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Looking for A 3.2 Holy Priest Build
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Post by
Warvean
Hello there,
I've been in Beta for a while, and My current Holy Priest Build isn't quite keeping up with the raid. I was wondering if someone could post me a Build that would give me optimum Tank Healing. Although a Raid Wide healing build would be nice, Just post what the build is when you post a link.
Cheers,
Warvean, Your Faithful Druid
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Post by
ande9249
btw, Fori, the "holy tankheal" spec was just another link to Disc, not sure if that was an error or a not so subtle hint,
as for the aoe heal build, I would like to ask why you did not go for the healing prayers, like
so
, and to the OP, the tank heal
option
in my opinion does include test of faith, simply because the only thing tanks do not like more than being under 50% health, is staying there, not to mention this plus GS should make that time as short as possible.
Mind linking your current build?
Post by
PrimeSonic
Here I present you with two Holy builds tailored to extremes.
Full out single target
Assisted by big Renews, you'll use Serendipity to get a big GHeal ready while maintaining with FHeal.
Full out raid
Circle of Healing is your friend, while that's on CD, snipe around a few FHeals for a fast PoH, and then Circle again.
The funny thing about Holy is that you can never really strike out its flexibility. You'll have plenty of single target healing with the raid build and you'll have enough raid healing with the single target build.
Both of these have Circle of Healing since it's still worthwhile.
None of these have lolwell since I've found it so cumbersome to use even when trying to.
Both these are pretty extreme in build so I'll leave it up to you if you want to tinker with them to better suit your style.
Holy is supposed to be flexible but it is best if you know what you want to focus on and make it known to your raid leader.
EDIT: Take the glyph suggestions with a grain of salt. Adapt them to your style and needs.
Post by
Zerul
If you want to primarily tank heal as Holy, don't or you can continue to stay as an inferior healer who will never catch up.
Post by
Warvean
Hey guys, Thanks for all your help, I have tried all of your builds and they are all great. Fori, With your disciple build, My naxx Raid congratulated me on great MT Healing. I also got heaps of "great healing" On naxx again after healing for the Saphirion fight (Massive AoE Healing ftw) With your Full out Raid Heal build, PrimeSonic.
Thanks for all your help, ad I think I will use this on LIve as well!
Cheers,
Warvean, Your Faithful *Priest!*
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Post by
Crysania
I agree, I always see people shooting down the idea that you can tank heal as holy as a terrible idea. While I agree disc is better for tank healing, it doesn't mean you can't as holy. I recently ran a VoA 25 with only 3 healers: myself, a pally from my guild, and another pug holy priest. Main tank was a warr from our guild, OT was a pug DK. I was assigned to the OT on Emalon. While I burned all my cds and needed some help from the other healers, I kept the OT alive. He also took 95k (about 12%) more damage than the main tank (which was about the amount of healing he received from the other healers). The other priest also died about halfway through the fight. He had cast over 20 Gheals, 7 FH, and no Binding Heals...
/facepalm
That said, if you do primarily want to tank heal, perhaps you should look into disc, as they are built more around damage reduction and where holy really shines is aoe heals/output. My build is primarily for raid healing, but I have healed OTs in 25man Ulduar, which is why I took the lower tier talents for improved greater heals.
Post by
Korpimieli
Which one of these Holy specs would you choose for 5-man heroics?
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#bVcbhZcxtccMqVuhxuAo
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#bVcbhZcxtcc0qVhheuAo
I use Prayer of Mending a lot so I would like to stick with Healing Prayers. But just how important is Serendipity?
(I do realize that while raiding, I will need to spec either for raid healing or tank healing, but in 5-mans I need to do both...)
Post by
Crysania
Lightwell isn't that great for heroics unless your group knows how to use it, even then it will depend on the fight. Serendipity >> Blessed Resilience, and I would try and get 2/2 Surge of Light, maybe take a point from Empowered Renew. Serendipity is good for PoH when everyone is taking damage or a quick Gheal on your tank. Surge of Light procs are always handy as its a free, instant flash heal.
Post by
Korpimieli
Lightwell isn't that great for heroics unless your group knows how to use it, even then it will depend on the fight. Serendipity >> Blessed Resilience, and I would try and get 2/2 Surge of Light, maybe take a point from Empowered Renew. Serendipity is good for PoH when everyone is taking damage or a quick Gheal on your tank. Surge of Light procs are always handy as its a free, instant flash heal.
Thanks, Crysania! I will not take Lightwell and will have Serendipity so the latter spec will be mine.
Surge of Light is good, I believe that, but Flasheal has really never been my favourite spell. Shield, PoM, Renew, CoH and Guardian Spirit are more than enough if one needs fast healing. At least from my experience.
Or is Surge of Light considered a MUST?
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Post by
Korpimieli
Hey , im a holy priest and like to do raid healing.
for me SoL is a must, and i use Flash as my main heal spell.
flash, pom, renew and CoH are my main spells i typical use in a raid. with flash i stack some haste and with CoH i always got crits for free flash, so thats nice :0
Your ideas and rotations sure make sence.
However, it seems to me that even while speccing deep into one tree, nowadays one has to make choices on which spells to emphasize. I weigh renew more than Flash Heal, that´s why I have Empowered Renew and no Surge of Light.
No matter what Deep Holy Spec, something has to be left out.
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Post by
Korpimieli
Have a look at this spec I found on one healer.
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#bVcbuZfE0cbMqihhcuAo
Now that sure is the ultimate raid healing spec! It must be true that if tank healing is not your job, Divine Fury, Improved Healing and Empowered Healing ain´t all that important to have.
If I´m ever going to be raid healer, that will be my spec. What do you think?
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Post by
Korpimieli
Heh Korpimieli, I wonder if that was me you saw,
that is the exact raid healing spec I use
. I also have these
glyphs
. Could switch the gGS for gPoH, but GS is way to nice. With this spec I found I rarely need to use Flash Heal except for
SoL
procs and this spec I actually use on 5 mans instead of my MT healing spec. Last raid recount showed a renew ticked for over 4k, with an average heal from renew/emp renew for just shy of 7K/cast.
SW
rocks also. Not sure why this isn't a more popular holy spec since most people who's job is healing the MT are Disc.
Scarry, it wasn´t you ´cause the glyphs were different! Anyhow, it is good that more and more people are beginning to find that spec. There must be something to it, then.
If it is possible to heal 5-man heroics with that spec, I will give it a try. One major glyph will be for PoH, though. No 6 people in 5-mans! :)
Post by
mccloud
Have a look at this spec I found on one healer.
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#bVcbuZfE0cbMqihhcuAo
Now that sure is the ultimate raid healing spec! It must be true that if tank healing is not your job, Divine Fury, Improved Healing and Empowered Healing ain´t all that important to have.
If I´m ever going to be raid healer, that will be my spec. What do you think?
I think you missed some of the basic holy talents ... Empowered Healing gives you more healing than it looks like - increasing the spell coefficient of your spells and not the flat ammount of healing, which results in even more healing. Second, Desparate Prayer is a lifesaver in many situations(instant cast, lots of heal on you - GCD - you keep healing the tank/everybody). Third, unless you have and immense ammount of crit rating and are able to keep Holy Concentration all the time, I'd suggest that you pick Improved healing, because this combined with the Flash Heal glyph results in 25% less mana per Flash Heal which is HUGE when you spam it.
One last thing, if you won't be raiding, pick up Silent Resolve from the Disc tree, running heroics with an undergeared/idiot tank will get you killed many times if you dont have this talent. Hope this helps somewhat.
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