I want to be a PVP healer and tried playing holy paladin but was frustrated because i noticed that most of my heals didn’t result in a visually noticable increase in health. I’d see the healing numbers but the heals were so small most of the time that the health bar would have no increase in green. Is this an issue for monk as well and i need to get used to it or are monks heals stronger because they’re not instant?
Monk has decent hps (at least in PvP) but it’s only kind of not instant cast.
While you are channeling soothing all the healing is instant.
PvP MW is pretty strong amount of healing right now foe sure
Depends on your playstyle.
Soothing Mist+Following talent means your can channel SM and insta cast Vivify and Enveloping Mist. This is pretty good in teamfights where more than one or 2 people are taking damage. Youll see health bars move quite a bit.
Melee healer can be super strong for smaller (2-5) fights as you can blanket people and do decent damage as well while still healing
Ive done a few BGs as each and from my exp a mix of SOOM and melee heals works very well. You can get a person from 10-60+% in a very short amount of time and keep them topped off
Mistweavers move health bars better than hpals because we are a throughtput based healer while hpals rely on some immunities to make up their kit
You need to use Renewing Mist with the Chi Harmony talent and Enveloping Mist before doing significant heals to a target. These two together represent a 75% healing increase (flat) on a target, with a potential extra 15% if you’re running Zen Spheres. If you’re spamming heals don’t bother with interrupting the channel to reapply Chi Harmony, just spam Enveloping Mist which should reapply it (Rapid Diffusion talent) and hope for the best.
Additionally, make good use of your micro-cds for big healing. The current best build (I’m biased) is the hybrid build with Chi-Ji and Rushing Wind Kick. Using these together will give you 3 kicks that can top off your team each time if you hit 3 targets - which is pretty doable with pets and stuff like that.
If you haven’t yet, check if you’re running the good build for arenas. Check Meepmonk’s or Bankmw’s (he’s EU). You’ll know if it’s the arena build and not the blitz one if you see that “Jade Walk” isn’t taken (it’s not good for arenas).
You can absolutely do big heals without casting btw