so for the longest time i used the penance leggo - as we never got to stone generals.
so now we downed stone generals and im doing the spirit shield ramp.
and I THINK my healing has gone down drastically.
it could be because i am NOT used to the different mindset of shield healing as it is just ramping up for the BIG incoming damage with the shield spread out to everyone.
and i know i need to prepare for it early. so as because i was a more reactive healer vs a now MORE PROACTIVE heals.
but even then i feel when the raid is at around 60% heals i struggle to help being them up with atonment and smite spam.
I’ve noticed the same behavior when I changed lego.
The gameplay is different, you focus a lot more on your spirit shell ramps than when playing with penitent one and you probably got to a point where you can cap you spirit shells too.
Basically you shield 5-7 people, then radiance > PotW > Radiance > SS+MB > DPS.
You basically shield most of the raid with that, with penitent one you can’t shield as many people so its more reliant on playing effectively with all your toolkit rather than focus on shield the whole raid at the right moments.
i use DBM
but heard from a pally friend to use bigwigs as that will actually be modifiable so i can have something large yell at me when i need to prepare for my ramp.
was wondering on opnion.
Completely agree. If you’re a reactive player, go Holy (I am). Nothing wrong with the spec. It can beat disc on heal meters. Unless you’re method and pushing MDI or world first mythic raiding, meta is not as important as matching your playstyle.
When I came back to raiding in WoD, DBM was overload for me. It actually impacted my ability to focus on healing. Switched to Bigwigs and been great for me ever since.
it almost sounds like youre using the wrong leggo entirely our Best one comes from sludge fist no stone legion, you make twin suns in M+ and Clarity of Mind for raiding.
With SS ramp, as you said, you wait for the raid wide damage moments.
Outside of SS you’re basically spot healing while the other healers take care to bring people back up.
Disc is way more about mitigating the big aoe hits and then soft heals until another big aoe hit.