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Lightwell

Lightwell

3.7% of base mana	40 yd range

0.5 sec cast	3 min cooldown

Requires Priest
Requires level 36

Creates a Holy Lightwell. Friendly players can click the Lightwell to restore [(109.89% of Spell power) * 3 * 1.5] health over 6 sec. Lightwell lasts for 3 min or 15 charges.

Spell Details

Duration

3 minutes

School

Holy

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

3.7% of base mana

Range

40 yards (Long)

Cast time

500 milliseconds

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Summon (Lightwell)
Value: 1

Effect #2

Unknown Effect (Effect #0)
Value: 30

Effect #3

Unknown Effect (Effect #0)
Value: 15

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Comments

Comment by biggamer155

this seems to me like good spell to use when preparing for a boss fight your groups injured and insted of taking time to heal every one a few holy preists drop this any one who needs it clicks it and your ready to go

Comment by Firebert

Typo in the spell effect at the moment:
Attacks done to you equal to or greater than 30% of your total health will cancel the effect.
It's still beta, time to fix teh tooltips. :3

Comment by Vanca

The click range seems to be about 20y

Comment by m0283

If only bliz would change it so it works like the lightwell those priest in the argent tournament 5-man dungeon cast.
see this spell:
Fountain of Light

If it was changed to this all holy priest would want the skill not?..

Comment by Muffinsofdeath

This spell is way more powerful then you all think.

This spell can be used while

Tanking
Kiting
Blinded
Stunned
Disoriented
Sapped
Casting another heal or spell

You don't even need to un-click your current target.

Lets compare with a more favored heal over time, Such as Renew.

Lightwell costs 30% of base mana, and does 10charges or "casts".
So really its 3% of your base mana for ever charge.

(the following is at 290 spell power)
Each charge heals 10,000 over 6seconds.
As for renew its 6,124 over 12seconds and costing 18% more mana per cast (compared to each charge)

You can literally be in two places at once, having your light well positioned properly.

Heal ranged dps, or yourself while your to busy focusing on people who are dieing rather then injured.

The ticks also tick faster with your haste.

All you have to do is, Click.. and we will be well on our way to appreciating this spell

Comment by Draconin2000

I like using this as a wipe recovery tool. my party/raid can use this to heal while my mana goes totaly to rezing. we all get back into the action way faster using this.

I honestly have no clue why no one else has ever mentioned this tactic...

Comment by warcanon

Tip: Click the Lightwell
From blizzards random tips in loading screen

Comment by Nagoragama

Now that Lightwell use is extremely beneficial for holy priests to engender in their compatriots I have designed a macro to inform my fellows in its use.

#showtooltip Lightwell
/P Welcome to Lightwell. Please click Lightwell from up to 20 yards away for a HoT. Lightwell is usable while casting or stunned. Lightwell has limited charges, so do not click Lightwell unless healing is needed.
/cast Lightwell

I have an alternate macro for a raid format, simply replacing "/P" with "/RA."

I think its gotten a good response and I've even gotten people in randoms to use it regularly.

Comment by Exbob

I am a rogue and I absolutely will click a lightwell. In heroics it's as much about survival as it is about maxing the dps. I have learned to stand in the glowing circles on the ground. I have learned that in heavy AOE I will invest combo points on recuperate to save healer mana. I'd be happy to add "click the lightwell" to that list.

Since the changes to lightwell with Cataclysm, I can click a lightwell during my rotation without changing my target. I can work this into my rotation and not loose ANY dps. I think every Holy Priest should be training their guildmates on how to use this. For PUGs, well, good luck. The macro's mentioned above might help.

It's time for dps to think beyond their own little "top the dps meter" world. We routinely interupt casters and disarm mobs/bosses to cut down on tank damage. We need to starting thinking about ways to help the healers out as well.

Comment by norokelt

i found also this nice macro:
(source)
#showtooltip
/cast Lightwell
/target Lightwell
/run SetRaidTarget("target", 2)
/run local t=GetSpellCooldown("Lightwell") if t>0 then SendChatMessage("Yes, I did just cast Lightwell. Yes, I do expect you to use it!", "YELL") end

click it once to cast Lightwell, after the well is on the ground, click it again, It marks it with {circle} and warns everybody that there IS a lightwell. I'm sure people will be a little confused by it at first but given enough time, Lightwell will come to be expected. I guarantee it.

Comment by starkaas

My healer has told me that it helps a lot if the DPS use the Lightwell.

I use the side key on my mouse for targeting and use this macro;

/targetenemy
/target Lightwell

And have Interact With Target bound to Alt+side mouse button.

Works for me when I'm tanking too, and you only need to know that the Lightwell is near by to use it even, if you can't see it to click it.

Comment by Merylyan

Lightwell has something to say to you.

Comment by TelisTheHunter

Wish Blizzard would change this spell so that people outside your party/raid can not use it... annoying to be dueling someone and a bunch of jerks run up and take them all... >_<

Comment by archonoid

Put it before your Spirit of Redemption duration ends (ofc yell at your friends to click to light well) ..and avoid some wipes

and then become a LEGEND!

Comment by llangevi

There is also a great bonus for priests with HEARTSONG applied to their staff. After several tests, I found that nearly 50% of the time that I would click on the lightwell, it would cause the HEARTSONG enchant (+200 spirit) to proc for 15 seconds. And with the GLYPH OF LIGHTWELL adding 5 extra chages (for a total of 15) over a 180 second period, I have made it a practice to click on the lightwell when I don't already have a HEARTSONG already procced, even when I don't need the heal myself.

If I ever run into a group that will actually make a lot of use out of lightwell, I will amend this routine!

Comment by WoWsnob

As a sugestion to the whole "Healing totem vs Clicky thing" debate, Just let players MANUALY shoot the little charges accross the room. Will let priests keep their mana and let some thing else do the healing, much like it works now.
Scenario:
So, a mele DPS is too lazy to move out of the way of an attack. He is hit for roughly 50% of HP. You as the healer are inclined to heal the tank who is Dieng and save your mana, so you throw out your trusty lightwell. The mele OBVIOUSLY dosnt click on this for it wastes a GCD in his mind still, and "Takes too much time". Luckily, your super awsome Ranged DPS mage/warlock/what-have-you, uses the well to heal him, Via some new User interaction system to distinguish between Self heal and heal other (Possibly Heal target) And renews their lazy ass. The lazy #$%^ dose NOT die and the well is now not collecting dust.
Scenario 2:
You heal the MDPS with 2 Fheals and a GHeal. You are out of mana and can't Heal the tank who is being pummled because that stipid son-of-a-#$%^ is... well your OOM at a bad time. Indtodoucing the NEW lightwell. You shoot charges accros the room and patch the tank long enough to streach out your heals to last the pull, saving the party.
All in all, still way beter if people click on the damn thing themselves but still dosnt make it usless if they dont.

Comment by Inactivity

A very underwhelming spell and in my opinion, one that needs change.

The biggest issue is not so much the fact that DPS have to click it, but rather (from a DPS perspective) the limited 20yd range. Most fights, especially in DS, require that players be spread out rather loosely, and "spread-out" mechanics are where the lightwell is most helpful (since being stacked already allows for potent AoE healing).

Then it will only really serve a few people to have a lightwell that they can click from a measly 20yd away, and often times moving just to click a lightwell is not a feasible solution at all (you can risk messing up a spread mechanic, taking extra damage anyway, or even losing a lot of DPS - much more than "clicking" - in a tight-enrage fight).

Solution: Blizzard should buff the clickable range of the lightwell, say, to 40yd. This still will require intelligent clicking and the range is still small enough to require intelligent placement, but perhaps the lightwell will actually be clickable.

Comment by fklein4

Another Benefit for Lightwell: Weapon Enchantments May Proc

I noticed that when I click the Lightwell, I occassionally receive the Power Torrent buff. As a priest, my weapon is enchanted with Power Torrent. I wasn't aware that clicking a Lightwell could trigger this benefit from my weapon enchantment, but it does. Testing it out with 100 clicks, I received the buff 19 times (almost 1/5 of the time), which makes sense, since the proc rate for the enchantment is 20% according to: Power Torrent DND. I asked other players to test this out with their weapon enchantments (Landslide and Windwalk), and their buffs also proc'ed. Just another motivating factor to use the Lightwell.

Note: I am not suggesting that healers use up the Lightwell charges to gain Power Torrent 1/5 of the time. But for the rest of the group that need to click on the Lightwell for a heal, this is a nice bonus. I don't find it necessary for me as the healer to ever use up the charges from the Lightwell, as I have much better spells, as a Holy Priest, for self healing, like Desperate Prayer and Binding Heal.

Comment by whitaker12

this spell should be removed even when you ask people to click it they don't,as a priest healer i just quit even using it,clicking things are hard

Comment by scientician

This talent makes holy PvP not only viable but downright amazing. Allow me to elaborate.

Holy PvP works pretty well if you have good gear, but if you have ever tried it you will notice that it suffers from two annoying problems:

Large jumps downward in your HP pool compared to disc
Somewhat mana inefficient for long fights because of all of the healing to make up for those large downward jumps

Lightwell balances this out by being both very efficient and clickable when under the effects of crowd controls. When you have lots of resil, most of the damage that you take you take while silenced or under some effect where you cannot control your character, and then once you can move or cast again you make up for the loss. With Lightwell and Renew, and the occasional Holy Word: Serenity, you can heal yourself up for significantly less mana than Flash Heals, and you can keep your mana pool up high for as long as other healing classes (like a Holy Paladin).

I have tested Lightwell extensively in PvP. You -CAN- click the Lightwell while:

Okay
Feared
Stunned
Sapped
Incapacitated
Hexed
Polymorphed (Not that you would want to)
Horrified
Sleeping
Charmed
Silenced
Counter-spelled in any school, even holy

Note that I have not tried clicking lightwell while under MC. That tends to be a tricky one to pull off.

If you are new to the holy PvP game, Lightwell's PvP purpose is very different from it's PvE purpose. In PvE, raid members use it to heal themselves. In PvP, the casting priest uses their Lightwell almost exclusively. You can control the rate at which you receive those giant downward spikes in your HP by just trying to keep a lightwell renew up on yourself.

Lightwell is also exceptionally powerful when you are under the effects of Blessed Resil and/or Guardian Spirit. Here are some numbers with approximately 11k spellpower (PvP trinkets are all on):

7800 tick normally
~10000 tick under Blessed Resil
~12500 tick under Guardian Spirit
~15500 tick under both Blessed Resil and Guardian Spirit

Remember that lightwell ticks every 2 seconds, and is increased by haste! Lightwell also inherits the SP of the caster when the well is placed. This means that if you use trinkets before the well is cast, then the well will always heal with the trinket bonus even after your buff wears off. It also means that any trinket procs after you cast the well will not add to healing. In short, blow all those trinkets before casting Lightwell for maximum awesome.

There are four disadvantages to Lightwell in a PvP setting. However, I think that correcting any of them would lead to it being overpowered. The disadvantages are as follows:

Must be within 20 yards to be able to click the lightwell
The Lightwell Renew HoT goes away if you take 30% of your total HP as damage
Lightwell's renew can not crit
Unlike standard Renew, Lightwell renew is not refreshed by self-casting your Holy Word:Serenity spell (But seriously.. that would be way OP!)

If you have low levels of resil, the Lightwell will not appear to be a particularly effective survival mechanism. You will take 30% of your total HP in damage very quickly, so you will be lucky to get off just one tick of the lightwell renew. However, at high levels of resil (4500+) getting all three ticks from the buff is standard practice.

Lightwell is also a target to the enemy team, and has health and can be destroyed. However, in my experience most enemy players flat-out ignore the Lightwell, with the exception of some hardened arena veterans. (They understand what is up!) I am also unsure of the effects of the caster's resil on the Lightwell's survivability. I'm way too lazy to test this.

Lightwell is also a cooldown, but it is the best kind of cooldown. You can cast it ahead of time, and the well will sit there and wait for you to need it. The cooldown will cool down while the lightwell is up. Casting lightwell way ahead of when you will need it (if you are defending, for example) is a great tactic to keep it up 100% of the time when you need it.

I strongly suggest considering the Glyph of Lightwell if you are a holy priest in PvP and find the use of Lightwell beneficial. Whatever the case, really give this one a try. Your survivability goes through the roof, and you won't run out of mana anymore. More HoTs!

Comment by seahen

For those who use an add-on to announce the lightwell, I suggest the following message on casting:

"Lightwell up! (X charges, average heal Y over Z sec)"

It has several advantages over the messages I've seen:

It's shorter, so the talk balloon isn't cluttering the screen (and possibly hiding the lightwell itself).
Knowing how many charges it has, how large the HoT is, and how long it lasts is useful. It means I know there are enough charges to go around (especially useful when I'm on my warlock and want to Life Tap or Health Funnel), I know whether it's likely to overheal me, and I know when to click again without having to watch the HoT.
I've seen the occasional raider who didn't know what a lightwell did at all, or who thought it was an instant heal. This clears up the confusion.

Comment by fosley

As of 5.2, I found the following things true (full details in my comment on the Glyph of Lightwell page):

The formula for Lightwell at level 90 is LS = 17205 + 1.659*SP.
The formula for Lightwell at level 90 is LW = 19785.75 + 1.90785*SP = 1.15 * LS.
Lightspring *does* benefit from two extra charges if Glyph of Deep Wells is also selected, though to tooltip doesn't reflect it.
The tooltip for LS is correct, but LW is wrong (multiply the tooltip by 1.15 to get the real value).
The tooltip for the buff displayed (Lightwell Renew/Lightwell Renew) is wrong (shows 5735 on everything at level 90).
Mastery does *not* affect Lightwell or Lightspring

In case you missed the important math highlight there, Lightwell will always be 15% stronger than Lightspring if your raid clicks it, no matter what your current gear is. You're trading convenience for throughput. There's also the trade-off that Lightwell is more likely to waste charges on overhealing, but Lightspring can't be used to top a couple players off right before heavy damage.

Comment by sylancer

Hearthstone: Lightwell

Comment by taohinton

Farewell, Lightwell of old.

Your glory days will be fondly remembered by the faithful few, and your transformation into Lightspring heartily celebrated by the rest. Perhaps now, at long last, you shall know admiration and respect, though it comes at the price of your true form being buried in a glyph that only the maddest of priests would ever choose to install.

No more will we see the eager faces of the little ones gathered round the well, lit up with delight and anticipation as they come to drink deeply of its magic. No more will we hear the synchronised clicking of appreciative DPSers, /bowing to the priest before running back into the fray, aglow with healing. Never again will we hear the frustrated cries of priests to their ignorant charges: "CLICK ON THE £%$^ING LIGHTWELL!1!1!"

No more laughter. No more tears. No more macros.

Farewell, old friend.

Comment by Eninia

Lightwell Animation WoD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avqk34FAS7w

Comment by Azerothi

In some situations during instances, I tap the macro that tells everyone that the Lightwell is up.Unfortunately, All party members including tank run to the Lightwell and click it.

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