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Healing in Faction Champs
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Post by
oberondreaming
So as you may have guessed (or noticed if you read the Druid boards) my main is a druid healer, but I've really been enjoying my pally healer as well. I like to think I understand the concepts pretty well and have a good handle on basic tank healing. Last night I took her into ToC 25 for the first time and while most of the fights (well Beasts and Jaraxxus anyway cause that's all we got to) seemed pretty standard, I was a little thrown at first on Faction Champs.
As a druid, this fight is kind of cake. I can basically just run around the arena like a chicken sans head and spam HoTs on everyone and do pretty good healing. (If I don't run around like a crazy person and throw out some casted heals as well it's even better of course.) But as a paladin, my typical toolkit of spamming HL on the person taking the most damage (the tank in normal fights) doesn't really apply. On our third or fourth attempt (we had a pretty fail group) I switched to spamming FoL on anyone who needed healing and that seemed to work pretty well. I still had a bit of trouble when things decided to attack me, since I can't run and heal at the same time, but it seemed to be working a bit better.
So I'm curious if anyone has Holy Pally specific advice on how to heal this fight? (Or a link to an earlier thread discussing this? I couldn't find one with the search tool, but the results always seem pretty borked to me.)
Post by
beatphreek
I use flashes, shocks, and a LOT of cleanse... you can avoid a lot of raid damage by making sure that all of those dots are cleared off. Plus you can cleanse and run. SS anyone getting focused too. I beacon myself so that I can heal others even if I'm getting beat on by something. I also focus and fear that felhunter if he hasn't been killed because he always seems to hate me the most.
Post by
skribs
On a druid, your 5x1 is all instants. It makes it very OP for faction champs.
On a paladin, your primary heals are FoL and HL. Both require you to stand still, and both can be interrupted. My recommendation is to use as many instants as you can (HS, cleanse, SS, instant FoL) in order to be able to minimize the amount of time you spend using abilities that can be interrupted.
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Post by
pezz
If you have druids/holy priests/that style of healer in general, focus on cleansing and triage. Work on debuffs, throw HS on anyone about to die, use cooldowns effectively, but leave the big healing to someone else.
Edit: If you have a mass dispel bot priest, Beacon/focus on them. They are more important than you, and do your most likely job on this fight better than you.
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Post by
Hashshashins
Everyone else covered it really but there is one thing that I would say to you. Blizz designed this to resemble a pvp fight. Treat it as one. Thats not to say come in using pvp gear or a pvp spec (had personal experience of a pug priest who swapped to disc pvp and pvp gear for the fight and refused to stay pve..) but be aware. If you have any experience of healing as a pala in pvp use it, stay mobile, cleanse, use short/instant heals.
Don't forget that if HS crits you have an instant FoL coming up so use that on someone getting shown some love (or yourself if the rogue decides to "make your aquaintance"). After all its harder to be interrupted as a druid than as a class with 1 instant cast heal (not including HS crit procs) and it has a CD too. Other than that enjoy, its great fun to heal as a pala!
Afterthoughts: To be honest, just stick with what pezz said, he/she knows what he/she is talking about.
Edit:Added afterthoughts
Post by
PureGold
Everyone else covered it really but there is one thing that I would say to you. Blizz designed this to resemble a pvp fight. Treat it as one. Thats not to say come in using pvp gear or a pvp spec (had personal experience of a pug priest who swapped to disc pvp and pvp gear for the fight and refused to stay pve..) but be aware. If you have any experience of healing as a pala in pvp use it, stay mobile, cleanse, use short/instant heals.
Don't forget that if HS crits you have an instant FoL coming up so use that on someone getting shown some love (or yourself if the rogue decides to "make your aquaintance"). After all its harder to be interrupted as a druid than as a class with 1 instant cast heal (not including HS crit procs) and it has a CD too. Other than that enjoy, its great fun to heal as a pala!
Afterthoughts: To be honest, just stick with what pezz said, he/she knows what he/she is talking about.
Edit:Added afterthoughts
^ FFS use your HoP, HoF, HoSalv, HoSac, EVERYTHING. Just use it all to keep more important people alive.
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Post by
Hashshashins
Everyone else covered it really but there is one thing that I would say to you. Blizz designed this to resemble a pvp fight. Treat it as one. Thats not to say come in using pvp gear or a pvp spec (had personal experience of a pug priest who swapped to disc pvp and pvp gear for the fight and refused to stay pve..) but be aware. If you have any experience of healing as a pala in pvp use it, stay mobile, cleanse, use short/instant heals.
Don't forget that if HS crits you have an instant FoL coming up so use that on someone getting shown some love (or yourself if the rogue decides to "make your aquaintance"). After all its harder to be interrupted as a druid than as a class with 1 instant cast heal (not including HS crit procs) and it has a CD too. Other than that enjoy, its great fun to heal as a pala!
Afterthoughts: To be honest, just stick with what pezz said, he/she knows what he/she is talking about.
Edit:Added afterthoughts
^ FFS use your HoP, HoF, HoSalv, HoSac, EVERYTHING. Just use it all to keep more important people alive.
PureGold just 1'up'd me, well played good sir
Post by
PureGold
Wasn't trying to, was just adding some extra stuff to your post. (removed) Apparently the shadow priest is a lot weaker than a real one.
Post by
oberondreaming
Thanks guys, there's a lot of helpful ideas here.
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