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jrussell7289
So my main ever since I started back in BC was a warrior and pretty much have only tanked with him. Havn't even leveled another character until now. Decided I wanted to see the opposite side of tanking and make a priest. I have read the stickies and think I understand how to spec/gear but one thing that I am unsure of is what is the most mana efficient way to heal? I'm mostly wondering about single target healing as holy since right now I'm doing 5 man dungeons (level 55 right now). I do not enjoy questing so pretty much level only in instances which is the main reason I chose holy.
Currently I rarely use renew unless its a small mob or one that hits rarely weak, and I only use PW: S if the tank is gonna take a lot of burst damage at the beginning or as an emergancy button to save some time for flash heal.
Other than that It's typically:
Flash Heal x 3 (I am spec'd for SoL and Seren)
Use Seren Proc.
and pretty much just repeat over and over. Using AoE heals when neccesarry. Just curious if this is the "typical" way to heal single target as holy or if there is a more mana efficient way. Just thought I'd check before I got into bad habits early.
Thanks All
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Post by
ZoraLink
Well if you plan on single target healing (i.e. tank healing) once you hit 80, discipline is probably a better choice.
Just throwing that out there. Discipline is also more leveling friendly once you hit 60 or so as well.
Post by
jrussell7289
I knew disc was better for single target but just started out as holy before I had ever read much and stayed that way. I'll probably stay holy once I hit 80 as well. I just wasn't sure if Holy could be an efficient single target healing spec in 5mans or if there was a different rotation I needed to use.
If it really is extremely sub-par to disc I could just respec to that and go back to holy later.
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Aldones
Well if you plan on single target healing (i.e. tank healing) once you hit 80, discipline is probably a better choice.
Just throwing that out there. Discipline is also more leveling friendly once you hit 60 or so as well.
Disc is great at tank healing and good at raid healing; holy is great at raid healing and good at tank healing. Both specs can do both roles, one is just more efficient than the other and vice-versa.
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jrussell7289
alrighty I figure I'll go ahead and just get dualspec on this guy today. So looks like Shadow is an obvious choice for one spec. And from the way it sounds Disc would be better for healing in 5 mans as i level and the occasional BG when I'm bored?
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