Healadin going OOMFollow

What about using Seal of Wisdom to help you regenerate more mana?

Also, if most of your heals are going to the DPS folks, sounds like they need to manage their aggro better (or your isn't very good at holding the aggro). It's not the healer's fault if the rest of the party can't manage their aggro correctly. If your DPS only occasionally breaks aggro, that happens, but if it's constant, then they need to adjust their tactics.

time warp? ZG? Srat? People still run those?

Paladins are exceptional healers at 70. At 60 we were cleansebots and complemented heals with FoL spam.

Dont know if much has changed. I havent ran a level 60 instance since well before BC came out.

And id use BoW. very unlikely you will pull aggro.

Edited, Nov 26th 2007 1:20pm by KTurner

Paladin is simply *teh* most efficient healer class, as long as you can more or less focus on a single target.

I have slightly lower stats than a Druid and Priest I ran ZA with yesterday. At the end of the Bear fight (First one and only we managed to down >_>) I was still at 20% mana left while they were both OoM. Well, the Druid Innervated himself so I think he had some left, but both screamed "OoM!" near the end of the fight. Not sure if they used a potion or not. Yet, I beat them on the meters. Go figure, maybe I need to double-check their gear.

Anyway, bragging aside, I felt much more efficient. Fight is fairly easy for a Pally since only the two tanks take damage and someone gets charged only so often.

As for the more technical stuff...

I like to keep Conc Aura cause I'm in a caster group anyway. The added armor does not save them from much in raids anyway. Resistance only if needed, otherwise Conc stays up.

I second putting BoW on yourself. Healing is half the threat and Pally Healing is half the half... so a quarter.

Finally, focus on the tank more and let other healers take care of the DPS. A Druid's HoTs or a Priest's will get him back to full health over time. If he gets hit too much, he should withdraw and bandage, lest he fails as a raider.

All paladin healing spells have a threat generation equal to 1/3 of the healed points. This is why paladin healing in large raids is so often used. The risk of grabbing aggro from main tank is minimal and far lower than druids and priests. (From Wowwiki)

Get rid of the Salv!!!!! Blessing of wisdom <3. If you pull aggro, then you have a chance to yell at the tanks.

Sorry, haha I fail^^

You put your hands on your hips....

First, I have to say that I've had a blast running Strat for my epic quest and am looking forward to completing the quest this week in Scholo -- what's not to like for a paladin? Undead by the truckload, it's like a pally playground!

I will echo what others have said -- use Wisdom on yourself, it makes a huge difference in your mana regen -- take a look at the Spell tab on your character sheet with it up vs. some other blessing, you'll see a big difference.

I take it from your post that you're not an alchemist, so you may want to try to get your hands on either scrolls of intellect or something like Adept's Elixir, Elixir of the Sages, Elixir of Draenic Wisdom or Elixir of Healing Power. These boost Intellect, Spirit, Spell Damage/Healing, etc. very nicely.

One other thought about your group -- is it possible that you're group is underleveled for the instances you're running? I had a horrible episode in ZF that nearly made me give up healing before I realized it was the group, not me. I was at lvl 55, two of the group were at least two levels below the recommended level, and the tank was at the lowest listed level. She did the best she could holding aggro, but the other two were so low they were little aggro magnets and took serious damage (and couldn't really deal any effective damage, either). It seemed when I wasn't OoM, I was busy rezzing someone. We didn't get too far, and it really shook my confidence at first. I have learned a lot since then, one of which is to take properly-leveled groups!

I do recommend a trip or two to Outlands if you haven't been there (don't sweat over not having your charger at lvl 60, you can wait a few levels) -- there's lots of good paladin gear to be had. A lot of the initial Hellfire quests are really quite easy, and have good rewards. I picked up better gear from rewards and drops in my first two hours in Hellfire Penninsula than I'd seen in 57 levels in Azeroth -- lots of +healing gear and trinkets to be had; also look for +Int.

Sorry for my lengthy post, hope it helps. Good luck to you!

Well, you can look up any character on any server provided they have logged on to wow recently, via the wowarmory.com. You too, can find yourself here and it will allow you to link to yourself. By example the wize Captain here has 'http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Bonechewer&n=Unholyrose' as a link in his sig. Notice how it links to the armory and has both server and character name in it.

So either search for yourself or replace the server/character name in that link.

(right now armory gives an error, probably due to maintenance)

Well, what some people like to do is to go to Outland at 58 and get the gear from the first 4-6 quests (all of which should be quite nice upgrades) and then go back to Azeroth and tear through the nicer XP quests for levels 58 and 59. The idea behind this is that it "saves" you more quests in Outland for when you hit 70, so that you can run those quests for gold for your flying mount (if you don't have the gold by 70) or, more likely, for your epic flying mount. Since Blizzard has added more xp for the Azeroth quests, this is now also a speedy option as well. Of course, there's no problem with skipping them, it's just that there are some other things you might want to keep in mind when deciding what to do between 58 and 60.

Manon - that is some good advice. Never thought of trying the lower rank heals. I'll give that a shot.

Also, I'll post my armory tomorrow (and I'll log out in my Healing gear).

Thanks.

I agree with CapJack. Chain healing max rank FoL is the most mana efficient way to heal. Firstly, Blizzard designed the game so that lower rank healing spells benefit less from +healing. So you are actually making your heals less efficient by casting low rank Holy light vs max rank FoL. Second, if you're hoping to regen more mana with downtime from Holy light, forget it. It takes 5 secs after a spell cast for that regen to start, so you won't be getting it much.

About overhealing, it's better to set your party hp bars to hp deficit number instead of a percentage. If your FoL heals for 700 and 1100 on a crit, wait till the tank has a 600-700 hp deficit before you start your FoL. Chain cast FoL nd save a Divine Favor -> Holy light for an emergency heal on the tank when he drops below 40%. If you pull aggro, use your bubble and keep casting instead of letting yourself get pummeled and have to emergency heal yourself.

How is downranking unnecessary? I don't know what the OP is doing exactly but he maybe using the wrong heal when the tank takes a spike in damage. So instead of using a higher rank he needs to try a 1 or 2 lower rank holy light. He needs to say Ok normally I would use this heal but I'll try this lower one and see how it works in this situation.

FoL spamming works in 5 mans is fine most of the time but unless you have insane +healing you can't do that on tanks against bosses in most raids. FoL for raid heals works great but using Holy Lights on the tank works fine as well. Cost like 10 mana more(Rank4) but also heals a bit more than FoL and you have reduced cast time up pretty much constantly.

Not every situation is the same of course but for the most part I rarely use more than 1 mana pot per boss in Kara and sometimes none at all.

Yeah I gotta wonder about this one as well. For instance: I take a 1-2 punch from a demon in HBF for 8k dmg (reg hit and an uppercut neither of which crush or crit) how is FoL spam going to make up for that before the next hit or 2 kills me?

I don't have experience yet with raid bosses but I can't imagine they hit any less like trucks than heroic mobs and implying that FoL is the only way to go I suspect isn't entirely accurate.

Frankly I'd wait to hear from Bodhi or someone with more healing experience (don't know if that's you Manon, couldn't tell from your post. Apologies if it is.)

General consensus is FoL spam unless they get below a certain amount, then hit HL or DF + HL if it's a ton of damage to get them back up there.

Spamming a downranked HL first off does not get the same coeffecient as regular HL, so after a certain point, FoL is still going to do more. You have to wait another .5 seconds to cast it, and it costs more mana still. Downranking I just consider to be overthinking the healing process.