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I’ve never healed before in WoW ever.
I’ve got my Priest to 21 and I have no clue what to do. No clue about add ons for healing or anything.
I assume you just click on the persons nameplate in the raid bar and drop a renew on them or hit them with a Penance/light heal.
What do you do for damage?
if it’s on the tank I usually penance, if it’s on another person I PoM + rank 1 renew…
If it’s on a tricky part of the dungeon/raid I keep fake casting heal to get a faster heal when needed…
heal in chunks to get the most benefit of mp5
I know you said priest but as a resto druid who loves healing, I’m also leveling a priest for the first time. The biggest thing that helps is some kind of mouse over macros or an addon. I use Vuhdo. This makes it so you can mouse click a heal directly on the raid or party frame. It’s so much easier to heal this way rather than clicking a person, then clicking a spell or pressing the keybind.
You say PoM but as a melee that means youre a priest who doesnt use Homuncul which is very bad. Use Homuncul on bosses please.
But the rest is good info thanks!
penance on need, pom on cd, and build serendipity in rough situations.
shield the crap out of ppl in pvp.
wand when you got nothing to do (or if you want to pull a boss)
Oh i didnt know mouseovers work on the raid frame nameplates.
Ill have to get that.
Thanks!
I don’t like parsing and neither my group, so the warrior can do their job and sunder armor while I keep my most efficient group heal
It’s not about parsing.
It just makes it easier for most people to do damage and kill the boss faster since you dont need PoM.
seconded. attempting to parse as a healer is trash. just dont take extra raid damage
What damage do you do to the boss in between heals?
wand, mind blast, holy fire, sw:p. depends on mana and group dps
it was a 1550 vs 1350 armor reduction in phase 1, not that much difference and I got to keep the PoM
wand / void plague
If you drop a void plague and then wand you’re doing more than enough. But the big thing is that on longer fights you don’t eat your mp5 by casting stuff that you don’t need to cast. If it’s a short enough fight and you don’t need to conserve your mana to heal, you could penance the boss or whatever or smite, but really wanding is more than enough imo
has anyone else realized how problematic shadow is going to be with penance in shadow form?
Healing here is so basic addons aren’t really needed. You’ve 2 maybe 3 heals.
Balance heals with mana cost and need.
Except warriors. Rage starved warriors are upset warriors.
If dungeon/raid wanding. Conserve mana for those oppsie situations. If pvp (and you’re the one fighting) it’s attrition. You’ll wear them down with dots, keeping yourself topped up with heals.
Why are you asking for help but telling those that tell you to use PoM (powerful healing spell) instead of homunculi is “very bad”?
Super L take btw.
priests actually have one of the more interesting toolkits via runes with the potential for very cool hybrid builds. power infusion spec should be very interesting next phase im excited about it
Also make sure you have an addon that shows incoming heals on the raid frames. HealBars classic works on Blizzard default frames. That way you won’t overheal as much. You also know how low the tank must be before you need to throw a heal.
As a priest it’s really important to take advantage of 5 second rule to get mana from spirit. So for example you start the fight with renew, PoM, PW:S as needed and then you chill and wand if you want while regenerating mana, until the tank has lost enough health to be worth being topped up with a heal. And right after your big heal you throw more shields/renews/whatever. You save mana by casting in bursts and regenerating in between, really makes dungeons faster by reducing drinking time, more than trying to DPS yourself.
I strongly recommend mouse over macros for all your heal and buff spells. Stick to penance and PoM most of the time. In AoE heavy fights you can swap your glove rune to Circle of Healing. You can drop PoM for Homunculi if you want to go more of a debuff/damage route if the incoming damage is low and party physical dps is decent.
Penance, PoM (sometimes), flash heal, renew, and greater heal (at 40).
I dont bother with heal, lesser heal, etc etc. They are worthless spells and dont need to be on your bars.
Flash heal is your bread and butter, dont worry about what the nerds who cry about mana say. Its your best spell. Learn to love it.
Downrank when needed.