Am I doing something wrong?Follow

I often get asked if I am healing because I often had plenty of Mana in fights (like near full). I am disc speced and have plenty of mana regen gear (here is my armory link:Gear

So when I'm healing a single target, I let their health go down 11k (less if it goes down fast, but if it is steady, I wait), then hit them with PW:S>Penance>Greater Heal ( or just flash heal if penance crited a few times, or even nothing). I fill in any 'gaps' in healing with flash heal if penance is on CD, use that, that start over when weakened soul is off. If I'm only healing a single target, is there something else I should be doing be doing? (the highest I done is 10 naxx and those are always PuGs, so no real chance of me being part of a steady healer combo).

ok, thanks.

Only time people die is when my connection decides to take a vacation or the target is taking an extraordinary amount of damage (i.e. Razuvious on disciple w.o boneshield up)

Edit:

P.S. is it ever a wise idea to use pain suppression on a tank? The 40% damage reduction is tempting, but the 5% hit to agro seems bad..

Edited, Apr 9th 2009 11:10am by BakaShinobi

No, you're doing nothing wrong. Your way of MT healing is in fact probably the most mana efficient and effective one for an average fight.

As for Pain Suppression; just throw it. I've used it on the main tank in 100 badges worth of heroics and over 10 Naxx/Maly/Sart runs, and not once did it cause the tank to lose aggro. The threat loss is no problem at all.

Agree with the others that if your target(s) is/are standing at the end of the fight, you did your job.

But if you're waiting a long time between heals and know you'll have mana to spare, nothing wrong with tossing out the occasional SW:P or Smite. :D Just make sure you can do it without losing focus on what your main priority is.

Just don't use it on someone multi-tanking alot of mobs, because it can easily turn out they only have token threat on some of them. Pain Suppression and a Heal, and suddenly you're a smear on the ground. Stick with Shield and as little healing as you can get away with, until you're certain the tank's got everything under control.