So I’m 99.9% a ret player
I want to find this season as holy, using light smith.
I’m not at all familiar with holy, cept shockadin which I guess can’t even be specked into.
As the title implies, I go oom really fast.
I have 3 pots which can give me a pitiful amount of mana back, but it seems they all share a damned timer.
The cave dwellers, algari mana, and the sustain one (I forget the name)
So how are all you managing your mana?
Take the talent Beacon of virtue.
Cast Beacon of Virtue
Cast other Holy Power generating abilities at the enemy
Spend the Holy Power you generated on Light of Dawn for group healing, Word of Glory for individual healing.
recast Beacon of Virtue on cooldown
Add in either a @focus, @targettarget, or @mouseover macro for anything you might need to cast that is NOT directed at the enemy.
Then just go ham on the BBEG.
Is this a detailed, well-informed manual? No. But start with this. Do some follower dungeons until you get comfortable with your macros and button placements.
if u are shock base build = Reclamation talent , it is critical for staggering your mana loss, if u are using judgment on top of that, u’ll need sunwell and Divine Revelations.
…and if u are still losing a lot of mana, stop spamming holy light unless you have infusion proc.
carry lots of mana pot, and learn how to heal without mana with just default mana regen. empty your mana pool and time the availability of your healing abilities. ← that will give u an edge.
the chest and leg enchantments that increases mana can synergize with your talent effects too.
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The best HPal guide out there.
Do any of the mana pots have no cd?
If so which ones, if not which do you recommend?
I feel like i struuggle to use any mana at all. Are you casting a lot of flash of light and holy light? You should barely cast those. Only when you get procs. Are you spamming beacon of virtue? That will drain mana. Learn pulls and when to use it
Do you type anything that doesn’t sound like nonsensical drivel?
start chugging it after hitting 90% then cycle it every CD, but still it defends. it’ll be easier if u are an alc.
Remove Light of Dawn from your action bar if you are doing M+, it’s just a trash ability. On Raids, I would do the same.
Choose Beacon of Faith to learn over Beacon of Virtue. You can change to Virtue when you learn the basics.
Put one Beacon on the tank and other one on a range class (hunter, mage, caster druid).
Your healing rotation should be like this: Judgement, Holy Shock x 2 and Word of Glory (WoG).
During Avenging Crusader (AC), spam Judgement and Crusader Strike (in that priority order), don’t bother to press Holy Shock during AC. Spend Holy Power generated into WoG or Shield of The Righteous (SoTR if team is topped with the rotation, WoG if you need to top someone).
When you feel more confident, choose Beacon of Virtue and for the love of God, DON’T USE IT ON CD. It will make you out of mana before the first pull dies.
Only use it before big damage events happens (reduce damage taken) and to top several people. Careful with this, because you can cast ~20 BoV before getting out of mana completely.
Use blessing of winter on CD (our only mana recovery ablity), ideally when a big pull happens. One bad side of Blessing of Seasons (summer, fall, winter and summer) is that you can’t time what blessing you get, it’s just luck. But if you have Blessing of Winter (blue one) ready, save it for an important pull or boss fight and use it when your mana drops below ~95%.
On emergencies, use Lay on Hands (ideally with BoV to max it, Lightsmith reduce it’s cd to ~3 minutes aprox) and Blessing of Sacrifice on tanks. Lay on Hands, BoS and Blessing of Protection on DPS’.
Try to never, ever, do a hardcast unless you don’t have any way to save someone. The same time you take to cast a Holy Light, you can use it to pop horse, get closer to the target and drop a judgement or get Holy Power for a Word of Glory, and you save mana doing it.
Remember that to make AC/Lightsmith work, you need the talents:
Aha
Thank you
It’s the virtue spawn that’s killing me