I was wondering why the spell Heal exists or is used? the mana cost difference between heal and flash heal is very small so it doesn’t seem like it would make much difference, and the cast time is drastically longer which means using it makes your holy word come off cooldown slower than just using flash heal instead…
why and when is heal ever used instead of flash heal?!?!?!
It’s used if you are going OOM but that’s not common. Personally, I think it should heal for more (and cost a bit more) so there is more choice. And the only azerite trait that affected heal is dumb. Heal a bit more when lower mana? Yay conditional healing, and a condition you don’t want either.
I used to use it for filler but then why not just dps? Filler if you expect there to be a big damage spike and don’t want to waste mana on a potentially wasted flash heal.
If I’m correct on this the only current usage for Heal is with the pvp talent that boosts it, making the to-go spammable healing spell.
Other than that, yeah, I don’t even have on my bars anymore.
The difference in both the mana cost and the amount healed is quite significant (Heal is over 2x more mana efficient than Flash Heal). That said mana is often not much of an issue so unless I’m running low I tend to use Flash Heal more and DPS otherwise.
So in general Flash Heal is used more (at least for me) but there are uses to Heal as well: Most obvious one is when low on mana, but also I sometimes weave it in when ST healing and the target is not about to die right away, or I also like to pre-cast it when I know someone is about to take a hit.
This is for PvE mostly, I imagine it’s gonna be a lot harder to get the long cast off in PvP but I don’t really know much about PvP.
I usually spam it in M+
Basically never use it. Only comes in handy if I’m super low on mana and we’re mid pull (which shouldn’t happen anyway, I always chug between depending if I need mana or int for higher dps output).
It is an important spell to have when you’re in trouble, but rarely necessary.
It’s nice to use in a pinch or if your team is steady and you’re looking to top people off slowly while keeping up mana efficiency.
I spam the heck out of it in M+. Heal + Trail of Light keeps everyone topped off during light-damage moments while also being incredibly mana efficient.
Heal is the spell you use in light damage. You’re going to go OOM quicker than normal, if you don’t even have it on your bar.
Don’t flash heal/smite if tank isn’t taking heavy damage. Spam heal, (and FH if you get a SoL proc) if the tank gets topped off THEN dps.
DO NOT IGNORE YOUR TRAIL OF LIGHT. Its like half of a holy paladin beacon, yeah it isn’t as good but its still free healing and throughput if you can use it correctly.
If you have 2 SoL procs stacked up, you’re most likely doing it wrong. ALWAYS immediately drop that bonus FH unless you absolutely, positively need to be spamming PoH (or dispel, or feather to get out of bad.)