What's the normal strategy for group-healing?

[aristarchus1000]

Use superior ardor clickies, they are cheap, and give you +75% rather than only +50% from a potency, and you don't have to keep it in your hand.

Potency is still useful for when you are solo kiting with blade barriers though.

[grodon9999]

Torg and con-op will be nice but this little bugger will have close to a 70 AC so he's not going to get hit that much.

So far so good, picked up a Superior Potency Dagger cheap. i've been a bit of a healz-nazi telling people "Mass heals on X, stand near him or don't get healed." Burn a few scrolls here and there when on cooldown for spots. let a few zergers die and it keeps them under control, you just have to keep your pimp-hand strong.

[grodon9999]

Use superior ardor clickies, they are cheap, and give you +75% rather than only +50% from a potency, and you don't have to keep it in your hand.

Nice, I'll be on the hunt in the AH.

Potency is still useful for when you are solo kiting with blade barriers though.

I took empowered healing instead of empower. I've got maximize, with the potency dagger and maximize the most I've seen in BB damage was like 160-170ish. it's okay.

[gwlech]

Yes, you will eventually need a sup pot6 kama, and yes, you will likely pay out the <insert orifice here>

Not really, He can easily just use a cheap club until he can get one of the Sup Pot 6 necks from Shavarath. If you are going to melee some, its best to keep your hands free for real weapons, and not casting ones anyway.

[Polarkin]

Not really, He can easily just use a cheap club until he can get one of the Sup Pot 6 necks from Shavarath. If you are going to melee some, its best to keep your hands free for real weapons, and not casting ones anyway.

That certainly is an option.

From my personal experience when I was soloing amrath quests on n/h/e (Ok, i did invis a hireling for the stupid force lever in genesis so not technically solo) I wanted the maximum opportunities for mana regeneration (Con/Op + Torc) and maximum BB damage (Sup Pot6 kama) and AC/spell DC's (centered water stance) without worrying about swapping out one item for another and going in and out of monk stance with 3-20 orthons/devils/tieflings/trogs either 1 step behind me (circular bb kiting) or about to get a swing at me (back-and-forth kiting in stupid narrow sins hallways).

I don't melee to whittle down mobs that voluntarily kill themselves on my BB's so my melee focus is almost entirely on casters and archers. When I charge into a room/area that has 3-4 melee mobs, 1-3 casters, and 1-3 archers I do immediately switch to my dual GS kama's and kill the casters regardless of the possible beating I'll get from the other mobs. Then i swap back to my gs + icy burst sup pot6 kama combo and take down the melee with my bb's. I leave the archers until last as they are essentially free mana while i kill everything else.

I'm not saying my way is the best way, the right way, or the wrong way. I tend to be a min/max type player and my way is what I have found to maximize my abilities in my preferred playstyle. I know the OP and have grouped with his exploiter and his other ranger on a number of occasions. So I have a limited amount of insight as to how he plays in game. My recommendations in this post were specific to my perspective of his general playstyle. Who knows, I could be completely wrong about his playstyle from the dozen or two times we've grouped or raided together.. we aren't BFF's in game, just passing acquaintances.

[grodon9999]

That certainly is an option.

From my personal experience when I was soloing amrath quests on n/h/e (Ok, i did invis a hireling for the stupid force lever in genesis so not technically solo) I wanted the maximum opportunities for mana regeneration (Con/Op + Torc) and maximum BB damage (Sup Pot6 kama) and AC/spell DC's (centered water stance) without worrying about swapping out one item for another and going in and out of monk stance with 3-20 orthons/devils/tieflings/trogs either 1 step behind me (circular bb kiting) or about to get a swing at me (back-and-forth kiting in stupid narrow sins hallways).

I don't melee to whittle down mobs that voluntarily kill themselves on my BB's so my melee focus is almost entirely on casters and archers. When I charge into a room/area that has 3-4 melee mobs, 1-3 casters, and 1-3 archers I do immediately switch to my dual GS kama's and kill the casters regardless of the possible beating I'll get from the other mobs. Then i swap back to my gs + icy burst sup pot6 kama combo and take down the melee with my bb's. I leave the archers until last as they are essentially free mana while i kill everything else.

I'm not saying my way is the best way, the right way, or the wrong way. I tend to be a min/max type player and my way is what I have found to maximize my abilities in my preferred playstyle. I know the OP and have grouped with his exploiter and his other ranger on a number of occasions. So I have a limited amount of insight as to how he plays in game. My recommendations in this post were specific to my perspective of his general playstyle. Who knows, I could be completely wrong about his playstyle from the dozen or two times we've grouped or raided together.. we aren't BFF's in game, just passing acquaintances.

Makes a lot of sense, I'll keep this stuff in mind.