Just started leveling a holy priest, and I’m torn on wether or not to take this talent.
I love tossing out renews on lightly damaged targets so I can focus on the tank or anything else going on. A 12 second cooldown is going to put a stop to that. Granted, it does increase its healing by 60% and provide a CDR on use for another ability, but…
Renew in general just feels handy to have on the go. Is anyone skipping over this talent? Should I?
It’s not used for the healing. It’s used for the reset on Sanctify. That’s basically all it is for.
60% bonus on effectively nothing is still nothing.
I finally caved on it and took the talent. It’s nice in that it gives whoever you put it on a small cushion while you work on someone else, but it’s still by no means a game changer.
Was definitely seeing renew do more for me at lower levels, but that drops off pretty quick.
Like the guy above said, its only usefulness is to help reset the cooldown on Sanctify. This is especially true as you get geared because your Mastery will apply a very short Heal Over Time on people but that does nothing for Renew. Renew is not affected by Mastery.
I don’t think it’s very good or worth using personally, but really unless you’re doing bleeding edge content I also don’t think it really matters what you take. I stopped using empowered renew because I felt like I’d rather be able to use renew on demand to apply premonition of solace than to use it for resetting sanctify. Archon builds obviously don’t need that utility.
As I don’t really raid heal, I could see it being more useful in raid settings when you want to maximize how often sanctify is up with the fewest spell casts.
The synergy you get from applying multiple renews across the group/raid to benefit from holy mending and renewed faith (previous two talents) is quite impactful in my opinion, especially if you’re already running a prayer of mending heavy build. Holy Mending does apply echo of light as well, so even though it’s not a very impressive heal, it will refresh the echo of light HoT if you already have it up on someone.
I also think Holy Mending heals for twice as much as the tooltip says.
I prefer to not use it. I find it more valuable to spread 6% heal buff on all party members inbetween burst windows than it is to have a small reduction in the cooldown of sanctify. Sanctify is pretty bad as an aoe heal as it is. Holy is better equipped to cleave heal aoe events and having a renew on all party members giving them a 6% heal buff is just better.
Again, I think that talent increases the healing done by Renew by 6%, not that people with Renew receive 6% increased healing. Am I wrong about that?
Sanctify is a great spell for raid healing, hands down. Top 5 to Top 3 in HPS contribution.
Yup.
With renewed faith, when you heal a target with your renew on them whatever spell you healed with heals for 6% more.
Functionally, renew always gets that buff, but it applies to all spells you hit them with while renew is on them.
I guess I’m changing my M+ talents!