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I'm afraid of raid healing.
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Post by
ZoraLink
Holy
Lightwell + Guardian Spirit + CoH + Spirit of Redemption = FTW
Disc is
fantastic
healing, for a
single target
. Use it in Arena or dungeons but not raids.
You don't wanna have to spend the whole raid going F2, Greater Heal, F3, Greater Heal, F4, Greater Heal. If the raid doesn't wipe from constant 3 second cast times, it will wipe when you run oom. And Penance isn't going to help. Sure it might heal for 15k with the first 5k up instantly, but you can glyph it and throw talent points at it and it still has an 8sec CD. That's 3 Greater Heals you've gotta pop while you wait.
Disc is more focused on buffing and shielding, but against an 83 boss, that bubble will be lucky to hold off 2 melee hits with a 15sec debuff to boot.
Sure, you can give it a try, but 99% of the time, holy's gonna be what you want.
WAT.
Seriously, wat! I don't even know how to respond to the level of ignorance in this post.
Post by
karlusdavius
Holy
Lightwell + Guardian Spirit + CoH + Spirit of Redemption = FTW
Disc is
fantastic
healing, for a
single target
. Use it in Arena or dungeons but not raids.
You don't wanna have to spend the whole raid going F2, Greater Heal, F3, Greater Heal, F4, Greater Heal. If the raid doesn't wipe from constant 3 second cast times, it will wipe when you run oom. And Penance isn't going to help. Sure it might heal for 15k with the first 5k up instantly, but you can glyph it and throw talent points at it and it still has an 8sec CD. That's 3 Greater Heals you've gotta pop while you wait.
Disc is more focused on buffing and shielding, but against an 83 boss, that bubble will be lucky to hold off 2 melee hits with a 15sec debuff to boot.
Sure, you can give it a try, but 99% of the time, holy's gonna be what you want.
your an idiot.
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91278
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Post by
donnymurph
Guys ignore my last post. I was being a smartarse drunk Aussie %^&*head. :S. I do have Disc healing experience, but things were uh, a little different (don't wanna let on too much). So while I maintain that Holy is my preferred spec (and that the link in the post above me doesn't actually prove anything about Disc healing), please ignore my last post.
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318206
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donnymurph
/sarcasm on
Of course, Discipline Priests can't use Holy-only spells like Renew, Prayer of Mending, Prayer of Healing, Flash Heal, Binding Heal or Power Word: Shield... No, stick to that "Penance -> Greater Heal x3" rotation, that's what the pros are doing...
/sarcasm off
I told you to ignore that I said that. I was quite intoxicated and talking $hit. Which I think everyone realises.
(and that the link in the post above me doesn't actually prove anything about Disc healing)
Other than that it shows very clear raid viablility?
No, it shows me that you raided with 3 healers, and that almost 50% of the healing done was wasted. It doesn't tell me who was healed, who did the healing and how much, who did the overhealing and how much, all it says is "Between these 3 healers, we did this much healing."
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nickseng
No, it shows me that you raided with 3 healers, and that almost 50% of the healing done was wasted. It doesn't tell me who was healed, who did the healing and how much, who did the overhealing and how much, all it says is "Between these 3 healers, we did this much healing."
This being the first time I've actually clicked into that site, but some clicking about led me to
this
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91278
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donnymurph
Okay. Point proven.
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donnymurph
I've disc healed in raids, but I'm not really allowed to talk about how and where...
Let's just say that I only needed to worry about the tank in these particular raids, so I only had Penance, Greater and Flash Heals, and PW:S out on my bars.
In my drunken stupor I kind of forgot that things like Prayer of Healing, Holy Nova, Divine Hymn, and Renew were even able to be used by disc priests... (Feel free to slap me)
I still want to back up everything else that I said though, including that disc is fantastic (in fact it's probably the spec of choice) for single target healing. Also, I conferred with the leader of one of the top 10-man guilds on my realm, who is a disc priest, and he told me this:
"Disc can't touch holy in terms of raw healing done. Our holy priest does 6k HPS, I only do 3k HPS, but I never run out of mana. He does."
and also this:
"I only overheal by 3-5%. Our holy priest overheals by 40-50%"
and this:
"My Penance heals for 13k and it reaches its full effect in 1.4 sec".
So while holy is my preferred PvE spec, from now on I'm gonna keep my big beer-smelling mouth shut and use this board for learning more about my class of choice, instead of talking $hit.
EDIT: reworded slightly from actual quotes to remove ambiguity.
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91278
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donnymurph
Trust me, I tried it once before and the mods deleted the post.
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91278
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donnymurph
Let's just say that I only needed to worry about the tank in these particular raids, so I only had Penance, Greater and Flash Heals, and PW:S out on my bars.
Geddit?
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donnymurph
Well yeah I'm drunk again and this post is probably gonna get deleted but yeah, it was on a private server, 4 of my 7 months WoW experience has been on privates, and on this particular server, the raids weren't scripted so only the tank took damage. So if I only need to heal one bloke I don't really need to use HoTs or AoEs and you kinda forget that they exist when they're not on your action bars... And because I used disc I kinda forgot that those other spells existed for disc...
That's why I was like (WTF?) to the OP, just being a drunk, forgetful idiot, and that's why I'd rather you all just ignore my post...
EDIT: lol spelt forgetful wrong
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