Comments on: Is Greater Heal Dead?

By: wow guilds

wow guilds — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:26:23 +0000

Ah, greater heal we barely knew you. Exellent thread, keep them coming.

By: watchwow.info » Spiritual Guidance: Is Greater Heal on Life Support?

watchwow.info » Spiritual Guidance: Is Greater Heal on Life Support? — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:59:22 +0000

[...] An excellent thread on Plus Heal has caught my attention and it’s a topic that’s also been picked up by Kestrel. [...]

By: helGn

helGn — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:17:30 +0000

I tend to use GH alot in nax25 when healing the tank, and special fights where alot of predictable spikedamage is a fact. And when i get a free spell from clearcast or inner focus i always tend to stopcast GH, simply because i like to think that everything else is waste
However when i’m allowed to play as disc priest (and that being more often after patch ) i never really uses great heal anymore, it has slightly less punch as disc then holy, i use most of the haste procs on penance wich in many ways acts as a new gh for me. i dont use PI on myself, i dont feel i ever need it really. if i need it i always feel that it would be to late to cast it now.

With the nerf to CoH i belive more holy priest will use GH more often, but however mana issues isn’t really issues if you grown up with stopcasting GH. On last HC patchwerk (as holy) with guild, the druid was innervating themselfs, the shaman got oom when patchwerk had 10% left (after getting a innervate) resulting in one of the OT’s dropping, however i had 45% mana left (with mostly disc orriented gear, so 1k int about 500spirit) and no problem whatsoever with holding my OT up with the help of hot’s from a druid, and thats without using shadowfiend.

Where i’m going with that? GH is a real powerhouse when a holypriest want to get the gas strech out for as long time as posible and still always have a big heal in the pipe so if the tank get’s a nasty hit you can just let it through and save the day
And saving the day is what its all about!

By: Kestrel

Kestrel — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:00:57 +0000

Hi Juzaba! Thanks for stopping by.

Comments like yours, with practical tips for healing, are precisely why I blogged this issue. (Well, also to maybe drive more people to PlusHeal!) That is a great healing combo for a Disc Priest. Since I have 2 or 3 in our raid group, that should be a great help to me when we discuss how to recover a tank.

By: Matt’s Thursday Morning Copout : World of Matticus

Matt’s Thursday Morning Copout : World of Matticus — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:16:17 +0000

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By: Juzaba

Juzaba — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:54:01 +0000

Heya! I like that this discussion is being turned into a blog post. Like many people, I find it odd that Gheal is being used so infrequently. I grew up on stopcasting Gheals and topping off with Renew, so the new healing took a while to get used to.

As a Disc priest, I limit the use of my Gheal to two situations. First, sometimes a DPSer will have taken a buttload of damage but be in no danger of taking any more (this happens most in 5-player content). I’ll often let them sit for a while until I’m happy with my other charges and then wind up a Gheal, knowing that I can make up the time spent on that DPSer with a Penance for someone else taking some heat.

Second, Gheal is part of the ultimate HPS combo. If my tank drops to some obscenely low level (like Maexxena, Patch, etc.), then my PW:S+PI>Penance>Gheal>PoM will output ~30K healing in less than 5 seconds. Clearly those situations don’t happen often, but taking a tank from dead to full that quickly produces a warm and fuzzy feeling.