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Koha
Hey Catreann,
i have been healing on and off for alittle while and i'm currently holy/Shadow spec'ed and i can heal UK pretty easy.
Its mainly your gear and your knowledge of the fights, if your in outland u pretty much want your SP to be around the 700SP mark for alittle bit of ease for healing.
1. Intuition does play a part of it, but i find its easy to just pop a renew on the tank, and just flash heal through it. if your SP is around the 700mark u should be fine. Healing is very easy once u know the fights so keep hitting those instances and just get that gear it will make your life alot easier. i'm sure there are a few things i left out and someone will add to in a few posts.
2. Heal bot is great once u set it up and learn the short cuts, most people use a Grid/Clique combo for healing so each to there own, Grid/Clique is more compact and easy to setup but heal bot works fine for 5 mans, just use renew and make sure u glyph it so it does better healing.
3. Do u drink every fight? You need to observe the 5 second rule, if u can pop a renew on the tank before the fight then sit and drink as the tank pulls by the time u needs a heal pop on the flash heals, then top up renew if it fades, once again it boils down to experience. Dont forget Mana Fiend use it love it.
4. Heal over time and AOE heals, renew is your friend. use it love it. once again experience and SP will help u out heaps and so will a couple of AOE spells, if your running out of mana dont forget u have mana fiend.
5. This is a tricky one, order of heals should go You>Tank>CC'er>DPS. if u are dead u cant heal, if your tank is dead, then if your lucky and your CC'er and dps are smart u can live through it. If its aggro based why u are dieing then pop fade, and PW:Shield, if its due to boss damage, try to rethink your positions, u dont need to stand infront of the boss just in range so u can heal, and dont forget to u can line of sight mobs too to escape damage. If i take damage i pope PW:Sheild, a renew then a fade, and a flash heal or 2 if need be and hope for the best.
Hope that helps u in any way.
Post by
Dechno
How the heck can you heal on bosses like Keristrasza in The Nexus
Dont forget to dispell her
breath
on the tank (DoT). And you wont die if you accidently stand too long in the ice buff, its only 100-200 DPS. Shield yourself to prevent the damage (and with glyph, you can heal while you shield).
On her enrage, get ready to heal the tank like hell.
Dispell (if neccessary) > Shield > Penance > Renew > Flash/Greater Heal and Pain Supression to reduce the tank's damage taken :)
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OscarDivine
Hey buddy.
So I've been healing something on the order of 4 years now in instances and raids. I hope in that time I've got some kind of knowledge I can impart to you.
First, I would recommend that you pick a healing spec and stick with it. I've been holy for a long time and go disco only for my raid when extra tank heals are required. As disciplines you really should be able to heal practically non-stop through any 5 man instance fight. If you cannot, you may want to consider that you have made poor choices for gear and have to rethink them. In an ideal situation, you should look to have intellect, spirit, and spell power on each piece of your gear. That means wands, rings, anything but trinkets. While leveling up stamina will be smattered around all of your gear pieces.
Making the huge assumption that you've both geared AND spec'd properly, let's continue. :-) After all, it's hard to drive a car well if you don't have a good engine. ;-)
So if I could gather from your post your three problem area are: 1) paying attention to everything at once 2) Gimmick fights 3) Spell choice. Let's tackle these one at a time...
1) It's very hard to see everything that's happening to everybody. However, that's what your Healbot is for. It allows you to check on all party members at a glance and decide what needs to be done. You may not have it set up properly. If it takes you setting it up to have super bright green bars so you can't miss it when someone loses even 2% HP, then that's how you should set it up. It's what I did. ;-) Also, don't forget to keep yourself bubbled when possible. Start each fight with a bubble on your self, a PoM, and sometimes a renew (if your tank is really taking a beating from lack of mitigation).
One thing I have yet to see mentioned in any of these posts so far is Prayer of Mending. This is an AMAZING spell you don't seem to be utilizing! It's a passive healing spell that does fantastic amounts of healing... AND YOU DON'T NEED TO WATCH IT! It finds a target and heals them FOR you! This takes care of SO many problem areas you seem to be having. If it's a fight where everybody may be taking damage constantly, throw one on yourself and hear it ding around. Trust me, a priest without PoM is like a car without side view mirrors.
2) Gimmick fights... Well short of teaching you everything about each of the fights, there's really not much I can do here but tell you to learn and adapt. That's what makes healing so difficult. DPS'ers only really need to change position and pew pew... That's about it. Healers need to pay attention, change position, heal on the run, and keep everyone alive when they get dumb and stand in fire!
3) Spell choice is extremely important as a Priest healer. We have the largest arsenal of heals of ANY healing class in this game. You said you don't know when to cast off that huge g heal? Well, to be honest, nobody uses GHeal much anymore by itself. It's only really used as a 3 stack
Serendipity
GHeal so only holy priests will utilize it well. If you're sitting there trying to spam off GHeals to successfully heal a group up... er good luck! If you are specing Holy, then learn to use serendipity. 1.5 sec cast Prayer of Healing anybody? Those are absolutely fantastic and I guarantee you that once you've masted Serendipity, you will feel like everything else is in slow motion. Same is true for Disciplines after casting a bubble, you get
Borrowed Time
. Learn to use these spells well and you won't have an issue with slow spells anymore!
sorry for the wtf txtwall. hope this all helps!
edit: I just had a thought about you switching from being hard DPS classes switching to healing... I hope you're not staring at the boss anymore. You shouldn't be looking at the boss any more than simply to make sure that you're not anywhere near them (unless strategy calls for it). You should primarily be looking at your bars. That's what we do as healers. Stare at bars all day, keeping 'em green...
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Post by
ignayshus
Practice in BG's, Normals and Heroics.
Knowing what the fight will entail helps a lot.
Having canned responses to problems helps as well.
- ie Everyone's really low - Shield tank, PoH, Penance tank, PoH again.
Post by
Crysania
You should change out the red gem in your belt for a spellpower gem. For the trinket, do Grizzley Hills pvp dailies for
Arcane Revitalizer
, nice sp and should help with mana on trash pulls.
For Greater heals, Divine Fury helps. Although until Blizz changed Serendipity in 3.1, I didn't really use Gheals in end game raids.
Prayer of Healing is really slow, and takes a large chunk of your mana pool. I wouldn't use it unless most of the group has taken a fair amount of damage. Try keeping Prayer of Mending up for aoe damage. I use PoM tracker, which shows you who it is on when it's up. (in case it gets stuck on a pet)
Drinking is part of being a healer, especially as you are leveling. If your group doesn't like it, they can bandage themselves.
For Keristrasza, I recommend using Flash heal over Greater Heal and keep moving when not casting FH. Keep renew up on your tank, PoM, and PW:S. I suppose Penance works well too, but I heal as Holy almost all the time.
If you have a mouse with extra buttons, use them. I bound PoM and Binding heal to my mouse so they're always at my fingertips. When you get in trouble, keep yourself and the tank up. Know the fights: if your dps constantly isn't avoiding what they should, don't waste you heals.
Skill and gear help, but you will only get that by trying. If you like healing as Disc better, keep at it. I raided as Holy in BC, leveled and started doing Heroics as Disc in WotLK, then switched back to Holy for harder heroics and raiding because I like it much better.
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Kaeldin
many replies didnt read even one xD
here is my opinion:
1 - Healing is not about intuition but about Cast+Jump Strategy, what do I mean by that? If it's a tought fight (like 3 mobs at once) the tank will often be hitted badly so always cast greater heal even if he is topped, if he doesnt get it until the end of the cast press "Esc" or Jump to cancel the cast... redo that and it will be easy, as Disc you just need to Shield, Renew, PoM then flash heal once in a while, penance replaces gheal in all 5-mans it has cooldown but i dont think its that great you can hold the tank with flash and PoM between the penances
2- Dont worry about overhealing just yet... It was more of a deal in TBC in WotLK we have good crit chance so often your crits will overheal the target, if you're Disc there no such thing as inefficiency xD unless you suck rly badly =P just do the spell rotation I will post later and you'll be fine
3- Its normal to drink if you dont have that much of a gear... In groups where there is no CC the Disc Priest has to spam Flash heals, that is somehow mana inefficient, just gear up a little and you'll see your mp5 between pulls will be higher than drinks :P
4 - How to fight Keri? Easiest piece of %^&* in the world, today played first time in paladin in a friend account at lvl 80 did a heroic nexus we wiped twice in trash cause a stupid pull bug :S keri was pretty easy.... But you want to know about Disc, well in Keri is mainly about using short cast/instant cast spells: you have Shield, Renew, Penance, Flash Heal, PoM... I personally dont use Shield in Keri besides the tank, keep renew on members remember to Dispell the Chains or whatever it is do a PoM along the way it will top of all members of the party prolly, if you're in one target do Flash Heal and throw a penance at it (make sure they've healing potions ready too)... if the all group is at 50% use a PoH its long cast but you've some time to cast it... move right after you cast and you'll be fine... PS: This is a fight where mana easily goes down... you need to have a good DPS group and blow all your Mana Cooldowns...
5 - Download a addon called MikScrollingBatlletext... you can set it to show you in Large Large Large letters when you're low health and what % is considered low health... if you have that much of a trouble set it for 50%, you'll someday get used to heal you too and dont need the addon, Healbot its helpful in that too...
As Disc you should use GHeal very rarely... Keep the target with Shield (if its multiple targets Shield is not the way to heal them all), do renew to every who has aggro, then throw some PoM when the target has -3000 that should top him off in next hit, penance if its urgent and otherwise flash heals... PoH if its AoE damage, like you see gheal is only used in fights you have the "intuition" to guess when tank will be hit and do the cast+jump thingy...
thats the way I do things... does not mean its the correct one but I've been playing Disc for 2 years and half ;) only "mastered" it recently but i think you can use the spell rotation i told you and then improve it the way you want it with your own fight style
Post by
Aldones
I used healbot through leveling, and would recommend it to any new healer. Once you get a little more knowledge of healing, switch to grid/clique. As far as your bigger/longer heals, they need to be preloaded. If the heal ends up not being needed, move, jump, press Esc, or do something that cancels the heal.
With Prayer of Mending, that should always be cast once it's off CD on the tank (unless it's already on him). If it jumps to you, great! Priests have a built in spell that allows them to send PoM flying to someone else instantly. You would know this as Shadow Word: Death. The best part is, PoM will heal you for over every single point of damage you just took.
When it comes to my hotkeying my mouse, EVERY single healing spell I use is hotkeyed to it with the exception of Divine Hymn. As long as your able to manuver around shift/ctrl/alt, that gives you a total of 4 spells per button (up to 5 buttons on healbot I believe) that you can macro.
While I wouldn't recommend starting off like this, have core spells hotkeyed, and as you start getting used to those, program more spells in.
If anyone trys to tell you how they hotkey thier mouse, ignore them. I've seen over a dozen people post how they do it, and not a single person seems to hotkey the same way as I do! Do whatever seems most natural to you, and you'll find it works the best for you.
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