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Comment by 99096

whats the % from +healing this spell gets? without empowered healing talents.

Comment by karlusdavius

Again, not correct.

Flash heal vs Greater heal never comes down to raw numbers. it comes down to opportunity. You state that Discipline Priests should be using PW:S followed by greater Heal, without taking Penance, their 51 point talent, into consideration. Your views are based on the perfect scenario. This will never happen.

You keep mixing Discipline with Holy. Both are completely different in every way. Holy is a raid healer and will very rarely use Greater heal unless high, predictable incoming damage is present (patchwerk). You look at any guilds 25 man Parses from WWS and you will find that the main spells used are CoH, Flash Heal and PoM. Greater heal will be lowest.

Discipline is a Single target Healer. We should not raid heal as we do not have the skills or talents to do so. Main Tank healing is what we do. We Flash heal long enough to use Penance. Greater heal will not be used. even on patchwerk.

The debate of Flash Heal vs Greater Heal based on numbers
Greater Heal Wins

The debate of Flash Heal vs Greater Heal based on

Usefulness
Quickness of casting
HPS depending on deficit
Amount of procs turning (Flash heal into Instant casts).

Flash Heal Wins.

Comment by 226027

Flash Heal is the spell that a Discipline Priests should use between Penance.

This is because:

Divine Aegis and Rapture does not benefit from overhealing done.

The only benefit Greater Heal has to Discipline Priests is that the larger heal makes a larger shield. And as point 2 says, over healing does not make much of a benefit.

Comment by 479179

Cataclysm:

This is a Priests' fast, expensive heal. It has a short cast time, heals for a rather large amount, but the mana cost is very high. You should only use this if your target will die before you can land a Heal or Greater Heal spell.

Comment by Pythagoreant

This is priests' quick, expensive heal.

In Cataclysm (as of 4.0.3a), all healers have the following types of heals:

Quick, expensive heal: 1.5 second cast, very high mana cost, high heal value.
Inexpensive heal: 3 second cast (usually talented to 2.5), very low mana cost, low heal value.
Slow, big heal: 3 second cast (usually talented to 2.5), high mana cost, very high heal value.

The mana costs differ very slightly between classes. Two of them have the quick heal cost more than the big heal.

Priest
Quick - Flash Heal
Cheap - Holy Word: Serenity
Big - Heal

Shaman
Quick - Healing Surge
Cheap -
Big - Healing Wave

Druid
Quick - Regrowth
Cheap - Nourish
Big -

Paladin
Quick - Flash of Light
Cheap -
Big - Holy Light

Comment by 319936

Priest PvP Healing 2P Bonus Holy Spark cause Prayer of Mending trigger Holy Spark on the initial target, increase healing received from the Priest's next Flash Heal within 10 sec by 50%.
Item - Priest T14 Healer 2P Bonus reduce mana cost of Flash Heal by 20%.

Flash Heal's healing increased by 25% for Holy, Discipline Priest ().

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

free
instant

limit 2 charges.

Holy Words can be considered as the resources for Holy Priest; one can have 2 stacks of Holy Words max.
it generate by (they all modified by Mastery: Echo of Light):

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

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

enter cause Flash Heal:

healing increased by 25%
refresh the duration of the Priest's Renew on the target.

for Discipline Priest, each Flash Heal (modified by Mastery: Shield Discipline):

increase healing the target received from the Priest by 10%, stack up to 3 times ().
reduce the duration of the Weakened Soul debuff on the target by 2 sec ().

cause next Flash Heal:

mana cost reduced by 25%
guaranteed to be critical

enter Spirit Shell cause Flash Heal no longer heal but instead create absorption shields that last 15 sec.

Item - Priest PvP Set Discipline/Holy 4P Bonus cause during Spirit Shell, reduce mana costs of Flash Heal by 50%.

Shadow Priest can cast Flash Heal but can NOT cast without cancel Shadowform.

Comment by Reecow

Flash Heal is a quick, quite expensive heal with a moderate healing output. In this post, you'll be able to see and compare a few priest spells' mana efficiency and time efficiency. In order to make these post relevant to priests of all Levels, Item Levels and with different amounts of Spell Power, Haste & Base Mana, I've decided to exclude Spell Power, Base Mana & Haste of my calculations. By doing this, you can't view any correct amounts in neither Healing Ouput, Mana Cost, Cast Time, Healing Per Mana nor Healing Per Second but you can however compare the different values between different spells.

Healing Output: 332.657% of Spell Power = 3.32657 *
Mana Cost: 4.1% of Base Mana = 0.041 *
Cast Time: 100-% of Base Cast Time = (1-) * 1.5 sec

Mana Efficiency = Healing Output / Mana Cost = 3.32657/0.041 ≈ 81.136 HPM (Healing per Mana)
Time Efficiency = Healing Output / Cast Time = 3.32657/1.5 ≈ 2.217 HPS (Healing per Second)

Below you can find the comparable values of some priest spells. Assumptions: Penance is completely channeled and Prayer of Healing heals 5 targets.

Categories	Heal	Flash Heal	Penance	Prayer of Healing
Healing Output	3.3264	3.32657	3.024	11.0832
Mana Cost	0.02	0.041	0.012	0.071
Base Cast Time	2.5	1.5	2.0 (Channeled)	2.5
HPM	166.320	81.136	252	156.101
HPS	1.331	2.217	1.512	4.433

EDIT : Updated posts for latest Beta Build and made post relevant to all Discipline Priests by excluding certain variables.

Comment by dumaike4hire

It's worth noting, that for Discipline priests this spell is replaced by Shadowmend at level 28. I don't see that information anywhere in the wowhead interface and spent some time confused about where my Flash Heal was supposed to be.

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Flash Heal

Flash Heal

3.6% of base mana	40 yd range

1.5 sec cast

A fast spell that heals an ally for (203% of Spell power).

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Holy

Mechanic

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Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

3.6% of base mana

Range

40 yards (Long)

Cast time

1.5 seconds

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect

Heal (SP mod: 2.03)
PVP Multiplier: 1.3

Flags

Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Does not require shapeshift
Aura Points On Client
Heal Prediction
Allow Class Ability Procs

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