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When do you use Binding Heal?
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Korpimieli
When do you guys use Binding Heal? Is it more effective than other heals in certain situations? I´ve NEVER used the spell, to be honest. Another spell very seldom used by me is Flash Heal.
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Korpimieli
Yeah, it makes sense that while teaming with just 1 person, the priest should use binding heal. Anyhow, in a 5-man I don´t really find much use for it. Very seldom it is only the tank and healer taking damage.
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kwehkweh
aside from obvious im taking damage situations, if healings easy i tend to use binding heal on clearcasting procs just for the double chance to get another clearcasting :P
Post by
TalonX
I use it all the time for most WotLK bosses, because almost all of them do some sort of AoE skills so I use it to keep myself topped off while not letting the tank die
Post by
PalominoMule
It's far from useless. Situational, sure, but
every
healing spell that a priest has is situational. That's the
point
.
This!
Binding heal has the following advantages:
1. Well, obviously, it applies to yourself and one other person.
2. It's fast.
3.
Low threat.
This is a delightful "oh crap" button. If you have secured some aggro and as such are taking damage, this is useful specifically because you can heal yourself (already taking damage and as such in need of healing) and whoever else may need it without digging yourself too much deeper threat-wise.
Last night I was running heroic Gundrak, and my group was really struggling to do Slad'ran in any proper manner, mostly due to group composition problems. So the tank said "okay, let's just try nuking him". In the chaos of trying to keep up with the healing in this fight (in which I didn't even have the opportunity to run out from poison nova, ouch of ouchies) I really only used two spells; the first was Circle of Healing. See, Circle of Healing was good for keeping the DPS up, but it was also dishing out lovely, lovely threat that the adds were just eating up. My tank was also taking damage. So, let's look at the facts:
1. I needed to heal myself and one other person.
2. I needed that healing *fast*.
3. I really didn't need to encourage the adds any more than I already was.
Binding Heal *may* have been the second spell I used. And, lovely thing it is, it totally carried me and the tank through the fight enough to let me keep everyone up through the nuke-fest.
We are the swiss army knives of healing. Embrace your many spells.
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Post by
sinaraine
occasional, i can name a few bosses that need binding.
first boss of gundrak, does the poison nova thingy, if you get hit prolly binding heal is a good choice for keeping up your tank and you at the same time.
loatheb, noth,
maxxena
, herald volazj, yea basically those bosses which damage the healers and tanks together
although dropping an aoe heal is much better, very often, the AOE heals wont cap you up and while putting up hots and flash heals on those desprate for healing you can binding heal a target to save a 1.5 sec cast time.
binding heal heals more then flash heal also.
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OnlyPlaysHealers
DEFINITELY use this in the Naxx 4 Horsemen Fight. We had me :a holy priest: and an elemental shaman in the two back corners and binding heal was like a 1 sec 5k heal for both of us. Very useful as a quick heal.
Post by
Korpimieli
Maybe I will replace Flash Heal with Binding Heal on my healing hotkeys. I kinda don't see the use for both and considering the information you´ve given me, Binding Heal is a more versatile spell.
Post by
Patty
i have used it when (most the time) 1 dps and I need it.
This is because of a few reasons.
1 - Low threat
2 - heals both of us (duh)
3 - Not too long sacrificed not healing the tank
although its not mana efficient, its a quick way of healing up 2 ppl and geting srt8 back into normal rotations
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