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Advice on healing H TOC as disc
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ZoraLink
Why does this thread keep getting ressurected?
Post by
nickseng
Yeah, but the same logic applies to Serendipity...
With the exact same gear, Discipline has more Haste thanks to Enlightenment.
For the first (prepared) PoH, Discipline will be faster thanks to Borrowed Time + Power Infusion vs Serendipity.
For PoH spam, casting Power Infusion will give you 20% Haste for 15 seconds every 96 seconds, no abilities in the Holy tree compare to Power Infusion.
Also, I'm pretty sure Borrowed Time applies to the GCD of the PW:S that procs it, so after the first PoH, Holy will spend more time using a SoL proc (to build up 1/3 Serendipity for next PoH) than Disc would spend if they PW:S someone to proc another Borrowed Time proc.
However, with talents like Healing Prayers and Divine Providence, a Holy priest's PoH will be more efficient in both HPM and HPS than a Discipline's PoH, but that's something everyone should agree on. Disc can simply spam-cast weaker PoHs faster than Holy's stronger PoHs.
Of course, we can't compare the 2 specs with the same set of gear. Disc and Holy gearing are different enough that wearing the same gear for both specs won't really be optimum.
Holy will be gearing for a whole lot of haste, in lieu of Crit. In this way, Holy usually has a lot more haste than Disc, even counting Enlightment. Even with straight spamming PoH (without serendipity) and the occasional CoH, it should still be faster than Disc's Shield+PoH spam.
I'm not saying that Disc can't heal the 3rd phase, heck I usually heal as Disc, but simply that Holy is much better at it. :)
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nickseng
Just curious though, I sometimes find PoH kinda underwhelming as an AOE heal though.
I have around 2.6k sp as Holy, and my PoH heals for around 2.5k-3k healing, which is really piddles, comparatively. I've read somewhere that ppl are getting around 5k heals with PoH, and I was wondering how the heck did they manage that.
Post by
Astygia
Just curious though, I sometimes find PoH kinda underwhelming as an AOE heal though.
I have around 2.6k sp as Holy, and my PoH heals for around 2.5k-3k healing, which is really piddles, comparatively. I've read somewhere that ppl are getting around 5k heals with PoH, and I was wondering how the heck did they manage that.
Discipline allows a ridiculous amount of crit. Non-critting PoH will indeed hit for 2.5ish, but crits will be 5-6k. If you compare CoH to PoH of course CoH is simply better, but for Disc PoH shouldn't be underestimated.
And again, p3 of the BK is really not at all about efficiency, you're just spamming to keep the group up while they burn him. Holy and Disc are both great for this since the only singular attention required during this phase is when someone gets marked for death, as they'll be taking more damage than the rest of the group. PW:S, Penance if you have it or CoH if not, and resume PoH spam.
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