20121203, lundi

A. Since my last post,

1. The Mistweaver monk's average iLevel rose from 456 to 461.
2. The Mistweaver finished a raid as healer, 4th in total healing of 6 healers.
3. The Warlock reached level 89
4. Level 90 Dungeon Crusaders Egal, Githeiah, Chronospanda, Azeld, and Flynt got some achievements in WotLK 25-man raids, then we hit a snag.

B.  Regarding the healing of the 36 million HP dragon in the WorLK raid (the dragon needs a net heal of +18 million while being actively damaged),

1. Found this discussion of single target healing (not my usual effort, which is AoE) of value:

    http://www.noxxic.com/wow/pve/monk/mistweaver/heal-rotation-and-cooldowns

I'll be using chi more regularly as well as mana, and the healing spell rotation is different.  Noxxic's toplevel recommendations are:

• Healing Sphere Pre-place if at all possible so your target can self heal later.----of course, the dragon does not move, lol
• Soothing Mist Maintain at all times on your healing target. Builds Chi.
• Enveloping Mist Use to heal low to moderate damage. Costs Chi.
• Surging Mist Use to heal high amounts of damage. Builds Chi.

For AoE, I use Renewing Mist, with Enveloping Mist and Surging Mist for minor+ emergencies, so this is a change.  I'll be casting

      Expel Harm-builds Chi
      Chi Brew---refills Chi.

a lot more.

2. Toward the end, they recommend changing glyphs to  use

    http://www.wowhead.com/item=85692 [Glyph of Mana Tea]

I can make this glyph with inscription and apply it.  This should increase the effectiveness of Mana Tea in this situation.

3. According to the link Egal sent regarding 5.1 hot fixes this coming Tuesday, the total damage absorption done by

    http://www.wowhead.com/spell=116849 [Life Cocoon]

will be increased by 100%.  In my healer's current configuration, the absorption is 130,345 HP. 
This spell has a 2-minute cooldown, so I could cast it 3 times on the dragon during our 7 minutes. 
It only lasts 12 seconds, but buffs other healing spells by 50%, as well as doing the damage absorption.

4. I'll need to measure whether the buffs in the spirit world actually update combat mana regeneration for the better.  My feeling on the matter after 3 wipeouts was that it made things considerably worse, but I need to do some measurements.

5. I got quite a number of stuns/sleeps/paralysis/whateveritis during this encounter
    ....no healing done
    ....always take damage
    ....mana regen seems to stop altogether.

I have no suggestions on how to avoid those.  I get them despite listening to GTFO and kiting when I think it will help.

6. Might help to have another level 80+ player there to do keep the enemies off the healer and the dragon.