tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64753057865414980312012-02-16T01:21:56.558-05:00Healing fast enough, so you don't die.Dwarf Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07066167741060820768noreply@blogger.comBlogger421100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6475305786541498031.post-14302004850420527842011-06-03T09:28:00.000-04:002011-06-03T09:28:20.501-04:00

Recently I've been able to finally heal some heroics on my priest. His average item level is around 338 and is lacking in the mama regen department, but I managed to keep everyone alive pretty well. Overall, I feel very comfortable with healing as Holy. Compared to my Paladin, I feel like healing on the priest has a slower pace to it. I don't have to constantly cast spells on a normal pool

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After looking at the patch notes for 4.2 the changes to holy paladins for PVE and PVP healing. Starting with the nerfs Divine Light mana cost has been increased to 35% of base mana, up from 30%. Flash of Light mana cost has been increased to 31% of base mana, up from 27%. Holy Light mana cost has been increased to 12% of base mana, up from 10%. These obviously are aimed at reducing our

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My last post was all about my new pvp spec for my holy paladin. After running a dungeon with that spec, I changed it getting rid of Denounce, and later I ended up reverting back to my original healing spec. I tend to do this often, I try something new and then end up changing back to the original spec. Often times I find out that what I tried didn't work, or I decide that I just liked what I had

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Yesterday I decided to change my spec to suit a PVP playstyle. I chose to go with a hybrid between PVE talents and PVP talents because I still plan to heal dungeons and such. I am planning on organizing Here it is http://www.wowhead.com/talent#scfbdrduubohbZcb:acVkfz  and I think it will work pretty well for me. I think that the spec is pretty solid. it all came down to a choice between Tower

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I know that for my holy paladin that I go for Intellect> Spirit> Haste> Critical> Mastery. That set up seems to be the accepted best way to go, but I like to think about other options. Could Mastery end up being our best stat (if we're able to get a ton of it?). What does it do? Our Mastery is Illuminated Healing. At level 80 our direct healing spells will give a shield that absorbs damage. It

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As my guild has gotten closer to leveling to 25, my girlfriend and I have jumped back into running guild heroics. This has allowed me to heal heroics again, and I have really enjoyed it. So, I wanted to share my strategies for healing heroics, and healing in general.  Holy Powah....err PowerHoly Power is your friend. You want to generate Holy Power as much as you can, so you'll want to use Holy

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Jumping back into talking about some healing. Yesterday I was dpsing with a guildie who is new to healing as holy, and as we went through he reminded me that finding the right balance of spells to use is not easy by any means. This is not meant to limit your spell usage only to those I have mentioned. The key to effective healing is always through trial and error. Learn what your spells do and

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After recently changing this blogs focus, I've decided to just start a new blog. My new blog, Wasting Time Wowing, will be about my experiences playing the game, while this blog will return to its original focus. Once I jump back into healing on a more regular basis I'll post more about that here. I'm going to leave the older (and outdated) posts in case you're feeling nostalgic. Returning back

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I know that I said last time, that I would be posting when I had the hammer. Well I have all of the materials for it, but I didn't have anyone online to make the Sulfuron Hammer for me. So I'll have to wait another day or two, but the important thing is that I have all of the mats I need.  So onto the topic. Lately I have been very interested in PVPing. On a hunter, a rogue, a warrior, or on my

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Last Friday my guild ran Zul'Aman. Since it won't be around in its current form once patch 4.1 hits we decided to take the opportunity at getting some guildies their achievements before it went bye bye. We managed to get the Guild Achievement for it aswell, and over all the run went very well. Over the past few weeks we've been scheduling lower level raids for a couple of reasons. One, so that

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I've decided to shift the focus of this blog. Since I haven't been healing very much lately on my paladin or my priest, I dont' have anything related to healing to write about. Instead I'll be sharing my experiences playing the game. For any of you who regularly visit this, I thank you, and I hope you enjoy the shift in focus. To start my newly focused blog; I am 3 Blood of the Mountain away

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Now that my priest is level 83, I've started to think about what stats I want to prioritize for him. I know that critical rating is at the bottom, and that I reforge crit whenever it is on an item, but I am not sure about whether I should prioritize haste over mastery or vise versa. I know that haste is needed and it's great, but I'm starting to think that I should go for mastery almost

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I've finally started leveling my priest and in between questing and leveling his professions I've been able to do runs of Throne of the Tides and Blackrock Caverns. So far, these two dungeons are feeling like warm ups. There really isn't a challenge, and it feels like I have an answer for whatever damage heads my groups way. I have been trying to stick with Chakra: Serenity for most fights, and

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Until my guild starts raiding, I've been running every heroic under the sun. I've been pretty successful so far, and a lot of that success has to do with my gear. Obviously I'm going for plate gear with intellect on it, but what do I look for once I've found the intelligent plate? What to go for. First of all I want gear that has spirit on it. If I have a peice that doesn't have any spirit I

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Recently I've been healing more and more of the heroics that Cataclysm has to offer, and my experience in them is getting less painful each time. From my first heroic in Deadmines, to my most recent in Shadowfang Keep, and everything in between I haven't felt the same stress when healing heroics now. What is accounting for these pleasant heroic runs? Granted I have better gear now, the groups

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It has been a while since my last post, but, as I stare at this computer wasting time that could be spent doing homework, I think to myself that wasting a few more minutes couldn't hurt. So Cataclysm is out! As a breif overview, I am very happy with the game so far. My time spent healing has been limited, and I have yet to begin leveling my priest. With that said, though, I definitely think that

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After leveling my paladin to level 82 with my girlfriend's mage, we decided to queue for some random dungeons. We managed to get Vortex Pinnacle four times, in a row, but it definitely gave me an idea of what to expect for healing in cataclysm in this expansion. First off, just about every tank had 80 thousand health points or more, and everyone else has about 45k health points. So right away

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For a while now I have been using Recount as my damage/healing meter addon thingy. When I used to raid, I would use the healing meter to tell me how much healing I did and compared that to the other healers in our raid. When we began working on and finally killing the Lich King, I used it to also see how much overhealing I was doing compared to the other healers. And since then I have stuck with

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There has been a lot of discussion about Chakra, and not all of it has been positive. I personally thought that it was a cool idea, and I was really looking forward to seeing it be the reason that Holy is fun to play. By my use of past tense you can tell that I am disappointed in the current state of Chakra. In case you don't know, Chakra is a spell on a one minute cooldown, where after you

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With patch 4.0 new default raid frames were introduced. As someone who does not use any addons, except for Recount, Decursive, and Deadly Boss Mods. So, these new raid frames were a nice addition for someone like me. If you haven't noticed the new feature, or you don't care because you use Grid or Xperl or whatever, I find these new raid frames to be a pretty nice addition, and they have some

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Recently me and my girlfriend have been leveling some new toons while we wait for the expansion to hit. It has been a blast, and I am really enjoying the new class changes and the leveling experience overall. But after spending a couple of weeks leveling as a frost mage, I found myself wanting to hop on my pally and priest and just heal something. I don't exactly what it is, but it was like I

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I have seen some points that have been brought up about Surge of Light. Currently this talent gives you a 6% (if you spend two points in it) for your Smite and Heal casts to allow you to cast Flash Heal instantly, without mana cost, and without a chance to critical. Before 4.0.1 this talent gave you the ability to instantly cast a mana and crit free Flash Heal 50% of the time after you get a

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While I did not go, me and my girlfriend did order the live internet stream, and watched the panels and most of the events. This event is so cool to me because I always like the opportunity to meet people who play WoW, and BlizzCon brings so many members of the community come together like nothing else. I can't wait to get the chance to go, and I am very glad that I have been able to watch it

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I will start by saying that I have really enjoyed healing on my priest and paladin. Now here is why. The introduction of Heal and Holy Light as the medium efficient heal. This change has really changed how I have appraoched healing. I have a choice to make. If a tank is near half health do I use Heal because it's cheap, or do I use Greater Heal because they might die if I don't top them off

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With the addition of Heal (Holy Light if you wear plate) the healing game seems to have slowed down a bit. I still find myself trying to fit in as many heals as the global cooldown will allow, but what I mean is that healing doesn't feel as jumpy. At least, it doesn't seem like it. Currently damage goes out at the speed of Flash of Light, and at any moment a raid/party member could be on their

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With the new patch hitting the servers today a new way to customize gear comes with it. Reforging, is a new tool that will let players pick a stat (ie. haste, crit, etc) on their gear and turn 40% of that stat into a more preferred stat. On both of my healers, this looks very appealing. For my paladin I can turn some extra spirit into haste or crit, or I can make some of that extra crit into

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Since I started healing on my paladin through BC heroics, I used the approach of "big hit, use Holy Light, small hit, use Flash of Light." It worked pretty well, and during that time I began to get pretty good at keeping the green bars full. Then Wrath came, and with it brought the "OMG everyone is taking big hits!" approach. As I began raiding in Naxx, and OS 25 man, it seemed as though

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After a good conversation with my friend about our keybindings and where we put our spells, I have come to a conclusion. My system didn't really make that much sense. To start, the way that I set up my bars on my two main healers is as follows: I would put the three spells that I use most often at 5,6, and 7 with the rest going around those three. I wanted the main spells to be centrally

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After doing some more testing on the PTR I have come to a couple of conclusions regarding the paladin and priest healing changes. I found the paladin playstyle to be very fun. Holy Shock, Word of Glory, and Holy Light work really well together. The combination of chosing the right heal and managing holy power is much better than throwing the same heal at every situation. I also like how many

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With all of the class changes coming out with patch 4.0, I decided to test out the new talents before they went live. I was like a kid in a candy store. So many changes, it is like relearning how to play. I'll start with some of the broad changes, and get to the priest and pally stuff more. The new glyph interface is very nice. I am really looking forward to this change. Being able to get all

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A new Beta Build is availale at wowhead.com, and it has me excited. I've already decided that, when 4.0 hits the live realms, I'm going to spend my talent points with an emphasis on leveling. For my priest that meant picking up Evangelism and Archangel from the Disc tree, and for my paly that meant getting the talents that boosted Exocism and Holy Shocks damage. I was expecting this focus on

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Previously I posted about pvping as a holy priest. (you can find it here). It's been a couple of week and numerous battlegrounds later, and I think I've come to a decesion. It's really fun! I'll start by emphasizing that Discipline is still very good, but all in all I've found few draw backs while doing battlegrounds. Guardian Spirit is great. Lightwell, has been more useful than I thought.

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I posted earlier about my quest for the priest staff Benediction.. Well, after a couple of nights of two manning Molten Core and an awesome quest chain, I have the staff. *weeee* And shall I say, that Anathema looks awesome with the priest teir 10 set.

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Earlier I talked about my excitement for the upcoming paladin changes coming in cataclysm. Now it is the priests turn. Currently healing as a holy priest offers a variety of different playstyles. With the prevalence of periodic damage in Icecrown Citadel, and consitent raid wide damage two playstyles began to take shape for priests. Most priests would spec to make Renew more powerful, while

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I love it when I see a tank with less than 30k health. I love seeing a tank who is clearly not defense capped. And I love it when that tank is horrible at holding agro. "But CrusaderSev that's crazy, a bad tank couldn't bring any good." Wrong! A bad tank means that I get to heal. And I mean really heal! My priest is a Kingslayer and has everything from Icecrown (cept a stupid wand). My paladin

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Recently I posted about pvping as a Holy Priest. The spec that I linked includes Lightwell. Why Lightwell you ask? Well I didn't really know at the time, but now that I have done more battlegrounds I have an answer. When you are stunned, you can still click Lightwell. Meaning, it will heal you when you can't heal yourself. An example I'll site comes from Arathi Basin. Let's say that I am

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What will happen to the mounts?!

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Currently paladin healing is pretty easy. By that I mean that there are few desicions that need to be made when it comes to which heal to use. There is a camp that primarily use Holy Light, and they stack the intellect. There are others (myself at the moment) who primarily use Flash of Light, and they stack spell power. From what I've gathered from the Cataclysm posts, all healers will have more

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With a lack of desire to do any raiding, heroics, or leveling of toons, I have turned to battlegrounds. I have always enjoyed pvping, both at 80 on my pally and priest and at the lower levels on my rogue, and other pally. It adds a much needed change of pace, and it's always fun to turn the tides of a battle with needed heals and face melting powah. Most of my pvp has come on my priest lately.

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I was thinking about this on the way home today. After talking with some friends of mine, I realized that I had ended up spending a majority of time talking to them about WoW. They play too (not as much as I do) so it was a mutual thing, but we could've easily talked about work or school or anything else. Why WoW? World of Warcraft has become a hobby that I talk about, endulge in, and think

Dwarf Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07066167741060820768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6475305786541498031.post-52257497483527598622010-08-27T01:28:00.000-04:002010-08-27T01:35:53.796-04:00

Running a random on Cell, and there is a DK in frost presence (not tanking). He's hardly pressing any buttons, and just have a good ole time cruising through the instance. Our tank, who was over geared and pulling with vigor, was loosing his patience with the our DK. Not only because he was in frost presence, but also from the lack of activity and awareness of his class and how to play it. Our

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In an effort to catch up on the happenings in the WoW community while being unproductive at my job, I've discovered WoW blogs. Over the last couple of weeks I've been reading some very interesting articles about a variety of topics surrounding the the gaming community. From Cataclysm news, to raiding blues there is always something new and interesting being brought to the forefront. And so,

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