Hey guys,
So last night after completing a mythic+ Nelth Lair I finally got my first legendary from one of the chests (I would post links but MMO-Champ requires me to post a few times first...). And on top of that, I happened to win the RNG lotto because this is considered one of the best legendaries for both raids and mythic+.
Now, as we all know, the strongest of the lvl 75 talents is Surge of Light because it offers us a bit of mobility and mana efficiency. After some testing, I discovered that Binding Heal will actually give stacks for BOTH HW: Serenity and HW: Sanctuary which leads me to this question: is that enough to drop Surge of Light? In raid settings, I find myself casting both holy words, but moreso HW: Sanctuary on CD which doesn't give a lot of opportunity to accumulate the buff from the belt. Moreover, for group/multi-target healing, Prayer of Heaing is definitely more mana efficient (in terms of HP per mana) and provides better throughput. I'm not sure if using PoH less in order to fit in Binding Heal to stack the buff would be a net gain or not, but I do know for sure it would have an effect on mana (no more free Flash Heals -- SoL saves you 30k mana each time and its proc rate is frequent). Utilizing Binding Heal will definitely change playstyle when it comes to AoE healing in order to maximize the benefit from the belt.
Any thoughts? I'm not sure how many HPriests have been lucky enough to roll this piece yet, so any personal experience or even speculative ideas+theories from anyone will be greatly appreciated. There isn't much discussion about this yet that I could find on google, but I think this is the right place to start!
Thanks everyone.