Quite simply: How do you know what to use this on in M+? Is there an addon or Weakaura or something to tell you what to interrupt? Is there some easy way/mechanism for learning this?
Use it on a mob as if you were fearing it to stop a mechanic. Same concept
Talking optimizing not just doing. You often get packs of mobs casting stuff. The question is, what spells are the most damaging to your group and hence interrupt-worthy to optimize your interrupts? That is outside of learning every spell cast by every mob in every dungeon! And where would you even find a concise guide for that? Some mobs even just begin the cast again when you interrupt them. That is not good.
Don’t most people usually take the talent that makes Chastise a real stun? Solves that.
I think it really depends on the group. If you have group members that are consistent at locking down corpse harvesters, houndmasters in HoA, and other stuff, then you can pretty much use it on whatever you want. If the group is pulling big packs, you probably want to use it on a high priority ability like Goresplatter or something, but if the pulls are smaller and the rest of the group are pretty good at high priority abilities, you can use it on something lower down the list. There are a few abilities that can’t be interrupted, and need to be stunned- like the Houndmasters’ angry dogs cast, The Jagged Quarrel casts in ToP, etc. so when applicable it might be good to focus on those instead of the ones that are interruptible by the rest of the group.
The issue you will run into in PuGs, is that how often you have chastise available is dependent on how much you get to Smite. I think it’s harder, again, in PuGS, to fit Holy into a rotation when how much healing they are doing from pull to pull, and how much CDR on Chastise they get, is variable.
Naw, most take Shining Force. Especially this week. It is great vs Spiteful mobs. It has saved me and others countless times. As another example, Shining Force is also great at HOA and you can save many a smart tank with it. It is also critical on the first boss at PF, not to mention the exploding mobs there. It is also good to use on mobs at SOA to position mobs in a pack for AOE.
You can use it otherwise to save yourself and others in lots of cases if you learn to use it well.
Perhaps you are right though and I am mistaken. Currently though most top Holy Priests are using Shining Force. That said, I have only started playing Holy in SL recently and used and learned to use Shining Force as Disc. Im not sure if the top healers swap for certain dungeons or affixes either.
Oh for sure. It’s hard to get a lot in when you are spam healing. The trick though is that if you interrupt a lot you dont need to heal much and can do a lot of dps. On an aside, that is what can make a good/skilled resto shaman a standout. The potential for them to do a lot of interrupts makes for a minimum of healing needed and more time to pump dps.
So this might just be the way i read text, but you are asking for help in regards to what you should chastise? That comes with experience I’m the dungeons, group comp, and how comfortable you feel to constantly use it. Back when I did KSM with my hpalli buddy he would always stun a random caster since the tank and us dps would normally be going Mongo stunning and taking care of the priority add.
Absolutely. I am trying to up my game. I was just wondering if there is an addon or some weakaura to help. In my case I healed hundreds upon hundreds of dungeons in the first two patches of SL as a disc priest–which does not have the spell Chastise on their toolkit. Hence, I did not pay any attention to interrupts. Now playing holy, I am doing fine, and do try to interrupt, but feel as if I’d do better and learn faster if there were something to help on that.
No addons really to help other than having something like little wigs or DBM installed that will beep at you, and making sure you have good nameplates where you can easily see casts. Set up a mouseover macro for chastise as well.
Other than that, it’s just learning the dungeons. If you don’t have friends you play with who can help you identify what mobs are deadly, you could try logging your keys and seeing what others in your group are interrupting and dying to, or just go look at some logs of other keys to get an idea.
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