Comments on: Healing experiences in Patch 3.2

By: admin

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:09:46 +0000

Divine Sacrifice can be really useful in some portions of some fights, but since its not meant to absorb more than 150% of your health and has a long cooldown, its not really worth the loss of crit and the other benefits in the Ret tree. You should be able to heal through the damage without it since it won’t always be up and isn’t always reliable.

Also, I have another post detailing the haste cap for Holy Paladins:
http://www.holypaladin.net/index.php/holy-paladin-haste-cap

By: Caerid

Caerid — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:47:13 +0000

Yes..but nobod answered about talents XD Now I have 51/5/15 which means to reach Conviction on the retri tree, but somebody told me that it’s better to put 17 points in the prot tree to get Divine Sacrifice and Divine Guardian. So what’s better?

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:25:52 +0000

What is haste soft cap for Holy pallies ?

By: khassad

khassad — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:51:43 +0000

I enjoyed the patch too.

Beacon change is very nice, but does not replace HL spam in 25-man hardmodes (actually HL spam is incentivated). I love this Beacon because it allows to easily bring more than one paladin healer. Because beacons stack on tank and all healing (effective+overheal) is transferred.

Mana issues: I was worried, but it’s quite easy to adapt.

Gear: INT is still main stat (also for gems), MP5 is now second stat.

By: Holywraith

Holywraith — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:08:37 +0000

I have to say I have enjoyed the patch so far it seems to have given us a bit more versatility, I reckon that the new range of the beacon is OP but who am I to complain

The game play IMO seems to go back to the BC days where our main heal was FOL and we had to maintain our MP5 levels for those long encounters. no longer can we get away with stacking Int only but we must get a nice balance of mp5 Crit SP and haste we are becoming alot more of a stat balanced class again.

I have found that my heals have taken a large jump in the meters since the patch.

By: I Dueced in me pants

I Dueced in me pants — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:33:18 +0000

I also just want to ad that you must consider yourself a beacon healer, beacon is now THE tool - its not the sacred shield, let the shammies and priests shield the tank. Sacred shield is pretty useless in the scheme of things. Look for it only to give you the extra crit value on FLash of Light.

Concentrate on making the beacon your priority and not speccing deeply into protection. Also be sure you are monitoring everyone’s health in the raid at all times, you are now part raid healer - even though you are hitting the same old buttons.

And always check again to see your heals are visually hitting your beacon target, sometimes its glitchy othertimes I cannot believe I am healing something so far away.

By: I Dueced in me pants

I Dueced in me pants — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:53:49 +0000

51/5/15 - its useful to pick up divinity
It seems like its time to think as crit as a nice bonus and not so much as everything depends upon it. These days I am getting up to 550 mana regen in 25 man and that is really pretty nice. So right now crit gives me some extra bonus HPS but otherwise i ignore it - rather save it till I have nothing left to improve. Mana per 5 is very nice actually - especially if you find lulls in fights to divine plea/greatness/not cast for a few seconds - like during the transformations of bosses. But a flash of light spec is not worth it unless you have the PVP librams - they give sucha nice bonus.

By: Savior

Savior — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:16:24 +0000

Y, i wanted to know about talents too. I am using 51/2/18, but if crit is not so good now, mb i should use 51/20 or smth?

By: Caerid

Caerid — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:10:22 +0000

What about talents? The talent build previously used (51/5/15) is still good?

By: I Dueced in me pants

I Dueced in me pants — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:22:03 +0000

I’ve been rocking the heal charts in everything so I will share what I am doing.

1) Glyph Seal of Light (+5%)
2) Glyph Beacon (saves mana - good comfort factor also, as you will be busy spamming FOL) and Glyph Flash of Light
3) Get haste down to 1.1 Cast for FOL with gear/talents - anything more then this is too expensive
4) Get a greatness deck and time your DP appropriately you wont run out of mana
5) If you are stacking enough haste to do this you are going to get a bunch of Mp5 for free which is nice
6) Beacon whomever takes the most damage, research your tanks avoidance etc - visually check your beacon heals are hitting
7) Be sneaky on your beacon usage - heal pets, heal anything low, heal stuff with bonus, heal yourself for the +5
once haste is around 510 stack crit and spellpower
9) Use the PVP FoL librams
10) I use holy shock with the guaranteed crit to save peoples life
11) Spam FOL, use other spells where necassary
12) Make sure your beacon is always on!