Hey fellow Paladins!
I’d love to hear how you guys are handling aoe healing in the first few weeks of the expansion. Comment below with what level keys you’ve been doing and what you do when you have to heal up the entire group.
I personally like to use the hybrid M+ build: https://www.wowhead.com/talent-calc/paladin/holy/DANFBZRkUUFRJFKUCQAOVVRBRRUYhQQFgVDAAA
Essentially you maintain strong spot healing with double beacon while playing melee, but also have the ability to cast from range using your infusion of light procs on flash of light and divine favor on your party.
Trash is relatively straight forward, beacon on tank and melee dps while spot healing the rest of the party. Grievous isn’t really a problem.
On AOE heavy boss fights this week, I prefer to beacon the tank and myself. You need cooldowns for every AOE phase. For example, Raging Tempest in Nokhud Offensive I’ll wings + divine toll first storm phase, 2nd storm phase I’ll bubble myself and aura mastery, if there’s a third wings will usually be up again.
I’ve done up to +16 on some dungeons (Nokhud Offensive, Azure Vaults, Shadowmoon) and the rest I’ve done between +12-+14.
If you find yourself having trouble healing, you need to space out your cooldowns better OR it’s probably not a healing issue. Doing mechanics incorrectly, taking avoidable damage, or missing an interrupt is a surefire way to cause a wipe.
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Thanks that’s great advice. Thanks for also linking your talents.
This is fantastic advice!
Beacon of virtue is huge this week imo. Saved by the light can also be very useful with virtue for bosses that can take people below 30% quickly, it gives you time to recover since it will shield the 4 people that have virtue.
Virtue also allows you to react very easily to group wide damage or mistakes people are making, you can top your entire group with virtue+DT and recover from a potential wipe. Most of the big healing intensive aoe mechanics last 5-12 seconds, so you have virtue up for basically all of it (think storm boss in nokhud). It just allows you to top your group faster with less casts, like 1 wog+legacy LoD will top your group in a virtue window as well. So it is useful for this week where bosses are doing a ton of damage on top of grievous too.
That’s basically all I’ve changed. I usually take inflorescence but for this week I am taking legacy since it is a weaker divine toll inside of a virtue window assuming you hit everyone with the Lod, so it’s pretty strong overall.
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I don’t. I build holy power and spam Word of Glory. Unless everyone is lined up for Light of Dawn, there just isn’t an AoE option for us. You could run Beacon of Virtue if your tank is self sufficient, otherwise it’s double beacon and spot heal the other 3.
Ive healed keys in the 14 range with both the double beacon build and the virtue build, but I have yet to make it through a 16 without virtue. Boss aoe and griev is just too ridiculous. And I havent beaten temple 15 and above without a support dispel from a lock or spriest
BoV + DT = full health group
BoV + IoLFoL + WoG = full health group