In a mob that requires a 0 pause CH chain, I'd tend to think no duck casting is an advantage rather than a disadvantage.

Damage spikes come so frequently you cannot duck a cast at 1s left to save mana because the tank may eat a flurry round in that 1s. It would help on unexpected tank swaps, but if those are happening you may have already lost.

But if you are able to gain an extra 1-2 med ticks by sitting as you cast, like you can when duck casting isn't enabled, that helps prolong cleric mana life in a long fight.

Yea as others have said Vyemm requires a ch to land every second. Clicky CH's don't do much because by the time you realize you need one it's too late.

Just a straight up butthole-pucker fight. Tight chain, zero fuck ups, yolo.

The other thing about CH clickies on raids is that when you tend to need them, 3-4 of your most attentive raiders all burn theirs at the same time. So it's not like you have 50 reapers on your raid. You have 25, and about 15 of them will overlap because people see the same dire moment to click them in.

But for a fight like Vyemm or AoW, you have almost no chance to react. Tanks go from 100% to 0% in 1-2 seconds.

On Vyemm I NEVER duck a CH chain heal because, like Daldaen said, the tank's hp can dive at the very last tick. We start our heal as soon as we see the person before us in the chain. We're lucky if we get to sit for a tick between.

For sure. The sit casting helps a lot. What can happen on red is the tank splats and you have 8 clerics casting cheal or something on the dead tank and you can't stop it. I just think it's a nice advantage to have the clickies to fill the gap on certain situations like that. Definitely not an excuse though!

Ranger speedbumps then reset chain.

Sounds like a blast

Still amazing to see Lord Vyemm getting killed this early into Velious, grats on the kills and success so far!

That's the plan!

Very cool group of players!

Slaying vindi a couple days ago in a most classic fashion.