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#1 Feb 25 2010 at 11:18 AM Rating: Excellent
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GC on how to heal as a priest:

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Disc: PoM on cooldown. PW:S as much as you can (esp. on the Arcane mage until 3.3.3). Use Penance often when you need burst. Resort to PoH if a lot of people need healing at once, especially in 10-player raids where you don’t have a lot of other healers to pick up the slack. Keep Pain Suppression and Divine Hymn for emergencies. Use Power Infusion on a mage or lock if you don’t need it.

Holy: PoM on cooldown. CoH on cooldown if there is any raid damage. Renew to handle the rest of the raid damage. Flash Heal if someone is still low after all of that. Save GS and Divine Hymn for emergencies or timed boss cooldowns. I tend to use Binding Heal a lot more than most priests because it makes me feel smart, especially when globals are in question.

What I like: Feeling smart when I mix the right tool with the right problem. Saving lives when someone thought they were dead. Sitting there at full mana halfway through a fight because I didn’t heal when I didn’t need to. Penance in general. Body and Soul. Borrowed Time. Serendipity.

What I don’t like: Using CoH so much. Dealing with Weakened Soul (esp. as Holy). Lightwell. Seeing priests die. (In all honesty I don’t die a lot, but I see Spirits of Redemption constantly. I guess as a sweeping generalization, priests have the stare-at-Grid syndrome worse than other healers.) Blowing 3 candles every wipe. Looking like a mage if I pick the wrong gear.




Along with other interesting commentary on priest healing: http://blue.mmo-champion.com/27/23329534731-people-saying-priests-are-fine.html
#2 Feb 25 2010 at 11:27 AM Rating: Decent
I've been following it today...

I think the biggest thing people forget to realize is that healing in raids is about what your team of healers does and not so much what you do. Holy and disc are both fine right now, I don't think anyone is sitting a holy priest while saying "we just need more AoE heals"

Disc is a niche like shadow was in BC. You get one, you hope they show up.

I wish our bonus on tier was better, I wish disc throughput on tank healing was viable again...

But every raid wants or should want at LEAST one if not two priests in a 25 raid

Holy Paladin is the shaman of this expansion. You almost have to call a raid if your main holy pally isn't there

I rerolled to a holy paladin about the time togc was making me feel like I couldn't keep up as a priest, I've sense gone back to disc just because I enjoy priests more I guess :)



#3 Feb 25 2010 at 11:35 AM Rating: Decent
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Blizzard tends to surprise me more than precisely typing my mind, but they've definitely done so here.
#4 Mar 01 2010 at 7:47 AM Rating: Good
Here's a nice article on this, with a few more Ghostcrawler insights.

http://www.wow.com/2010/02/28/spiritual-guidance-ghostcrawler-on-priests/
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