Comments on: Demystifying Spirit Shell

By: Ruubik

Ruubik — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:53:20 +0000

I know I am late to this but I only just found the guide and it is awesome. I am only 75 so far but for the last 5 levels (Since I found this guide and the other one about pro-actively using cooldowns) I have changed my healing style and nobody has died and all runs gone so much smoother.

Thank you so much, and I am linking this guide/site everywhere I can!

I disagree with the above poster though, I use SS and PoM (Mostly) to keep shields up and Renew to top up anyone who wasn’t full before the cast. Re-casting PoM to re-apply the shield is pretty much making everyone invincible for 15s. It may be overhealing, but it creates so much confidence that the team is able to do things they wouldn’t otherwise dare. And of course it gives time for you to DPS

By: Victor

Victor — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 22:04:34 +0000

I’ve tried to potentialize the use of Spirit Shell, mainly on heroics, but once on LFR, but I really am not liking the way it works. Of course I haven’t studied it as deeply as you, Derevka, have done it, and probably didn’t test well enough as well, but here are my considerations:

If I use it on cooldown, it probably is wasted, because people/tanks won’t take enough damage to use all its absorption, so I’ll mostly need to apply SS (at maximum absorbing amount) twice, if not just once.

If I leave it to be used in moments of high damage, I always risk of having it wear off before I can apply it again, so people’s health end up going down slowly (by the damage taken between applies) and I can’t actually heal anyone until the 15 seconds have passed, UNLESS I cancel the buff manually. That, in my opinion, is not good mechanics.

I would think it MUCH better if, instead of just the 15 seconds duration, Spirit Shell had 2 or 3 charges, for example.

By: ApolloNik

ApolloNik — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:40:05 +0000

I have noticed the opposite with spirit shell. When you ramp up stacks of SS on the raid right before major AOE dmg (Black Phase on Zon’ozz, or RYB for Yor’sahj), you will see a huge spike of healing. From what I can tell, you are credited healing the moment the absorb from SS occurs so if 44k dps is going out, and your bubbles are absorbing it all, you should be healing 44k hps at that moment.

By: Ecktror

Ecktror — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 03:38:22 +0000

I like using it Archbishop Benedictus wave, since no one dodges it =p Nice blog Derevka, I’m hoping to see the weak auras for disc soon =) thank you

By: Derevka

Derevka — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:44:39 +0000

A very sincere, thank you.

By: Midnightstar

Midnightstar — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:49:07 +0000

FML, this serves me right for not checking this out. Gone through raid where I subsequently stacked AA and SS together always. =(

And I call myself a raider *blushing*

Thank you Derevka for this site, its my special haven as a Priest. And Im really greatful for all the hard work you have put in to give feedback to blizzard this expansion, and singel-handedly gotten us some changes we very much needed.
*Forever devoted fan, Midnightstar of Darksorrow*

By: Discipline Priest Healing in 5.0.4 | Heals n Heels

Discipline Priest Healing in 5.0.4 | Heals n Heels — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:51:22 +0000

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Post 5.0.4: Absorbing All The Things — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:29:55 +0000

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By: Yuba

Yuba — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:25:50 +0000

Yo! I’m thniking now on changing my meta gem to 2%mana pool insteed of spell crit. What’s ur advice in this point? Will it be just better since we all got 100k mana pool or tottaly stupid cuz of changing the mechanics of rapture? Remember that mindbender/sf still is affected by ur mana.

PS: ry if that’s not the right place to write it