Hello All
Sorry if this post seems a bit odd but I need some Holy Priest healing help. I want to be up front and say I have tried to read guides like on Wowhead and icyveins and such but I suffer from mental understanding at times so I guess I am not grasping what I am reading.
I will say I truly do enjoy the priest and my only goal really is to clear normal each season and maybe mythic 0 or low keys I am not interested after 20 years playing pushing anymore. But I am new to the priest as I needed something new. Well new 20 year in when it comes to healing.
Anyway I seem to be doing things wrong as my healing seems very under performing. First in Dungeons I am using prayer of mending, holy word serenity or sanctifyfor something quick and a combo of flash heal and greater heal. Two issues I am having is when someone gets about half way down in health it seems my heals barely move their bar towards full health. Am I not putting things in order right? And if everyone starts taking damage it seems they are screwed unless they are all right on top of each other for sanctify
Then in raids. I was in LFR and getting blown away by other healers on the chart. Again maybe I misunderstood what I read but lots of prayer of healing and halo being used with lightwell thrown in?
Any guidance would be much appreciated really. I was told this was one of the easier healing specs to learn for a new healer.
If anyone needs to look at my toon to help it is Crossblésser on daggerspine , You make the one E with alt 130 . Forums been giving me issues lately with trying to post under different names
Your item level is really low so that’s probably the biggest problem with your heals just not moving bars. It feels better when you get more gear.
Everyone taking damage is just not a great situation for holy priest as none of the aoe healing buttons are worth pressing at least not in dungeons. You can use sanctify if you have it up but it’s not going to actually heal a group of people up. Prayer of healing and circle of healing are not even on my bars; they are useless spells. You really just have to spam heals on people. Flash heal and heal with lightweaver and serenity as well as using your premonition buffs.
Also for raid anyway you’d probably do better just going Archon but it’s not very good in dungeons. You would also want to take Divine Hymn and Holy Word Salvation and use them when the raid is taking heavy damage.
Holy priest requires you to kind of spam buttons as opposed to like a totemic resto shaman which is sort of the opposite where you’re more methodical about it because you’ll go oom in like 1 minute if you aren’t careful on shaman, but shaman group healing and single target heals are a lot more effective.
Holy priest is just kind of garbage but single target healing shouldn’t be a real weakness. Moving one bar at a time is pretty easy to do if you get a little more gear.
Honestly. Reroll. I’ve had a Priest for 20 years and it’s in a terrible place atm unless you want to play Disc cause at least then you get some variance in playstyle. Holy of both the raid and M+ flavors are just…at least in my opinion, in the most unfun and powerless state I’ve seen ever.
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Holy priest in dungeons is weak. Their kit is more in line with big group healing and they have very little, aside from Flash Heal + Heal Spam to do much.
Disc is stronger in dungeons, maybe give that a try.
As for Raid, holy priest is very strong.
You rely a lot on your Mastery for Echo of Light.
Spamming Flash Heal then Heal with the buff from Flash Heal.
Halo for any group damage
Keep Prayer of Mending rolling
Serenity and Sanctify when you feel like it or one person is low
And Salvation early on before big damage
Without logs or knowing what dungeons you are doing it’s hard to give feedback. If it’s timewalking it could be an issue of scaling. If not, you could try a different build. You’re using a meta build that’s meant for consistent M+ groups. If you’re having trouble with groups in your random dungeons (which I assume they don’t know what they’re doing and don’t use defensives) try this build:
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Power Word: Life is usable on 50% health targets (Miraculous Recovery)
20% heal increase on 50% health or below targets (Desperate Times)
PW:S does a small heal (Crystalline Reflection), which you PW:S everytime you PoM (Assured Safety). This one is kind of whatever and mostly a small bonus when you’re using Insight on PoMs.
Since you didn’t mention them, use your cooldowns. Don’t sit on 2 charges of Premonition. Power Word: Life works with Insight if it’s that desperate.