Question about Holy's dps rotation

Classes Priest
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Its braindead easy i know, but i wonder how i should handle Holy Fire.

With Chastise i get two insta cast for it, but should i just consume them, or use them to refresh the dot instead?

In aoe i guess i can just spread it to other targets, but what about ST?

I do know they can be useful to do dmg while moving.

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Cast it pretty much ASAP in Single Target. Especially if you do the Apotheosis thing, you’re going to have such a long duration on that DoT that it doesn’t matter if you try to space it out or not.

I don’t have the numbers to back this up, but I don’t think you hard cast it as long as you’re still in Apotheosis. Outside of Apotheosis you would just cast it on cooldown.

I think it’s duration is so long that, after that initial burst from it, it’s not going to expire until the target is dead.

Open with Holy Fire, Chastise, Holy Fire, Holy Fire, Power Infusion, Apotheosis, Chastise, Holy Fire, Holy Fire, Holy Nova, Chastise, Holy Fire, Holy Fire, Holy Nova, and repeat that until Apotheosis ends and Chastise is on cooldown. Then cast Smite until Holy Fire and/or Chastise are available, and always hit your Holy Nova when it’s at full stacks. During movement, Holy Nova.

That’s damage for Holy.

P.S. Holy Fire will add time if cast on the same target repeatedly. It doesn’t have a finite duration.

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smite lowers the cooldown of chastise and its by alot during apotheosis i believe so id replace thos holy novas with some smites

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Holy Nova also reduces the cooldown of Chastise by 4 seconds, which is exactly the same cast-for-cast as Smite.

And Holy Fire also belongs in this same category because everyone should be taking Voice of Harmony anyway.

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So i should just spam Holy Fire whenever its available for the dmg itself rather than wait to refresh the dot with pandemic?

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It doesn’t pandemic. It just adds the full duration to the current DoT.

IE:

  • DoT has 1 second and you cast holy fire, it adds 7 seconds and now you’re at 8 seconds.
  • DoT has 7 seconds and you cast holy fire, it adds 7 seconds and now you’re at 14.
  • DoT has 14 seconds and you cast holy fire, it adds 7 seconds and now you’re at 21

Etc. If you’re spamming and you use Apotheosis, you can easily have a whole minute or more of Holy Fire DoT on a boss (though you should use Apoth for heals if you need it).

There’s no point in holding it ever - and you don’t need to change target unless the target you’re using on is about to die and won’t get full value from the DoT and another one in the pull will.