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karlusdavius
Yes, you get a lot if crit for talents as discipline, also trinket switching can increase crit when u go back to disc. Sp/haste is the way to go
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MegaVolt
whitch works fine for me if i am healing a plate wearing tank but druid tanks some times i don't get the heals off fast enough
Druids are plate tanks.
Dire Bear Form
will basically convert the leather armor rating into plate.
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PalominoMule
Late to the party, but I suppose I'll put in my two cents.
Tank healing as holy is tricky, particularly when you also have to take care of the rest of the group! Glyph changes I'd recommend in general for healing as holy:
1. Substitute one of your minor buff glyphs for
Glyph of Shadowfiend
. This is true for disco healing too - it provides an actual in-combat advantage. I'd swap out the shadow resist one, because the fortitude one at least has the benefit of making it cheaper to give a battle-rezzed ally a ghetto buff.
2. For your holy spec, you're really going to want
Glyph of Guardian Spirit
and
Glyph of Circle of Healing
. The latter doesn't help with tank healing, but CoH is one of the best things going about holy priests, and 6 targets instead of 5 is a 20% increase in the healing that spell does right there. The former is the one most pertinent to tank healing - GS is our "oh crap" button, and being able to use it again in about a minute if it ends up not being necessary is great. Not only because you can use it more often, but because you're less likely to hesitate to use it for fear of needing it later. To make room for these, I'd swap out the PoH glyph (PoH hits so hard that anything after that point is probably overhealing) and Renew glyph.
The actual healing in these two-man situations where I'm healing a tank:
1. Keep renew up on your tank! Particularly because you've got it fully specced. And, if you can spare a moment's attention, drop it on the other tank as well. In large part this depends on knowing when damage happens in the fight, what your tank can handle, and what the other healer will be doing.
2. As always, keep using Prayer of Mending whenever it's up. Should bounce off the tank regularly and help smooth out group healing.
3. PW: Shield is anemic and inefficient for holy, but there have been times where using it frequently on the tank has made the difference between success and failure when I've been tank healing. Its frequent use relies on your mana pool and regeneration.
4. Ride flash heal; keep serendipity stacks up for when you need a fast GH, particularly since you're not specced for Divine Fury.
5. Prayer of Healing shouldn't come up too often when you're dual-healing 10-mans. Typically it's too risky because of the time involved. Hopefully CoH, PoM and an occasional Renew or Flash Heal should serve most of the group-healing needs, but if you're not immediately worried about the tank a serendipitous PoH on your tank's group may be suitable.
6. Guardian Spirit whenever you're feeling antsy. It's just that awesome.
7. For when you're running OoM, I'd agree that Inner Focus + Divine Hymn is awesome; what's even *more* awesome is using your Shadowfiend right before that. Prepare a macro! Shadowfiend returns mana based on a percentage of your maximum mana - which will be quite high while Divine Hymn is in effect. When I finish that combo up, I typically find myself near full as far as mana goes. Obviously just clue your raid-mates in on what you're doing before tying yourself up.
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Error302
you can do all that of course. but it's worth noting that a reorganization of healing duties might prove more productive, depeding on what kind of healer you're paired with, it may make more sense for you to take primary responsibility for the 8 or 9 people in the raid who are not tanks, and leave the tanks mostly up to the other guy, particularly if it's a paladin. of course, you help with the tanks, and the other healer helps with the raid, but that's often the way it would go when i would 2 heal.
and of course, some fights require more creative divisions of labor *shrug*
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PalominoMule
you can do all that of course. but it's worth noting that a reorganization of healing duties might prove more productive, depeding on what kind of healer you're paired with, it may make more sense for you to take primary responsibility for the 8 or 9 people in the raid who are not tanks, and leave the tanks mostly up to the other guy, particularly if it's a paladin. of course, you help with the tanks, and the other healer helps with the raid, but that's often the way it would go when i would 2 heal.
and of course, some fights require more creative divisions of labor *shrug*
Obviously it's not *ideal* for a holy priest to be tank healing. Of the five healing types we're easily the worst suited to the job, and usually there are ways to work around it, like you said. Typically I have the other healer - presumably not also a holy priest - focus on the tanks while I back them up and raid heal. But then, life isn't always ideal, and neither are raids. Situations where I've had to take over tank healing recently:
1. When a tank healer dies unexpectedly and it doesn't have to be a wipe. If there's another healer who can take over and does so quickly, obviously that's best, but sometimes there's nobody else who can handle it.
2. Solo-healed a OS 3D zerg recently, making my tank healing a requirement. Yes, I managed; no, I didn't have a discipline spec to switch to; yes, the raid leader who clearly isn't too up on priests kept telling me to use pain suppression at point A even though I clearly kept using and mentioning holy talents (including Spirit of Redemption). I just interpreted it as "Guardian Spirit" and everything worked fine. >.>
3. I've been trying to even out tank healing duty in my guild's runs, to give some of the folks who typically get saddled with the duty a break, and to get the "I'll heal raid" regulars to stretch a bit. I've been taking my turn as well, as much out of fairness and to help the other healers out as to shame those who are being reluctant.
Post by
ande9249
not ideal for your usual holy priest to be MT healing, but consider
this
. If you are unforgiving about taking out the raid healing buffs from the holy tree, you get a monster of a GH machine with a renew that ticks harder, rewards you for recasting, and also GS that can be up for 1/6th of the time...havent tested it yet, but I would not be afraid to either.
P.S. if you instead tried to build a "raid healing" specialized holy priest, the best fit is
this
and even then it doesnt feel so impressive for some reason from a theoretical view
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