I remember that as well lol. Disc priests aren’t known as much for direct heals, our damage and damage mitigation along with atonement healing is crucial. That said, if we do need to direct heal we are perfectly capable. It’s just we aren’t Hpals or Hpriests or even Rshams. It’s a different play style for sure, but a lot of fun.
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I appreciate your all’s help. I kind of think I always knew I sucked at this aspect of Disc, but to see how important it is really shines after listening to you all.
I’m so bad at multi tasking, I think this why I’ve just neglected this.
TBH you’re not a great flag healer. You can do it, sure. But you really want to join a RBG with a HPally to fill that role.
If you get stuck in a base with a FC and the enemy team is pouring in, your best options are to:
- Get up on a ledge. Chances are when he jumps they’ll follow and you can grip him back.
- Use every cool down known to mankind. Pain Suppression>Dome>Rapture with shadow fiend out.
- Fear
- Pray your offence kills their FC
- Hope the enemy doesn’t have a burst rogue
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Most of the RBGs I’m in have 2 of the 3 or all 3 healers fall back. So I’m never alone but with stacks it’s like a burst fest as we all know and I’m obviously not raid healing
It’s ok. Don’t be down about it, just keep practicing and you’ll get the hang of it! Don’t give up! The more you do it and work at it, the better you will get and the easier it will be for you 
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Thanks man. I almost refuse to bc I don’t event want to try to gear another alt right now. But it’s done by many other people so I knew this was 100% a me mechanic that needed to be fixed.
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Run some regular bgs with friends/guildies and get practice in that way. That would be the easiest imo, see what works and what doesn’t plus if something goes wrong you can have a do over and don’t get upset because mistakes happen.
I had to relearn how to disc because atonement wasn’t a huge deal last time I played it. I took a long break. It took some time but I got the hang of it doing bg after bg after bg.
Get yourself comfortable with it and I have no doubt you’ll excel
Good luck to you!
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What are the ilvls of the other priests you are comparing yourself to? Get an ilvl addon if you don’t have one. If their ilvl is way higher than yours that’s a reason for the difference.
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It’s also possible they were using Spirit Shell, which can pad their numbers while diminishing your own.
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yeah i didn’t have one back than. I know one was in 1800 ilvl gear where I was either at 200 ilvl or around there. But it’s happened enough it can’t just be Ilvl everytime.
This. Don’t try to find ways to improve your play, just look ways to make excuses. This is the Battlegrounds forum way.
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So if less information is better, is no information at all best?
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I understand what your saying bc we see excuses all the time. But I think he might also just be trying to get all the information.
gear really does help a lot both with throughput and mana efficiency.
Since you’re only about 207 i’d def play twist of fate+contrition instead of castigation. castigation+contrition is a build you play when you plan on playing ahead of the game. also Trinity just isn’t very good on rbgs because you can’t really heal through attonement because of the amount of dmg going out in RBGs, consider swapping it out for dark ark for team dmg or holy ark if you’re having trouble keeping up with dmg
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Idk i really enjoy trinity in bgs. It feels really good. Pre shield people before fight ull have most of them ready. Dot dot shield. etc. Pop arch half way through m,ake sure they are all topped. and then start rotating ur majors/radiance if high damage pressure is coming out. Don’t knock attonement healing. The other high end build i see played alot is the dark arch shell build. I just like trinity as the healing is still really good if u can manage it.
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Does purge the wicked break cc?
Found your issue. You also probably run out of mana quickly because you’re spamming radiance. I do this when I’m not actively thinking - it’s just an easy and fast spell to do. But you have to stop.
So, when I’m focused - you put shields on everyone (using the Trinity talent) to give them atonement. You Mind Games the group’s target, schism, mind blast, purge, penance, solace, smite, smite, smite. Big incoming damage = use Radiance to put spirit shell on everyone. Use radiance ONLY to put spirit shell on people and only do it when there’s big damage.
You’ll outheal people playing this way. And not only that, you’ll save tons of mana, do tons of damage and be a king.
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I don’t really have much of a mana issue, as i said before I use it on CD, and that’s not really true. I use it when I see 3 people at half health or 2 people about dead. Which can be about every CD some times.
It really comes down to I just need to do better with allowing Atonement to do more for me. But it is interesting how different people have different strats. Some use trinity and shield and some don’t. I’ll just have to toy around with it and see what works for me, but lesson learned is just get atonement up and do more damage.
Looks like i may need to relook at my keybinds again to make my damage spells more fluent.
I always assumed it did, it was another reason i wasn’t spreading it around (plus i’m just awful at awareness, and hopefully working on this will help me keep correct that over time).
The strat I just told you, is the strat that you should be playing. Of course, adjust when needed according to your legendary. But atonement should be your top heals. A good RBG leader will definitely call you out for it - as it has happened to me plenty of times. But I got my act together lol
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You don’t need amazing stats or a crazy high item level for disc.
Run trinity. Healing from atonement goes up from 60% to 80% damage done.
Radiance should be treated as a cooldown, not a flat heal.
Rapture is your best throughput cooldown paired with PI and you should be asking for innervate if possible.
Conduits aren’t all that important either.
Without a radiance conduit on my second priest I can reach 10k HPS.
I’ve also streamed here and there lately.
https://www.twitch.tv/doragodx
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