Seeing as you put up these FAQs for lightwell, are you (Avesther) planning on speccing into it?
I intend to spec Avesther 20 disc \ 41 holy picking up both lightwell and circle of healing. I'll be giving up a ton of DPS so solo grinding and quest grinding will become non-existant. This isn't a problem seeing as Avesther seems to have completed every solo-able quest in the game. Bannard will become her farmer.