Priest healing is hacks. No joke, no lie, Circle of Healing, Renew, Prayer of Mending, all total hacks. I love it.<\/p>\n
I completely blew up the healing according to WWS in my first-ever guild raid on my priest on Proudmoore. No joke. #2 on the night, with 15% of the heals. #1, a very geared resto shammy with 24% of heals. #3 was the healing officer, a holy paladin (I swear, she’s pretty much the equivalent of me over in that guild) with 15% of the heals (I beat her by 23k healing). Rounding off the bottom three; a shammy healer, another Circle of Healing priest and a resto druid. I should note all of these people, barring the other CoH priest, have more +healing than I do, and the other priest is around my level.<\/p>\n
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Sn the Maulgar death, I was third, behind Great Resto Shammy and Healing Officer. Same on the Gruul death.<\/p>\n
Circle of Healing cannot possibly be so overpowered that I’m outhealing GOOD resto shammies or GOOD resto druids, so I’m wondering what’s up with them. Lack of experience, maybe? I mean, I’ve done Maulgar and Gruul so many times that I can recite the kill order without thinking, I can talk about the debuffs\/silences\/adds ’till the cows come home without batting an eyelash… So when the Healing Officer asked if I could watch the hunters on Kiggler, I was like, haha, sure. I wound up off-healing one of the warlock tanks, too, and then ran up to help heal the mage and the MT on Maulgar.<\/p>\n
And the funniest thing happened when I turned to start healing the tank on Maulgar.<\/p>\n
I actually ran out of mana. And my mana potions were on cooldown!<\/p>\n
Now, see, as a holy paladin, I run out of mana. I do. But like, a second later, I have enough to cast a reasonably good-sized flash of light. And if it crits, I can almost immediately cast another one. Plus I have Divine Favor, Divine Intervention… I have so many ways to get off another cast that I am almost never in the situation where I can do absolutely nothing. But I was, tonight, on my priest. Because, you know what? Renew, Circle of Healing and Flash Heal are frickin’ expensive compared to pally heals! And logically, I know that, but now I know it practically as well.<\/p>\n
So there I was, just about to pop my shadowfiend and send it over to chew on Maulgar, when I hear someone on Vent ask for an innervate for me.<\/p>\n
And I got one.<\/p>\n
And… it actually did something. My OOC mana regen is pretty sick in the face, considering I have all of 1650 healing with the healing food buff. I think the last time my pally got an innervate was when a druid of ours got bored during an Illhoof kill and he saw I was more than halfway through my mana. Which is as it should be, really. But it still surprised me to get an innervate tonight. :)<\/p>\n
So on Gruul, where I have always<\/em> healed the MT or the OT, I got the following assignment:<\/p>\n “heal around, heal everyone you can”<\/p>\n Coming from my perspective, healing the crap out of people by running around and casting renews, circles of healing, the occasional flash… it’s tremendously awesome. Traditionally, I stand there on my pally and don’t move for anything, not even Cave-Ins, unless we’re past Grow 4 or 5. Even then, I occasionally bubble. And I spam the living crap out of the tanks.<\/p>\n Tonight, I gloriously ran around Gruul’s room, tossing renews, throwing out circles, prayers of mending on the tank and off-tank. I’d keep renews up on both for the silences. And I didn’t blow anyone up at all, which I was a little wary of, since I can’t bubble out of the slow effect from the upcoming Shatter after a Ground Slam. But it was all good!<\/p>\n