I feel as though I am constantly spamming flash heal, heal, and renew, which IMO feels sort of wrong, I know I should be using Holy Word: serenity but I’m not sure when, I’m pretty sure its when people are pretty low, i have POM on people constantly but I still feel like I’m playing this class wrong lol ik its hard to gauge how you’re actually doing in a heroic dungeon but still idk any tips would be helpful
Flash Heal is your most-used healing spell in a dungeon for the most part, you only use Heal if you have Lightweaver talented and Renew is basically untouched unless you are healing on the move and every other instant cast is on cooldown.
Get used to using Serenity as a standard heal more, it’s up very often anyway because Flash Heal/Heal/PoM resets the cooldown of the spell coupled with 4pc tier.
I hate using serenity, it’s a goos spell don’t get me wrong but people are dumb and move away from me. But when do I u see Apotheosis and symbol of hope?
More or less how Holy Priests work is based on a priority system. Your main goal is to basically reset your Holy Words as often as possible because Holy Word Serenity is your strongest single target heal and Holy Word Sanctify does decent group healing.
You want to cast Prayer of Mending and Circle of Healing (if you have it) on cooldown, reset your Holy Words and cast them when needed (you can store 2 of them), use Halo/Divine Star + Rhapsody (20 stacks) when you need some extra AOE healing/damage, and use your filler spells (Flash Heal, Renew, and Prayer of Healing) when everything above is on cd.
Apotheosis is a break incase of emergency button where you need to bust out a lot of healing. There’s no real proper time to use it other than when you feel like you need to use it. Some talents like Answered Prayers passively give you Apotheosis so you may get it every 1.5-2 minutes in dungeons.
You use Symbol of Hope mainly when your mana is <10% and/or if you want to reset the group defensives (which requires tracking them via an addon like OmniCD).
That’s one of the best times to use serenity. If they move away and they’re taking damage you can heal them back up quickly once you get in range
But yeah holy priest gameplay right now is centered around reducing the cooldown on your holy words
How do you do that exactly? reduce the CDs of holy words? I only know bad words.
Each time you use certain abilities they reduce the cooldown of their associated holy word. The most basic one is using flash heal reduces the cooldown of holy word serenity.
There’s a talent at the bottom of the spec tree that adds additional abilities that will reduce cooldowns, for instance prayer of mending will reduce the cooldown on serenity slightly too
Serenity has the same 40 yard range as Flash Heal though. Except it’s instant, so it’s far easier to use it to heal people that are skirting at your maximum casting range.
What abilites though? I don’t understand, is it flash heal, heal, and Prayer of mend?
At baseline with no talents:
Flash Heal and Heal casts reduce the cooldown of Serenity by 6 seconds.
If you take Voice of Harmony:
Prayer of Mending casts reduce the cooldown of Serenity by 2 seconds per talent point up to 4 seconds per cast.
Either spend 15 minutes and read your talents or stop trolling.
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how am i trolling lol i just picked up the spec yesterday
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One thing I’d like to know (PvP question here), is the use of Desperate Prayer. Is this only to be used as a way to recover my health, as my simply increasing the targets max health (not current health) for 10 sec, I then need to expend the required globals to fill the difference between their previous max HP and the new (for 10 seconds) max HP
PoM and CoH on cool down. Take renew and heal off your hotbars. Renew is going to happen organically off your tier and heal just isn’t worth the time. It’s mana efficient but not time efficient. If you have time to cast a heal that means the incoming damage isn’t critical and you should be dpsing instead.
The ‘ceiling’ of a good healer is how much DPS and cc you can do while keeping the party alive. Start practicing that.
To break it down as best i can:
1).Flash heal is your go to single target healing. You regen enough mana passively that you will rarely EVER go OOM in a fight.
2).Heal is almost useless in all fights, its efficient, but not something you wanna cast often.
3).Renew is good to toss out with super low damage, but it also triggers your tier set too which is nice, but your Sanctify’s and serenty’s do that already.
4). your AoE/party healing is tied primarily through sanctify, even if it catches 2-3 people, its a win. Triage healing is your next big thing. you have multiple talents that heal yourself, and others, as you cast flash heal. Trail of light, and binding heals, most notably.
5). Use serenity when someone gets hit HARD. Flash heal is great, but if you notice someone gets smacked for 300k, use it.
6). Divine word is fantastic for every and all situations. must have talent on a 1 min CD. What’s not to love?
7). Prayer of Mending is cute, but doesn’t do a whole lot in the grand scheme of things. It’s not as important this season.
Final words of encouragement/tips:
Using guardian on a low health individual, and 1 serenity is essentially a 10% → 100% health combo. Slap it on a tank before they take a bunch of damage to quickly top them off.
Your primary role, is reactive. someone takes damage? Flash heal. Multiple people taking damage, Flash heal Triage priority targets/sanctify. 1 person taking LOTS of damage, Serenity. Rinse and Repeat.
Only time recently I’ve used lightweaver or heal is on the third boss in hoi. Saved me a ton of mana and made it easier.
I was struggling with the same things as the OP. Great thread, I learned a few things that have helped a lot.
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