So I’m entirely new to priest (my priest was a character boost I used from BFA), but I am a healer arena main - rsham.
I always found disc interesting, so now I’m leveling my priest to 60 (gonna do dungeons/pvp) but I’m quite confused on what spells to focus on - like on 1-5 action bar I have shadowmend, penance, holy nova, halo and angelic feather. I usually like to keep my casted heals around 1-5 (on rsham I have healing wave as 1 and surge as 2)
Thing is I’m not too sure how much holy nova or halo is even used. Or even what the general “rotation” is for healing as disc. I’d imagine shadowmend you’d be casting the most since theres no cooldown? I just find it weird to heal with a healer that only has 1 non-CD hardcast heal.
Everything else is bound, I just am not sure if having my heals bound similarly to my rsham would be good for arena (like all my main heals being on the main action bar 1, 2, 3 … etc.
Let me know, thanks!!!
This is why I rather level a new character and practice with abilities one by one in dungeons/bgs rather than boost
Smite, penance, purge the wicked, shield, shadowmend are your most used abilities
So, on the typical 1-5 ‘most spells used’ array, would my current shadow mend (1), Pennance (2), smite (3), SW:pain (4), feather (5) work? I have mindblast on F and SW: death on R - not that keybinds matter, I just want to prioritize the right spells to heal first.
I think what’s throwing me the most off right now is the nature of how disc priests heal. I see I should be doing damage too, maybe using pennance on enemies instead.
The main gist of disc is to get atonement up on your party members and then do damage to enemies which in turn heals your party via said atonement buff, you also have shadow mend as an “oh sit” heal but you mainly want to use purge the wicked, power word shield to get atonements up (or power word radiance for group wide atonement) and then start doing damage to heal - penance can be used to heal a friendly target if you are also in a “oh sht” situation as well. Use the schism talent and purge the wicked. Get a mouse over macro for power word shield and have fun!
Thanks for the info. Still a bit confusing as someone who only has played the healers druid and rsham.
So I guess I’m going to be targeting my opponents pretty often as well? On my rsham I have macros to wind shear arena123 and some set focuses, but besides that I’m not really damaging much. This means I’ll probably have more reason to bind target macros to enemies. I guess I do most of my healing by hitting enemies?
By the way, since rsham is good right now I was thinking of playing shadow at 60 to try out dps. Only thing I worry about are the potential nerfs to come, since people are complaining about spriests
Yes you will be constantly switching between enemies and your partners. I would recommend binding arena123 targets to comfortable binds (mine are on my mouse) if you are just starting disc.
Definitely different than the other healers, Gekz said he is trying to stream consistently if you want disc POV (his channel is just Gekz). Tickix has a very good disc guide Ticki Guide that has a rotation section, should give you an idea what you should be aiming to do.
Wow thanks so much for the info. And this guide is perfect, I could’ve asked nothing more. I have a lot of learning to do in order to get used to damaging people for healing.