Hello all. Without going into terrible detail about my stats, I'd like to vent my frustration about my experiences switching to heroics on my new 85 disc priest. Healing in normals was a blast. I never went oom, was always watching my mana usage knowing how cata 5 mans treated healers.
Now that I'm in heroics, I just can't complete them. I am A/A and had a blast doing damage while healing, but now I can't even get to 2 stacks before I have to start using normal heals. My PW:S gets absorbed on one hit. I'm using penance on cooldown... I think my ilvl sits at 332 (mostly normal gear, with 2 piece t12 and perhaps the valor wand).
I have attempted 4 heroics, none successful. I've used flasks, food, I have. I don't have the most fantastic gems, but it's not like I'm gemming strength and agility. I read tons of guides. I always ask if we can CC mobs (but it never happens because apparently everyone is supposed to be super geared).
All of that background info aside, my question is this: are heroics still tuned like they were at the beginning of cata, with tanks taking a ton of spike damage, new healers going oom, constantly spamming my fast heals because the slow heals wouldn't make it in time?
Thanks for your responses. I'm at work so I can't do the armory linky. I had zero problems doing normals, finally got my ilvl up to do heroics, and even waited until I got two more upgrades before attempting them. Still having no luck.