We’re a few weeks into H LK 25 and to test our options our healing lead asked me to switch to Disc so that our healing makeup was something like 1 Holy Paladin, 2 Disc Priests, 1 Holy Priest and a Resto Druid.

With the 2nd Disc priest (me) we were able to see some of Phase 2 for the first time. I think that I’ll always be Disc for H LK and I’ve also been invited to a 10 man to do H LK as the sole Disc Priest.

I’ve got a near BiS Shadow set but no healing gear: what kind of gear/set should i build for this fight?

I’m primarily there for bubble support (the main spec Disc priest says she has to help with the tanks quite a bit). So surely I don’t need much Haste for all those instant spells?

Sp and then Critical Strike?
Sp and some regen?

What would you recommend?

2 disc priests do make it much easier. providing they can play well together and be “smart” – when we do this, we start by making sure we are placed on opposite sides pf each other for initial position (ie north/south since we set up HLK25 in the center and horrors are tanked east). We split coverage (ifor example, using GRID groups, I’ll grab groups 2,5, he’ll grab 1,3 and we’ll overlap 4). We communicate who we can and cant reach due to shadowtrap movement, and we make sure we can see each others shields on our raid frames.

The one disc/holy combo works just as well- The burst healing style is amazing – but again – play smart. They can’t wait for defile to hit, THEN heal. Have a full serendipity PoH/CoH ready to go as the defile timer hits. Having a druid prehot targets and the shaman watching the tanks and melee for clean up helps as well.

The draw back is yes, it is harder, it is a bit more intensive, and it is a ‘clean up’ scramble to do it quickly. If you have 2 disc priests that are capable of staying on top of the defiles, that usually only leaves one or two targets to spot heal instead of many.

The downside to the 2 disc method is STAYING on top of the shielding – there’s lots of moving, spreading out, getting grabbed etc that can interfere with the blanket coverage. If they can stay on top of it, and your other healers are able to cover situations like a disc being grabbed & can’t shield, try it out. But it’s definitely not a thing you HAVE to do.

I’d like to comment on some of the things that Anna had to say earlier, the first being that I’m having a similar problem in ph3 with “rng” or “unavoidable damage” eating away at a part of my shield and finding 3-4 of my assigned people taking frightening ticks of infest that have to be removed before they can be reshielded for full benefit. If I try to single-target more than a couple of people, I find myself in a hole from which there is no escape: I simply don’t have enough gcds to keep 15 people healthy. I have been told that maybe I don’t have enough spell power (this is ludicrous–my gear is shamefully good) or that I should “just keep spamming–why is it so hard to press one button over and over?”

The valks do have a life drain ability that they cast upon players in ph3 after they have been dpsed down to 50% and fly back up. I can’t say with 100% certainty that people don’t get hit by that if our tanks don’t have aggro on all of them. I need to dig through some parses to determine what exactly is eating away at those shields. It’s also possible that defile ticks are more of a problem than people realize. The funny thing is that the very first infest cast in H-LK is always perfect: there might be 2-3 people ticking from infest. That’s all. No demonic pact there. I just don’t think this is a “spell power” issue.

I think the real question I have is–am I trying to do something completely retarded in “just keeping these 15 people alive?” There is a holy priest on another group and a shaman “dealing with melee” and batting cleanup. The more I research, the more I see that most guilds are running with two smart disc priests splitting the raid up: it seems like they have so much more time.

If you can direct me to more conversation on this problem, I’d love to see it!

Congratulations on your kills and best of luck in the future. I really appreciate the time you’ve taken to post this information.

Thanks again for the tips.

I orgasm every time an infest gives me 16k mana.

At the top, the thrid pulldown menu is “BINDINGS” Click the little “–>” next to it.

It will pull up a set binding menu. Hit “ADD”

It will ask you to choose a hotkey (ie the button you will use to activite this bind) – pick one that works with your setup and hit OK

Next, it will bring you to a few selections for transmit style – select USER TO USER and hit the [...] button. Select the user(s) you want in this bind (note: they have to be on vent to be selected) and hit ‘ADD’. When you have the pople you want in, Hit OK.

Thats it! Hit ‘ok” again until you’re out and test it. You can configure binds in the future just as you do servers, so if you decide to change hot keys, add/remove users, just go to the same menu.

You can also check the “mute’ others box – it will mute everything except the people in that bind when they speak via binds to you…comes in handy when you run umpteen binds to different people.

Now I’ve got some work to do such as making a specific Clique profile for LK, finding ForteXorcist and wondering how this will best work as a single disc priest…