After I got to +6 keys this week with Tyrannical, I realized the Prayer of Mending focus build for Archon was NOT enough. I’ve switched to the West side of the tree to get the Prayer of Healing focussed talents, and its working out great!
The key with a lot of AOE is just preventing death while its going off. After you get through it, you go back to your regular heal spamming. Do a quick Sanctity, Circle of healing, and if you talent into the little Helper, you’re going to get a quicker cast, cheaper, and stronger Prayer of healing that will cast at 50% effectiveness again. I spam 3 to 4 Prayer of healings while the buff is up, then go back to whatever I’m doing. Its been great so far.
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No offense but this seems trolly. You’e talking 5-7 million health bars and PoH going off for 85,000.
Gonna call BS on this one.
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Yeah… POH sucks. Theres no way you’re using that vs AOE.
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I actually tried it in a raid, where I would spam poh to top ppl up whenever their health bar dropped at all, and went all in on providing free renews and empowered circles. Circle of healing did decent heals but poh did so little even when focused. I was also quite low on mana and this was the first H boss, it noticeably felt inferior.
Prayer of Healing is worse than Flash Heal with Trail of Light and Binding Heal talents. It’s worse even when all five people hit need to be healed. It’s worse when you have all the Prayer of Healing talents. It costs more mana, it takes longer to cast, and it heals for less.
Perhaps the mana and cast time would be a bit better with the CoH talent and then spamming PoH afterwards, but it’s still not going to heal as much as Flash Heal with the talents.
And that’s again assuming that all five people hit by the spell are injured.
That doesn’t include the extra 15% crit chance you can get from Flash Heal with two talent points. It doesn’t include Lightweaver. It’s just a terrible spell that has, as far as I know, no use.
It is worse that just about anything else in our spellbook.
Not trolling. First, POH is not a “Fill health bars” cast. Its a “Prevent health bars from dropping” cast. Second, you need to use it after a holy word and COH. Third, I only do about 3 casts on average before switching back to other heals.
You do not often have to get health bars back to full immediately. What you need to do is make sure bars are generally sustained, and aren’t dipping into danger territory. I find most AOEs happen over time, and if you use this while the AOE damage is incoming, it mitigates the overall damage to manageable.
But with this, I finally feel like priest can handle AOE again in mythic + without needing Halo on every cooldown. Prior to this, I felt AOE damage was often times panic territory. Not so much now. Healing is not always about HPS. Sometimes its about the right application of healing at a given time.
…Or they can just bring us in line with the other healers who aren’t having to spit PoH’s for 85,000 healing into the wind.
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I don’t think we should be antagonistic towards others.
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Its ok. I’m used to the internet by now. 
I know for every one or two grumpy people there are countless more like you who never say anything.