CapJack wrote:
1) What stats should be buffed and what stats are recommended for normal,kara,heroic, and raiding instances?
2) What blessing do you buff other party members with?
3) How do you top off other party members while also healing the main tank?
4) Is there a big difference in healing techniques between normal pre-kara instances and heroic/raiding instances? If so, what?
5) What techniques are good for arena/pvp? Who do you focus on healing in 3v3, 5v5 or BGs?
6) Plate vs. non-plate gear, who wins out?
1.) I go for an even mix of healing, holy crit, and mp5 while casting. I know our requirements are 1500, 20, 90 to get in to our guild. Kara would be lower... I'd probably say 1300, 17, and 70ish. Its been a while since I was kara level gear though. If you can main heal kara, you can main heal heroics. I was doing heroics well before I set foot in kara once. As for 25 mans, I'd shoot for as close to our guild requirements as you can. I've seen our req's met by pvp and a couple kara epics alone.
2.) It depends on how many paladins there are and who has what talents. My persona build includes imp might, so I try to be the one casting might on people when might is cast. Tanks need Kings > Light > Might. Rogues need Might > Salv > Kings. Priests need Wisdom > Salv > Kings. Druids are like priest/tank depending on their spec. Paladins don't generate hardly any theat so Wisdom > Kings > Salv. Shamans need priest buffs if they're healers, Salv > Wisdom/Might > Kings if they're dps. Mages need Salv > Wisdom > kings, same with warlocks (unless they're dark pact where you switch wis/king). Hunters need Wisdom/Might > Kings > Salv since they can fein.
3.) In all honesty I don't 90% of the time. Paladins are the best single-target healers and one of the worst raid healers. If there are no other healing classes then it tends to get rough. Almost all the time I'm in a raid I'm healing the tanks. If I have to heal other people I use grid to target them quickly and throw a flash of light, then throw one on a tank, then throw another on a raid member, another on the tank, etc. I just alternate between making sure my tank is up and healing the other classes. Worse comes to worse, tell them to break off and bandage.
4.) There was for me, but I'm not sure there should be for everyone. Before I had as much healing as I do now I freqently used a ranked-down version of holy light as my primary healing spell, now I only use flash of light since I've had it crit upwards of 3.3k for 180 mana.
5.) I never pvp, I'm not a good person to ask.
6.) Stats > armor. When I went into kara I had a mix of cloth, leather, mail, and plate. If you stick to plate only healing gear early on you will be severely lacking in stats. Even once I was in kara I would occasionally pick up leather/mail when my plate wouldn't drop. Now I'm all plate but I've been raiding on my paladin for a while.