Comments on: The Rise, Fall, & Rise of Disc Tank Healing http://talesofapriest.com/2011/11/03/the-rise-fall-and-rise-of-disc-tank-healing/ A Perspective on the Raiding Priest Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:19:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Discipline Secondary Stats | Tales of a Priest http://talesofapriest.com/2011/11/03/the-rise-fall-and-rise-of-disc-tank-healing/#comment-20611 Discipline Secondary Stats | Tales of a Priest Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:33:51 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=2184#comment-20611 [...] was a an additional 30% increase to our Divine Aegis creation.  This was discussed in my previous post regarding Tank Healing and the importance of crit, but it also applies to raid healing and our [...]

]]> By: kateybee http://talesofapriest.com/2011/11/03/the-rise-fall-and-rise-of-disc-tank-healing/#comment-20170 kateybee Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:28:58 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=2184#comment-20170 hiya,great post. somehow i just discovered you.
i was puging the new 4.3 5 mans on my aly disc priest yesterday. as i logged in at the trash before the last boss, the tank says”i hope you are better than the last guy”. then pulls the trash before i buff or drink or anything. i pop a shield, on him and start to build stacks with smite, a poh a pom later and only i am dead…to which they tell me “attonement is no good at this level”. I say it was fine the last few times i ran this, and with 3 tanks its hard to heal in any spec( the huntard and mage didnt like my sarcasm) then proced to pull the boss before i am ready but this time i used evey tool in the box and we came out fine. “L2HEAL” they say and leave group… with me scratching my head.
later i thought of this post and i had to chuckle. :)
kateybee/ proudmoore.

]]> By: Holysali http://talesofapriest.com/2011/11/03/the-rise-fall-and-rise-of-disc-tank-healing/#comment-20163 Holysali Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:48:32 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=2184#comment-20163 Also how i should go about reforging and gemming gear, i’ve got about 2700 spirit which is more then enough for more liking, i currently reforge anything extra into mastery, should i stop doing this and go to haste/crit?

]]> By: Niamari http://talesofapriest.com/2011/11/03/the-rise-fall-and-rise-of-disc-tank-healing/#comment-20155 Niamari Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:38:49 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=2184#comment-20155 My guild runs a 25 man we have 2 pally healers, myself as disc, holy priest, druid and resto shaman. Although sometimes our druid goes boomkin so we roll with 5, but even with 2 pally healers I’m often still put on the tanks if for nothing else my “inspiration.”

In times of heavy raid dmg, I’ll switch to healing up the raid while keeping a PW:S up on both tanks but leave the overall tank healing to the pally’s during that time. When the dmg switches to pimp slapping our tanks, I focus on stacking grace/shielding etc and leave the raid healing to the holy priest and shaman or druid.

In Firelands I was often paired with one of our holy pally’s like for H.Alysrazor, H. Shannox, or assigned to heal broodling soakers during H. Beth, again because of the mitigation that disc brings to the table with shields/DA etc.

Since this first week in Dragon Soul, I’m not sure if it’s the pally “buff” that took place in the patch or what but I would typically top our meters and now it seems like I’m barely keeping pace sometimes. I would consider trying holy but I’m not “allowed” to >.< haha. Have any of you re-prioritized your stats since going into Dragon Soul and if so what have you switched around? I'm mostly crit based and have little spirit to speak of, I even swapped it around to stack more mastery than crit and if anything saw a decrease.

Any insight would be appreciated!

]]> By: Holysali http://talesofapriest.com/2011/11/03/the-rise-fall-and-rise-of-disc-tank-healing/#comment-20143 Holysali Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:05:13 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=2184#comment-20143 Hi Guys

Since the introduction of Cata, I joined the train of going holy at the time. Since the introduction of the attonment spec i’ve been always unsure of how the ‘rotation’ should be, (knowing you don’t like the word ‘rotation’). At the moment, i’m not in a raiding guild or one that takes it seriously or yet do i have a role in raids, so at the moment i’m just doing alot of heroics, while trying to jump into raids when i can. I’m willing to go back to disc (i loved back at start of wrath) but as i said unsure how is the effective way to heroic/raid heal and how it is different to tank healing in that sense

]]> By: 4.3 Discipline Priest Compendium - Elitist Jerks http://talesofapriest.com/2011/11/03/the-rise-fall-and-rise-of-disc-tank-healing/#comment-20072 4.3 Discipline Priest Compendium - Elitist Jerks Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:22:05 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=2184#comment-20072 [...] Posted by Derevka Originally Posted by Derevka on Tales of a Priest "Rotation" I hate to use that word in the context of a healer. There really isnt a [...]

]]> By: Lionheartex http://talesofapriest.com/2011/11/03/the-rise-fall-and-rise-of-disc-tank-healing/#comment-19768 Lionheartex Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:33:53 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=2184#comment-19768 Ok, so that came out formatted incredibly wrong! I’m sure you get the idea though :)

]]> By: Lionheartex http://talesofapriest.com/2011/11/03/the-rise-fall-and-rise-of-disc-tank-healing/#comment-19767 Lionheartex Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:31:47 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=2184#comment-19767 I finally got my priest to 85 (Last class to get there too!).

The first thing I did was check out Disc – personally, being stuck in the Paladin Mindset, I picked up tank healing naturally. It’s very similar to Paladin healing in a sense, due to the spamming of Heal and GHeal – but, superior, like you said, because you have WAY more utility.

Penance rocks too, by the way.

Good to see your blog back D!

<3 Lion
Of course I had a lot of thoughts and misgivings and I'm like "I really wish Derevka hadn't closed his blog"… much to my surprise, you're back!

I really can't grasp Atonement. I mean, I can, but it feels incredibly awkward and I barely use it (Paladin mindset!). I might pick it up with more haste later on down the track – right now at a low gear level, it feels like I'm sacrificing too much time to get the buff running . But I can see how it would be extremely valuable in a lot of situations.

]]> By: Heather http://talesofapriest.com/2011/11/03/the-rise-fall-and-rise-of-disc-tank-healing/#comment-19755 Heather Wed, 09 Nov 2011 07:17:12 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=2184#comment-19755 I have a question. I am learning how to tank heal on heroic rags and I need help with my stats. Some say go haste/crit for faster tank heals, but isn’t haste not as viable as mastery/crit when it comes to 10 man? if anyone could help I would apperciate it.

]]> By: Isharu http://talesofapriest.com/2011/11/03/the-rise-fall-and-rise-of-disc-tank-healing/#comment-19745 Isharu Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:48:59 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=2184#comment-19745 Go Holy. I did Disco all other bosses, on normal and hc. I was scared as hell goin for holy. Its just a bit different, youll get it in no time. Aftert week or two you will enjoy the possibilities holy brings in. And lightwell, oh my lightwell..

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