Forum Settings
       
1 2 Next »
Reply To Thread

The Disco Priest ThreadFollow

#27 Mar 04 2011 at 7:20 PM Rating: Excellent
****
4,074 posts
Mozared wrote:
spamming Heal gave you the same healing done as spamming Smite


Speaking for myself, I'm not spamming anything. I'm using everything (except heal, ha ha). And when utilizing as many tools as a priest has, heal just doesn't stand up to the others. I find it to be terrible simply because I haven't got 2.5 seconds to spare for a small heal. If it's not instant or at least fast, then it has to be big. They could give me heal for like 12 mana and it still wouldn't change that.

Then again, I don't Smite heal either, so I know my opinion isn't the relevant one to your question. But I would venture to guess that even in this time of "bigger health pools, more time to think," pretty much every priest can find something better to spend almost three seconds on. Even Smite is doing some damage, for according to your math the same amount of healing, and with half a second less investment. Plus significantly more mana, true, and certainly mana is a big issue right now. But heal is just so unimpressive to me that I can't think even its high efficiency is worth it.
#28 Mar 04 2011 at 7:25 PM Rating: Good
In my experience, heal takes longer to cast than smite, meaning my HPS is more with smite than heal. Plus, I help get the mobs down faster by adding dps, which is a good thing. The only thing heal has is that I will probably never run out of mana using it.
#29 Mar 04 2011 at 7:35 PM Rating: Decent
****
4,684 posts
Well no, I don't 'spam' heal either. But whenever the group's filled up and it's just the tank taking steady but low damage? That's what Smite spam is for, and where it fulfills exactly the same function as Heal. If Heal isn't enough, that's when all other spells come in. If Heal isn't enough, Smite won't be either, though.

I've got a feeling we're talking past eachother in some way though, because unless the whole game changed in those weeks I've been gone, this is very basic knowledge that I know you have too.
#30 Mar 04 2011 at 7:54 PM Rating: Good
Once you are a bit overgeared for the content you are running with guildies, it's pretty normal for a priest to want to throw in a little dps for fun. We've always done that. Smite lets you do it and still heal at the same time. It's fun to try and not be the low dps, while you are still healing. Smite certainly isn't needed. It's there for fun if it suits your style. I enjoy using it where appropriate (along with holy fire). To just heal, heal, heal, oh wait, let me throw a heal.... perhaps effective, but boring.
#31 Mar 04 2011 at 8:43 PM Rating: Good
****
7,732 posts
Mozared wrote:
Well no, I don't 'spam' heal either. But whenever the group's filled up and it's just the tank taking steady but low damage? That's what Smite spam is for, and where it fulfills exactly the same function as Heal. If Heal isn't enough, that's when all other spells come in. If Heal isn't enough, Smite won't be either, though.

I've got a feeling we're talking past eachother in some way though, because unless the whole game changed in those weeks I've been gone, this is very basic knowledge that I know you have too.


Smite typically heals for more, is faster and scales better with raid buffs, as it can take advantage of spell damage/crit buffs placed on mobs.

Greater Heal with ToT is just as mana efficient as Heal(assuming no overhealing) and actually heals the target for a noticeable amount.

Heal is the spell I cast in a 5-man when I'm not paying attention and my macro falls through to Heal. In the limited raiding I have done I have never cast Heal as there is always a better spell to cast.
____________________________
Hellbanned

idiggory wrote:
Drinking at home. But I could probably stand to get laid.
#32 Mar 11 2011 at 6:28 AM Rating: Decent
***
1,073 posts
As Holy, Heal is what I cast when I have nothing better to do. There are rare but occasional times where no one's taking damage, but as a rule I'm always casting something, and if nothing else presents itself, that "something" is Heal. One exception does present itself... pillar healing on Nefarian. If I use anything other than a simple PoM, CoH, Heal rotation (with some Serenity for taste) I can drive myself OOM easily. Using Heal forces me to pace myself, which is critical to stretching my mana through the whole encounter.

Smite, as played by my Disc priest buddy, doesn't occupy quite the same niche. For him, Smite is bread-and-butter. Atonement is a smart heal, so virtually never wasted; it powers Archangel, which he uses on-cooldown for the mana returns and the healing boost; and any damage-boosting effect causes Atonement's mana efficiency to become a bit silly. In fact, I have a Disc off-spec for hard-mode Halfus Wyrmbreaker (100k Atonement heals? It's for real!). He can do the pillar-healing on Nefarian far more gracefully than I can thanks to Atonement and Archangel. (I just make it back on area-heals after Electrocutes).
#33 Mar 18 2011 at 11:27 PM Rating: Good
****
7,732 posts
Got to try heal Chim a bit tonight. Was fairly crazy. Using FH again was weird. When I try again tomorrow I'm going to use BH instead for easy mode self-healing.

Pretty cool fight, got a new hat as well earlier in the raid.
____________________________
Hellbanned

idiggory wrote:
Drinking at home. But I could probably stand to get laid.
1 2 Next »
Reply To Thread

Colors Smileys Quote OriginalQuote Checked Help

 

Recent Visitors: 143 All times are in CST
Anonymous Guests (143)