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As a healer, a holy Priest plays a vital role in the game. Some players in the internet ask the question more often than not. So we think the basics we know will help you through your career in wow healing as holy priests.
As a holy Priest, there are two standard 'templates' for a holy build, the first is a slight hybrid, with 23/38/0, with 23 in discipline giving improved divine spirit and improved fortitude. The second is based on a fuller holy tree, with some points still in discipline for mana conservation; as usual this is along the lines of 1x/4x/0. With the discipline, meditation and inner focus mixed with a holy tree up to Circle of Healing.
Definitely, for any Priest, it is important for you to find out the angel practical the 5% + Spirit.
For the most part, taking Light-well is a must. While it can heal for around 4500 a click its break on damage removes a lot of this spells usefulness, especially with both the raid-wide damage and unpredictability of bosses in The Burning Crusade.
In the same way, Circle of healing is a great spell for getting out of a tight spot, it reaches to 1k-1.6k healing to all members of a party every second if used correctly. It is great for 5mans and raids alike. Some people however still prefer to have a better overall heal rather than this spell in their inventory.
More or less, holy concentration is a powerful talent, though choosing between this and reduced spell damage (AoE Spell damage being the number one priest killer) is often a close call.
Holy Reach is worthy. It really does depend on your style of play, if for instance you use AoE heals a lot this is invaluable, whereas if you mainly single target heal you may find it more profitable to move these talents somewhere else.
For Karazhan you can start at 1300 +Healing, 180 Mp5 or 400 Spirit, you should become a comfortable kara healer you should have around 1650 - 1850 +Healing 200 - 250 Mp5 or 500 - 600 Spirit.
When you reach the end of Kara you will be ready to move into higher instances, T5 Content will require you to beat the end of Tier 4 content by about another 15% and to heal comfortably you should have around 2000+Healing, 230-290 Mp5 or 600-700 spirit.
The easy answer is you should be stacking both, each of these is vital, though in patch 2.3 Spirit became much more powerful for Holy Priests.
With a good exhaling talent build the following formula should be used to figure out your Mp5 in and out of the five second rule. For Example
Definitely, Down-ranking is the key to mana conservation by reducing over-healing. Don't become obsessed with over-healing though, it is much more important to keep the healer up than shave a few% off your over-healing mark.
In part, Stopcasting is much more efficient than jumping out of a spell. Stopcasting can be done by pressing escape, or alternatively by setting up a /stopcasting macro to a button of your choice.
Before the Burning Crusade, the most healers would Blanche at any over healing over 20%. Nowadays, with different game mechanics over-healing should become at the 30% mark. Take your over-healing too low and you may find your raid dieing so regular spike damage that is dished out in end game instances.
As a holy Priest, there are two standard 'templates' for a holy build, the first is a slight hybrid, with 23/38/0, with 23 in discipline giving improved divine spirit and improved fortitude. The second is based on a fuller holy tree, with some points still in discipline for mana conservation; as usual this is along the lines of 1x/4x/0. With the discipline, meditation and inner focus mixed with a holy tree up to Circle of Healing.
Definitely, for any Priest, it is important for you to find out the angel practical the 5% + Spirit.
For the most part, taking Light-well is a must. While it can heal for around 4500 a click its break on damage removes a lot of this spells usefulness, especially with both the raid-wide damage and unpredictability of bosses in The Burning Crusade.
In the same way, Circle of healing is a great spell for getting out of a tight spot, it reaches to 1k-1.6k healing to all members of a party every second if used correctly. It is great for 5mans and raids alike. Some people however still prefer to have a better overall heal rather than this spell in their inventory.
More or less, holy concentration is a powerful talent, though choosing between this and reduced spell damage (AoE Spell damage being the number one priest killer) is often a close call.
Holy Reach is worthy. It really does depend on your style of play, if for instance you use AoE heals a lot this is invaluable, whereas if you mainly single target heal you may find it more profitable to move these talents somewhere else.
For Karazhan you can start at 1300 +Healing, 180 Mp5 or 400 Spirit, you should become a comfortable kara healer you should have around 1650 - 1850 +Healing 200 - 250 Mp5 or 500 - 600 Spirit.
When you reach the end of Kara you will be ready to move into higher instances, T5 Content will require you to beat the end of Tier 4 content by about another 15% and to heal comfortably you should have around 2000+Healing, 230-290 Mp5 or 600-700 spirit.
The easy answer is you should be stacking both, each of these is vital, though in patch 2.3 Spirit became much more powerful for Holy Priests.
With a good exhaling talent build the following formula should be used to figure out your Mp5 in and out of the five second rule. For Example
Definitely, Down-ranking is the key to mana conservation by reducing over-healing. Don't become obsessed with over-healing though, it is much more important to keep the healer up than shave a few% off your over-healing mark.
In part, Stopcasting is much more efficient than jumping out of a spell. Stopcasting can be done by pressing escape, or alternatively by setting up a /stopcasting macro to a button of your choice.
Before the Burning Crusade, the most healers would Blanche at any over healing over 20%. Nowadays, with different game mechanics over-healing should become at the 30% mark. Take your over-healing too low and you may find your raid dieing so regular spike damage that is dished out in end game instances.
