Comments on: New MoP Glyphs, Lightspring, and Spirit of Redemption

By: tuckerbee

tuckerbee — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 22:43:41 +0000

When working on Heroic Spine last night I decided to apply the glyph of renew… I was blown away… serenity healing with this little gem was incredible.. Renew was my largest heal for every pull after that.. It even beat out Divine Hymn. If you use serenity chakra, you MUST try this glyph.
Happy priesting…and thanks Derevka for a great blog

By: Iavasul

Iavasul — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:27:16 +0000

I’ve been playing mostly discipline the past two tiers and one of the nicest uses it has is Power Infusion when things get a little tough. It’s been that extra cooldown that holy lacks.
Depending on the fight it’s very difficult to click on a lightwell and those fights usually have a lot of damage.
The glyph might be a nice way to give holy a minor extra cooldown for harder hitting times.

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Wed, 16 May 2012 11:10:03 +0000

[...] Good ol’ Derevka has already written up a thorough first look at Lightspring in which he points out many of the spell’s limitations. In the post, he points out that Lightspring only heals targets at less than 50% of their health, and it has a 5-second cooldown between heals to prevent it from being used as a raid cooldown. To read the rest of Derevka’s write-up and see his comparisons on the numerical output of the two spells, head over to Tales of a Priest. [...]

By: Spiritual Guidance: Lightwell, Lightspring, and the latest on priest healing in Mists

Tue, 15 May 2012 18:01:48 +0000

[...] Derevka's write-up and see his comparisons on the numerical output of the two spells, head over to Tales of a Priest. Holy priests in need of more love Discipline has shaped up into a rather complex spec at this [...]

By: Forgotten Children | Blog | Spiritual Guidance: Lightwell, Lightspring, and the latest on priest healing in Mists

Tue, 15 May 2012 17:03:10 +0000

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Tue, 15 May 2012 16:08:36 +0000

By: Derevka

Derevka — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:30:24 +0000

Regarding Spirit Shell… Yes. We just have to wait a build or two to get to a more ‘final’ version, as the current new version is still very buggy and not quite where it is supposed to be. (ie. Crit/Mastery scaling)

By: Sathéa

Sathéa — Mon, 14 May 2012 08:47:55 +0000

I find your idea for SoR as a usable brust spell outstanding. I don’t like the actual form of the talent either though Renew’s too low HpM lead me to swap improving talents for Renew to SoR and others. Failing to get free heal is in my opinion something completely opposite both to raiding and healing spirit. Especially in 10M rainding where any failure often results in a raid wipe. Having such a usable spell would be a great thing for SoR but I think this would also implies to put back PI exclusively for Disc as 25s free heal under 30% haste could be to much of a burst ability especially considering the use of Serendipity.
On the other hand this could make Holy priest stands out a little bit in 10M raiding since Disc is often prefered because of its preventive ability and raid/tank CD (as an example: GS being ineffective on Heroic madness Impale…). I wish MoP could introduce fights where Holy Priest is vital just as Disc was for some Cataclysm fights.
Now for the part on Lightwell vs Lightspring I also agree with you that Raid that know how to use it should be in a way rewarded with higher healing potential from the spell. However Lightsrping is as you said also an opportunity to make Lightwell fully (let’s say more) viable in LFR situation or in guild where it is hardly used. Getting my guildies to use it is an every second fight inside the fight and not always work though. However in fights such as Heroic Spine it is a great pain reliever for healers’ mana as well as a life saver during Fiery Grip lasting too long.
Anyway I think Lightspring should be given a try and ideally should be made fully viable for some fights.

Great post as usual, keep it up.
By the way: are you planning on discussing the new version of Spirit Shell on the curent beta build? I personnaly find it interesting both as a preventive spell before burst situation (an improve version of PoH DA spam or so) as to soak up heavy burst situation while other healers are getting the raid up.

Ps: sorry for my english mistakes, I’m getting rusty >.>

By: Burizichu

Burizichu — Sun, 13 May 2012 20:53:39 +0000

Lightwell and I have a very love/hate relationship. My raid team either doesn’t use it or uses it before the pull to lower it’s stacks…. Just because they think lightwell is extremely trivial. Believe me I’ve tried to explain how good the heal is but of course they don’t listen. The new glyph has a few fatal flaws for me. I don’t like how the target has to be below 50% HP to get the heal, to me that seems like the charges would be wasted. Not to mention that the heal doesn’t scale nearly as well as regular lightwell does on live. Helping lightwell would be very easy if done correctly. All the devs would need to do is make using a /use lightwell macro actually work or add an extra button to the ui so lightwell would be easily used. Also only let lightwell be used when in combat and below 90% health. That would only help me and my mean guidies though XD. Thanks for the post derevka great as always