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Surge of Light

Surge of Light
Requires Priest (Discipline, Holy)
Requires level 45

Your healing spells and Smite have a 8% chance to make your next Flash Heal instant and cost no mana. Can accumulate up to 2 charges.

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Dummy
Value: 8
Server-side script

Effect #2

Unknown Effect (Effect #0)
Value: 20

Effect #3

Unknown Effect (Effect #0)
Value: 75

Flags

Passive spell
Cast time is hidden

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Healing Priest Guide (Disc/Holy)

Warlords of Draenor
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Comment by tarthur1

EDITTED AGAIN so as to be up to date:

Depending on your spec, this talent can be great. For shadow, this makes you a touch more mobile, especially when fighting two or more mobs. When combined with Divine Insight, you will have quite a few instant Mind Spikes from this, and Mind Blasts from the DI. Although I dual spec between Holy and Disc and have less end-game experience with Shadow, I think I recall that Solace and Insanity (from this same tier of talents) offers best dps when used for static battles, and the utility from this shines best when moving more frequently.

For Disc, I can't say that I've had much luck with Solace and Insanity. When atonement healing, I find Mindbender to be the best option for mana returns as it actually returns mana, while this talent simply conserves mana (though an instant Flash Heal can be good if you react proactively, I ultimately find atonement's smart heals are simpler, so I tended to skip many of the Flash Heal procs anyway, though it should be noted that using the flash heals over casting smite does allow mana regen to happen when atonement healing during the GCD, and mana regen is mana regen). Seeing as my issue is that I function best when focusing on just one task (dpsing vs. pure healing), and the prior is more mana intensive in my experience, having the massive mana return from Mindbender is the best, and he also serves a great support role by helping take mobs down quicker when soloing. This, I have found, is the best on Timeless Isle. I should note that I've seen some disc Priests using Solace and Insanity in lfr, which makes me think that it is competitive, but I haven't spent much time with it as I go with Holy in most dungeon/raid situations.

For Holy, until 5.4, I only used Mindbender. Now that From Darkness Comes Light has changed so that it procs with ANY heal, I've switched to using this. Most of the time, I cast Circle of Healing, Prayer of Healing, and Prayer of Mending for AoE healing. Now, with this, I weave in Flash Heals as they proc, and I've noticed my healing increase. As both procs, Surge of Light and Serendipity, last twenty seconds, it's easy to get Serendipity to stack twice. As such, this talent promotes mana conservation by making your flash heals free, but also making your Prayer of Healings and Greater Heals cost 20-40% less. With Divine Insight, you get even more healing from Prayer of Mending whenever it procs. With the current (5.4) tier bonus that doubles healing of PoH and GH with 2 stack of serendipity, using free flash heals to get the procs has become very appetizing for my healing style. Even with Mindbender, I still used to have issues with mana, but with the shifts made to this talent (and serendipity), I've found myself going oom much less frequently. For holy (in my experience), I've found it odd when trying to work with Power Word: Solace, so I have next to no experience with that one.

Comment by Gethe

This talent procs Surge of Light for Disc/Holy and Surge of Darkness for Shadow

Comment by sylancer

can Surge of Light proc by Shadow Priest cast Flash Heal?

@gibproject:
Yes if priest not in shadowform.

Comment by eliot22

I find that this is a great talent for atonement healing. Spamming Smite leaves me with an almost constant supply of free, instant Flash Heals. So for those occasional spikes of damage, I don't have to shift from damage mode to healing mode; I just pop my two charges of Flash Heal.

Comment by sylancer

for Discipline, Holy Priest, Surge of Light give each Penance (Discipline only), Circle of Healing (Holy only), Prayer of Mending, Prayer of Healing, Flash Heal, Binding Heal, Heal, Greater Heal, Smite a 15% chance to trigger Surge of Light, make next Flash Heal within 20 sec:

free
instant

limit 2 charges.
Serendipity can be considered as the resources for Holy Priest; one can have 2 stacks of Serendipity max.
it generate by:

Flash Heal (+1)
Binding Heal (+1)

when Priest have stacks of Serendipity, these spells can be cast to consume all stacks of Serendipity (cast time & mana cost reduced by 20% for each stacks of Serendipity consumed):

for Shadow Priest, Surge of Light give each tick of Vampiric Touch a 20% chance (diminish on multiple targets) to trigger Surge of Darkness, make next Mind Spike with 10 sec:

not consume Shadow Word: Pain, Vampiric Touch, Devouring Plague (thus worth casting in DPS rotation)
damage increased by 50%
instant
free

limit 2 charges.
Surge of Darknessed (instant) Mind Spike can NOT trigger Glyph of Mind Spike (Glyph of Mind Spike).

Comment by tarthur1

Worth noting (although it isn't something you will likely encounter regularly): if you are casting Mind Spike and get this proc WHILE you are casting, when completed, the casted Mind Spike will not extinguish your DoT's, but it won't consume Surge of Darkness either, so you will still have an instant Mind Spike to cast (which will not extinguish your DoT's either). It still got the a damage increase as well if not mistaken.

Comment by Razordash

As a disc or holy Priest in the battle grounds, I make the most of Prayer of Mending, Circle of Healing, or Penance in order to stay on the move, avoid melee dps, and limit the chances of being interupted. As of now in the up and comming patch 5.4, those 3 spells will also help activate this talent. If these changes stay in place then From Darkness, comes Light could be an even more powerful tool to limit my casting times. I would still have to deal with crowd control abilities, but interupts will be less of a threat.

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