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I am currently disc in 10 man naxx. I am finding it difficult and expensive to heal the raid (group heals). I am also finding it hard to send big heals at the MT when he needs those big heals. When I look at other priest's specs I see they are holy. Is it worth my while to respec or are priest just not "THE HEALER" anymore? In heroics it is basically game over when there is group damage. I can only manage to keep the tank up. What are some specs that I should consider for naxx and heroics?
You shouldn't be having problems with either spec for healing. The only difference in AoE healing between Disc and Holy is that Holy gets Circle of Healing. Which is good to have for excessive splash damage, but it's not a killer if you don't have it. Same thing for Naxx, if you are on MT duty between Penance, PoM, Renew, Flash Heal, and Bubbles you shouldn't be having an issue keeping the MT alive. The only thing I can think of is your gear, your tanks gear, or possibly both.
Edit: Just noticed you mentioned group heals in raid, who or what spec/class is the other healer in the raid. I've found pairing does matter. Like you really wouldn't want a holy pally and a disc priest as your only healers. While it can work, it is much easier to pair up strengths like single target heals of a Disc Priest with the AoE heals of a Holy priest or shaman or even the HoTs of a druid.
Edited, Dec 23rd 2008 3:30pm by SynnTastic
Edit: Just noticed you mentioned group heals in raid, who or what spec/class is the other healer in the raid. I've found pairing does matter. Like you really wouldn't want a holy pally and a disc priest as your only healers. While it can work, it is much easier to pair up strengths like single target heals of a Disc Priest with the AoE heals of a Holy priest or shaman or even the HoTs of a druid.
Edited, Dec 23rd 2008 3:30pm by SynnTastic
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My main problem is healing my group in a heroic and healing a tank from less than 50% in a hurry. I need better gear but I am geared enough to do these runs.
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My main problem is healing my group in a heroic and healing a tank from less than 50% in a hurry. I need better gear but I am geared enough to do these runs.
Bubble + Renew + Greater Heal. Should bring any tank up from 50% to a more comfortable level.
Yes even warrior/druid tanks can get bubbles once or twice in a fight. The bubbles don't last that long and if they are dropping to 50% that quick I doubt they are hurting for rage.
But saying you need better gear but are geared enough, but then saying you are having problems keeping people alive(especially a main tank), leads people to suspect gear issues.
It may very well be the tanks you are trying to heal. I've had tanks say I was a crappy healer because they died going from 75% health to dead before I could even cast a greater heal while they have renew ticking. I can't heal someone who dies that fast, no amount of gear in the world would change that.
The only thing you can do really is link your profile from the armory, and maybe we could give suggestions on your gear(the response might well be that you are fine to heal heroics and Naxx). Maybe even link the tanks gear(or do it in their class specific forums to get better input) to see if they are geared well enough.
Both Disc and Holy are fine for healing heroics and Naxx. Prayer of Mending should be out there at all times, Renew should always be ticking on the MT, when splash damage happens, hit a prayer of healing, or bubble the tank and flash heal or renew the rest of the group, that should be more than enough to handle any if not all splash damage in heroics and Naxx(though honestly I wouldn't know what to do without CoH on the Void Walker boss in Heroic VH... gonna suck come patch day lol).
Edited, Dec 23rd 2008 3:51pm by SynnTastic
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I am currently disc in 10 man naxx.
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I am finding it difficult and expensive to heal the raid (group heals).
There is your problem. While Synn is right that holy only gains 1 extra AOE heal (unless you count lolwell), holy has a lot of talents that improve AOE heals. That's why Holy is regarded the raid heal tree. Disc is better at single-target healing thanks to grace in combination with rapture and divine aegis.
In raids, you'll want to be paired with another healer who can take care of the raid while you handle the tank. You really shouldn't have any problems with that as disc. If you do, either your tank is undergeared, or (pardon my french) you suck at healing; I think the latter's pretty much impossible if you've levelled to 80 and entered Naxx, though. As for heroics, holy probably has it easier since it's better at dealing with AOE damage. Disc should be able to do it fairly well, though.
So short; disc and holy are both raid viable and you should be doing fine as disc. Have a look at your tank, he himself might be the reason he's dropping so fast. And tell your raid leaders you are primarily a single-target healer and you should not be assigned to raid healing.
Edit: On second thought, you yourself might of course be undergeared as well.
Edited, Dec 23rd 2008 10:37pm by Mozared
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I would prefer Holyspec definately
Im holyspecced and dont have much gear yet but healing heroics and naxx as raid healer is really easy and i help on keeping tank alive.
Im holyspecced and dont have much gear yet but healing heroics and naxx as raid healer is really easy and i help on keeping tank alive.
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