Everything seems like it’s garbage and the only tangible healing I’m doing is when I’m spamming heal and flash heal on 1 singular target. Is there some gotcha mechanic or talent I can pick that will give me a heal my whole party fast trick something with premonition or halo im not seeing? I’m running some zeros and just got back into the game and everything feels so terrible.
Nope, that’s how holy currently is. You “AoE heal” by single-target lightweave triaging.
Between Trail of Light and Binding heal you’re - sort of - healing three people at once. In the sharp drop off of 100% - 30% - 10%.
Sanctify doesn’t hit for nothing, so if the group is stacked use that. Ignore PoH and CoH entirely if you’re not in raid (and even if you are raiding you can ignore them then if your role is specifically triage or you just don’t like casting those spells.)
Holy spec is clunky as hell in dungeons and somewhat pigeonholed in raids, but you can do the highest level of PvE content (mythic raid and mythic+ up to the 14s) with it.
I will say healing is always hardest when you’re seeing new content. Once you’ve been back long enough to start getting more familiar with the damage patterns of the fights, things start feeling less frantic. Knowing what you need to pop cooldowns for will come with more game time, and that will help a ton. For example, having two Serenitys and two surges of light banked and at the ready before a big damage event lands lets you get your group back up to stable - if not full - in four or five seconds.
Most of your group healing is through single target heals.
The only AOE heals that Holy has is Archon Halo and Oracle Premonition of Piety. With Oracle and Piety there’s a trick involved with casting GS and then spamming single target heals on yourself. All the overhealing you do on yourself will burst heal your group from <50% to 100%.
Holy is very cooldown dependent to min-max the AOE healing so you want to rotate through Divine Word, Apotheosis, Divine Hymn (if you have it), and Archon Halo or Piety. You should have a button for almost every round of AOE damage.
What’s funny is even with Holy in it’s current state it’s still one of the better raid healers lol.
It’s mana efficient, it brings Fort, it has life grip and it’s not convoluted to play at all and doesn’t have any drawbacks really other than no or little DR.
True I do love how it’s straightforward. I do not like having to remember specific spells in a game full of hundreds of them to know when to ramp or something. I see dmg I heal dmg. Wish another class had that style of healing tho but it’s only holy
Holy priest is actually so bad right now that you have people coming to the forums convinced they must be doing something wrong when the spec is just THAT broken.