Comments on: Healing, Prayers, & Ulduar http://talesofapriest.com/2009/04/23/healing-prayers-ulduar/ A Perspective on the Raiding Priest Sun, 21 Apr 2013 08:24:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Anonymous http://talesofapriest.com/2009/04/23/healing-prayers-ulduar/#comment-208 Anonymous Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:22:52 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=60#comment-208 so just from trying this out a few times, my CoH heals are about equal to HN crits, so idk where you are coming from. Secondly, the disc gearing mentality for AoE is much different, stack haste and spamming PoH will put out alot of HPS.

]]> By: Anonymous http://talesofapriest.com/2009/04/23/healing-prayers-ulduar/#comment-175 Anonymous Mon, 11 May 2009 14:49:00 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=60#comment-175 Am I the only holy priest using Holy Nova? Especially in 10mans … it's pretty OP. I use it like I did CoH in BC .. spam, spam, spam. As long as your in proximity of your group it hits as hard or harder than my talented CoH right now sans the 6 second timer.

I save my CoH for targeting group 2 and use Holy Nova to AE heal my group… I rarely ever need PoH, except in those rare cases like you mention here are XT-0002.

Glyphed I'm averaging 4k heals on all 5 members in my group with holy Nova, no cooldown for 700mana.

I'm running a mere +2200 spellpower raid buffed.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-talents.xml?r=Thunderhorn&cn=Daxxr&gn=CITADEL

Dax

]]> By: Erin http://talesofapriest.com/2009/04/23/healing-prayers-ulduar/#comment-172 Erin Fri, 01 May 2009 13:52:00 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=60#comment-172 I started out with a Disc/Holy dual spec build (I have a soft spot for disc, as I actually raided as a disc/holy hybrid thru BC).

You can see my build here: http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?priest=0503203000000000000000000000235500032002152530005331251000000000000000000000000000&glyph=210119020306&version=9757

Reading my WWS for the week, GHeal had less healing done than my healthstones….I don't use it. Thus I was able to drop imp healing and Div fury. Most priests don't pay much mind to healing focus, but I've been extremely pleased with the benefits it provides in many ulduar fights. Spell warding is also VERY nice in here. My fully talented and glyphed renew is VERY nice, and PoH is one of my top tools (make sure you glyph for it).

Since yogg has been dead, and we're tackling hard modes, I have been using this http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?priest=0503203030000000000000000000235500032002152530025301051000000000000000000000000000&glyph=010719020306&version=9757 I call it my Body & Soul Bitch spec. The movement speed increase has been invaluable on tanks and raid members alike – make sure you talent imp shields so Disc priests don't overwrite it. I've also been using the GS glyph with this build and its a nice combo.

We actually only run one dedicated disc priest and one dedicated holy priest per raid – all of our priests, including shadows, are required to be profficent at another spec, so we can switch around on the fly as needed.

]]> By: Anonymous http://talesofapriest.com/2009/04/23/healing-prayers-ulduar/#comment-170 Anonymous Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:22:00 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=60#comment-170 I think the true testiment of either spec, is the healing composition your raid is tanking. In my particular raid group, we usualy have minimully 2-3 holy priests and 2 good druids taking care of AoE healing(with an occasional resto shaman). We also only have one holy pally with us, so our raids’ single target healing specialists is a bit on the low side. I think (in our case) it would be better to have a disc priest with the other holy priests. It is worth more to have 1 disc 3 holy, then to just have 4 holy. However, bringing more disc priests I dont believe would be better either.

At least this has been my observation, and its clearly known that thier is no inheret spec that is strictly ‘better’.

]]> By: Derevka http://talesofapriest.com/2009/04/23/healing-prayers-ulduar/#comment-169 Derevka Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:04:00 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=60#comment-169 Suffice to say, Discipline is a very viable spec. Is one inherently better than the other? No.

However, I’ve found that CoH coupled with the potency (and speed) of Holy’s ProH, may make Ulduar a bit more holy-friendly

]]> By: Anonymous http://talesofapriest.com/2009/04/23/healing-prayers-ulduar/#comment-168 Anonymous Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:32:00 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=60#comment-168 I run as dual disc/holy and swich often during a night, many times its easy to underestimate disc for the raid dmg heavy fights – while in quite many of them a disc spec works better – those big PW:S can be a real lifesaver.
In our first Iron Council kill i lost count on how many people bit slow to run out of things they saved,
At XT its easy to reach for the holy spec for the tantrum but those shields makes a huge difference at keeping people up.

However i find disc to be much less of a mt healing spec than before 3.1 – and more of a migitate dmg so people stay alive before other heals have time to land

]]> By: Ika http://talesofapriest.com/2009/04/23/healing-prayers-ulduar/#comment-167 Ika Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:48:00 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=60#comment-167 Thanks for sharing another post!
You’re really devoted to the raid success, and I admire that. I couldn’t give up on Disc just because Holy is definitely better for Ulduar (probably the same as Matt). We’re doing our progress slowly, but everyone is quite happy with his/her spec.
Maybe I’m just lucky to have an understanding GL, or we have like 3 good Holy priests on every fight, so it’s not that neccessary :)

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