Healadin going OOMFollow

You guys aren't wrong about Holy Light being more time efficient and thus necessary when doing Heroics where bosses can hit the MT for 2-3k. However, that is a completely different situation from a lv 60 pally trying to heal normal difficulty instances. Since his problem is mainly mana efficiency, FoL is the way to go.

I look at your armory entry and you really lack +healing gear. You can start by replacing your main hand, wrist, and boots with green healing gear, which shouldn't cost too much. Try to get up to +300 healing at your level. With a decent tank, you should be fine. If you have to heal the squishies alot, you may run oom quite often, simply they take more damage. I like to remind the mage that he's not a tank by bubbling him when he goes to pull ;)

Honestly until I was solidly into outlands I didn't concern myself with the armor value of the items, just the stats of the healing gear. I had been ret and so I snagged up every piece of healing gear I could get my hands no no matter if it was plate, leather, or even cloth.

*smacks head*
BoP only stops you from making physical attacks, how n00bish of me. Still, they often get the idea and it gets their attention at the least.

I just want to take a sec to thank everyone who post. I just rolled a holy pally and this is a great heads up for me for what to look out for in the future. and thanks to YJ for asking.





http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Darkspear&n=Aarika

QFT. Some people love to hammer the big heals in order to top the healing charts as often as they can. During my guild's "learning curve" with Lady Vaj, we had one pally consistently go oom before the end of the first phase and people were blowing innervates on him. Each time he was the #1 guy on the charts, but it ate into our efficiency pretty hard. What worked for him on the shorter fights became a serious limitation for an endurance race.

Other pallies in the guild (me included) have adopted the style of hammering FoLs while saving the big heals for emergency situations. Like you pointed out, gear helps a lot and certainly end-game plate can bump those FoLs to some impressive numbers. Combined with the right spread of talent points our mana efficiency really shines in those longer fights. That's not to say throwing the big overheals out there is wrong, but the smart pally knows when to go full throttle and when the hold back. Many times it just takes a little experimenting to see where that line in the sand is for your character.