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Comment by 8403

This talent is probably one of the best additions they made for the priests in the 2.0 patch. This is the only actual instant heal spell in the game (aside from the talent from resto druids, which has a 3 minute cooldown, and the holy nova which is not at all mana efficient). While this only heals for about half the amount your flash heal is capable of, it heals the entire party (as long as they're in range), so for the amount of mana used, the healing can actually exceed what's possible from a flash heal, as far as the mana:healing ratio goes. Plus it's instant. Priests are now the only class with a truly instant heal that is both effective and mana efficient. I was starting to question Blizzard's statements that "no other class' healing rivals that of the priest's." This finally helps to support that statement. If you plan on being a solid healer, you'll definitely want this.

Comment by ayesha

There is no cooldown on this spell, except global cooldown.

Comment by 162283

with the (imho) brutal 6 second CD comming to CoH i think that they should increase the amount healed...by maybe 300-500....that would put crits in the range of 3-4k which would really extend the usefulness of the spell with the biger cd

Comment by 195792

The new 6 second cooldown is upsetting especially because sometimes I use it every 15 seconds and sometimes every second. This spell wasn't overpowered imo because simply spamming this for a whole fight will just destroy your mana but sometimes it needs to be pushed more then once in 6 seconds. Not looking forward to this patch, chain heal will be better again... (put a cooldown on that while you are at it blizz.)

Comment by 308436

It is impossible to spam CoH and be an effictive healer. You will run out of mana long before the tank runs out of aggro. So for all of you that think thats all us holy priests use you are sadly mistaken. I do admit that I use it way more than needed just because its a quick easy way to top off the whole party, but as a main heal it simply does not work. I agree that by adding a cooldown they should have increased the amount healed, that is how most of the spells with cooldowns work. The longer the cooldown the better the spell. It's sad that they decided to finally pay attention to us priests by nerfing one of our most versitile heals, but it in no way removes our ability to be the best.

Comment by 222832

As of 3.0.8 this spell is NO LONGER SPAMABLE!
6 sec cooldown added to spell. ;/

Comment by 156551

ICC25:
Spell Healing done Hits Crits Direct Heals Ticks Uptime Overheal
Renew 2213168 17.2 % - - - 2891 765.5 2213168 01:09:28 (46.2 %) 67.3 %
Circle of Healing 1942013 15.1 % 557 2287.6 1274178 206 3241.9 667835 763 2545.2 1942013 - - 28.9 %
Power Word: Shield 1926924 14.9 % 507 3800.6 1926924 - - - 46:19 (30.8 %) 0.0 %

Note that the values on power word shield and possibly renew are off due to going discipline and shield spamming on Deathbringer Saurfang.

http://worldoflogs.com/reports/gyinud4fe0zm2h8v/details/25/ and go to Healing by spell.

Or for Lady Deathwhisperer: http://worldoflogs.com/reports/gyinud4fe0zm2h8v/details/25/?s=3454&e=3822 (note that the interrupts where fairly bad in P2, so I did use Prayer of Healing a lot),

Comment by Redclouds

It should be noted that the Glyph of Circle of Healing should not be used in 5 man dungeons. Many don't realize that although they are not benefiting from the extra heal, the spell ALSO costs 20% more mana for the same effect.

Comment by sylancer

enter reduce mana cost of Holy Word: Sanctify by 15%.
enter cause Holy Word: Sanctify (modified by Mastery: Echo of Light):

healing increased by 25%
CD reduced by 2 sec

From Darkness, Comes Light give each Holy Word: Sanctify a 15% chance to trigger Surge of Light, make next Flash Heal within 20 sec:

free
instant

limit 2 charges.
cause Holy Word: Sanctify:

targets heal increased by 1 (from 5 to 6)
mana cost increased by 35%

Item - Priest T15 Healer 4P Bonus give each Holy Word: Sanctify a 40% chance to summon a Golden Apparition, which moves to a nearby ally and heals.
Item - Priest T14 Healer 4P Bonus reduce the CD of Holy Word: Sanctify by 4 sec.

Hearthstone: Circle of Healing

Comment by Loupland

This one, might even be my favorite spell in the entire game :P

I'm a lazy guy and i like to heal many people with 1 click <3

Comment by irishlord

Does anyone know why this CANT be casted if the tank is out of range. It healing in a circle around me and not on that member , correct?

Comment by minduim0

Just to clarify it to confused future readers: before Legion this same spell id was used for Circle of Healing. From Legion on, this now is Holy Word: Sanctify.

Comment by CrackaBob

I have noticed that you can cast Holy Word: Sanctify on the ground, and then subsequent casts only require you to double-click and it will automatically be cast in the same spot (provided you have not moved past it's 10 yd healing radius).

Can someone else check this and confirm?

Comment by AM1138

You can now cast targeted AoE spells like this right away where your cursor is, using @cursor in your macro.
For example:

#showtooltip
/cast Holy Word: Sanctify

Or to cast it at your character's feet:

#showtooltip
/cast Holy Word: Sanctify

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Holy Word: Sanctify

Holy Word: Sanctify

5% of base mana	40 yd range

Instant	1 min cooldown

Releases miraculous light at a target location, healing up to 6 allies within 10 yds for (245% of Spell power).

Cooldown reduced by 6 sec when you cast Prayer of Healing and by 2 sec when you cast Renew.

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Holy

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

5% of base mana

Range

40 yards (Long)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

1 minute

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Heal ({term('spmod_colon')}2.45)
Radius: 10 yards

Effect #2

Dummy
Value: 6
Server-side script

Effect #3

Dummy
Value: 6
Server-side script

Effect #4

Dummy
Value: 2
Server-side script

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