Comments on: Holy Paladins as Raid Healers

By: Ketchup

Ketchup — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:12:30 +0000

@Chainon - I really hope you’re joking. Being top of the meters doesn’t mean anything if you’re overhealing like mad. That’s like being able to have top DPS because you’re smacking around the corpses (impossible, I know, but the idea is the same).

If your raid is staying alive and they’re not doing much overhealing, I’m gonna say that YOU are the one who is sucking. You might want to seriously reevaluate how you play your class.

Keep in mind, anyone healer can pad their numbers with uncessary overhealing. It’s not a show of skill by any means.

By: Asfand

Asfand — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:28:12 +0000

@ Chainon… so much fail in your post!

By: Chainon

Chainon — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:15:03 +0000

I disagree completly. I’m constantly at the top of the meters (I know that doesn’t mean too terribly much) and keep everyone alive by not doing most of this. Some of the points you mentioned are obvious… but you can be a MUCH more effective healer than this. Every holy paladin I come up against isn’t that good, and they’re following this. They are in the middle/bottom of the meters and yes, they have virtually no over healing. I don’t know about you, but I would rather overheal that suck

Sorry, I read these guides all the time and people comment how great they are, and I suppose it is… if you want to be mediocre.

And by the way, I do use divine plea

By: Packin

Packin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:08:49 +0000

My comment is about Divine Plea and MP5 gear. IMHO spamming Plea while continuously healing isn’t good. At 50% healing you basically are taking twice as long to heal and using twice as much mana, which is totally against why you’d use it in the first place. Learn the slow parts of fights and coordinate with the other healers and tanks to come up with the best time to use it.

As for mp5, I like BoL on the main tank and Fols on the raid. Most tanks that raided naxx are very well geared and have many ways to keep themself up so this works well and is much more fun and involved. Because this strat has you spamming mostly FoLs, mp5 isn’t a wasted stat at all. Plus, it sounds like blizz might nerf crit based mana regen, so gearing for it before it happens might help you out in the long run.

Good post and cool website.

By: Gazmys

Gazmys — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:14:48 +0000

Thankyou for updating your build, this is build is exactly what I use. Yesterday I succeeded in top healing Raid OS25. Recount score put me well above everyone else for Overall Heals by 400k. I pushed Beacon onto MT and helped OT heal with acouple raid heals here and there.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:21:30 +0000

Sorry guys, this article was for Patch 3.0. I added a link to my post on the Patch 3.1 specs including Divinity. You can also find it here:

http://www.holypaladin.net/index.php/patch-31-pve-holy-paladin-talents

By: Karleigh

Karleigh — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:54:03 +0000

Your 51/0/20 build is off.. what comes up is a lvl 53 build.

By: Gazmys

Gazmys — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:21:41 +0000

I have a question, but as a holy paladin, I was interested in reading into talent spec and ability to do raid healing.. looking at you talent build like to know why you bypassed Divinty in the prot section of your talents.. as this increases your healing and healing to yourself?

By: admin

admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:42:31 +0000

Thanks Dreaming! Great comment too!

By: Dreaming

Dreaming — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:36:23 +0000

I do agree with your point, healing purely with Holy Light is the actual trend, but is not the way it should be. The thing is, with HL glyphed, and as long as you’re not OOM, you’ll most of the time get better results with HL spam on splash damage fights.
Let met take one very simple splash damage fight: Archavon. Beacon on your tank, and HL spam as soon as splash damage happen will give you the best “results” on the healing meter.

But this is probably not a good habit to get. Using Holy Light when we should, regularly enough to keep the reduced casting time buff up, and between Sacred Shield, Holy Shock, Flash of Light should be your main tools.
It increases your awareness of the whole raid status, and unless you’re doing a very intense MT damage fight (like Sartharion with drakes) you should be able to raid & MT heal without going OOM.

On the stuffing part, I’m in great favor of int & crit over spell-power, but this is a choice that makes your first heroic 5-Man quite hard.

On another point, I’ve selected you for an “Honest Crap” award
Just because you’re doing a great job for all of us healadins.
You can go collect it there:
http://atouchofarcane.blogspot.com/2009/04/lets-take-that-scrap-honestly.html