I know Priests had Power Infusion back… some time ago, but I’ve only been playing one seriously since Legion, so I don’t have much experience with it. Which are the class/specs that benefit most from it in a 5-man dungeon? Or should I just look for whoever is doing the most damage?
To be honest there’s so much going on in mythic+ I don’t bother trying to keep track of who’s doing the most DPS. I just generally cast it on CD if I can on whatever the nearest ranged player is, on the assumption that they usually like haste, whereas I have no idea what melee players are up to.
I don’t really think you can go wrong so long as you cast it literally on any DPS. Even if it’s the worst DPS that just gives them an extra edge not to be so bad. 
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Try to time it with people’s major CDs. Look out for things like celestial alignment, trueshot, dark soul, and Ret wings.
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To add onto this, you can use an addon to track offensive CDs.
OmniCD is very good for this and you can select what to track - just track the most important offensive CDs and PI whenever you see one go on cooldown.
You track other players’ offensive CDs?
The idea never occurred to me, I feel bombarded trying to track my own CDs and the mechanics.
I track the DPS’s offensive CDs and the tank’s defensive CDs and have them next to health bars. Again, Omnicd is good for this because you can set up exactly what you want to track (for each spec) so when they join your party they’ll be in the same spot.
There are like 3 distinct tiers of skill here.
“Cast it on anyone”
“Cast it in the ideal player”
“Cast it on the ideal player at the ideal time”
Choose how optimal you want to play and proceed.
Or maybe it’s not choice and you just physically or mentally can’t. I know there are certain combinations of DPS optimization + raid mechanics that I just mentally cannot perfect what I’m doing, and that’s okay.
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The human brain can only process so much information and react to it.
100% I subscribe to the theory of not worrying about marginal issues. This is a very marginal issue.
It’s orders of magnitude more important to manage your own abilities than to worry about the ideal player and timing of this buff, which you know, might even confuse the DPS player in some circumstances with unexpected haste.
YMMV but I wouldn’t give this issue a second thought unless and until someone specifically requests PI from you on a particular timing.
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So the thing is, this is your own ability, and it absolutely can make packs easier.
PIing a hunter who just popped Trueshot, or a DK who just popped Army can let them burst up to 20k DPS. That is a considerable amount of damage and speeds up the key - and in M+ specifically, you can look at damage/speed as the number of mistakes your group can make.
Meanwhile, if you wait till trueshot is gone before you PI them randomly, they might burst ~10k and have PI hold them at ~8k.
It’s something you can mentally write off if you want, but this isn’t like a marginal increase in damage. PI is a huge buff.
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ERT has a built in function to let you track dps cd’s my fav targets are fire mage during combust, hunter using wild hunt, or monks cuz the damage never stops.
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Well, in the game I play absolutely no one is giving me credit for even casting PI on cooldown, let alone scoring perfect timings.
I was actually impressed looking at a recent raid log that I did manage to cast it every time it was available. Win.
I can appreciate that theoretically it can make a big difference to nail the perfect timings. But that’s way beyond the scope of what I think the vast majority of healers should care about. There’s already too much going on.
I know bro, but the highest key you’ve done is 8 and 7/10 normal Nathria.
The demands for timing a +14 and a +7 are very different, orders of magnitude. That 5-10k difference in burst for 25 seconds adds up over 25 cycles of using your CD to be a significant amount of time.
Like there’s nothing wrong with how you play the game, but the game you are playing is very different when it comes what is asked of a player.
And besides, OP didn’t ask what the vast majority of healers should do. (Have fun playing a video game). He asked what he could do to optimize!
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you dont need credit for a good pi, thats just silly.
that being said you should know when to cast it as utilizing it to its fullest extent will help you kills everything faster.
the majority of healers should care about that because efficient dps kills bosses faster.
I think there’s 4 tiers the first being remembering to cast it.
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Well, on the one hand, many people here are saying PI is this essential utility, the key to victory in challenging content.
On the other hand, I don’t see groups going, “Wow, we absolutely need holy priests (or any priests) to clear this because without that PI buff at the exact moment, we’ll never clear this DPS check and/or pack.”
So I don’t think it’s silly when of course if it was such great utility worthy of all this effort to keep track of, you’d think it’d be a much better selling point and/or priests would be dominating the mythic+ scene.
But sure, you can min/max on this just like everything. I guess my perspective is what’s going to work out in PuG-land with players that stand in all the bad and can dip to 1000 DPS, that’s what I’m worried about optimizing.
I understand that, but he came here and asked how he could use Power Infusion more effectively.
He didn’t ask “does it matter most of the time?”.
So we answered him with an objectively correct answer that improves damage and you’re celebrating playing inferiorly.
And, correct me if I’m wrong, it’s because the strain on your focus is such that it interferes with the rest of your gameplay. And that’s fine, but there are plenty of players who ARE very capable of a material improvement like this at no cost.
OP wants to be a king and you’re arguing that he should be a happy peasant.
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I usually cast it on CD but if I knows boss fight is coming soon I’ll save it a little for that because I know on Tyrannical weeks DPS save their big CD’s for boss’s
It might not be optimal but it works for me.
Fire Mages love PI. Most of our damage happens within combustion so the extra haste is lovely. More haste means more Pyroblast which is our biggest dmg ability.
MM hunter gain the most dps from aoe.
DK>Single target.
If you play with a Fire Mage you basically give them PI when they have Combust up (they get all orange and glowy) and they can just delete trash packs.
Your human brain*
You do you, but stop telling other people what they can and cannot do because you can’t do it.