Hi! I am having a lot of fun in Proving Grounds on PTR and using them to try out and challenge myself with all sorts of specs I've never (or rarely) played before. I'm working on Holy Priest right now (after finally getting through Mistweaver x.x).
I got through Gold as Disc pretty smoothly, it took a lot of tries (doing this cold-turkey after being away from WoW for ~a year) but all I really had to do was learn the pace of the fights and use Disc's ultra-cooldowns in the correct order. Disc is kind of a "CD metronome" style, I guess.
Holy, though, is stonewalling me. I can handle the damage fine, but no matter what I do I can't keep up my mana. I'm on vapors the whole time, and so much as one single mistake or overheal can spell the end of the trial. Which makes me sad, because I never bothered with Holy before, but this spec is actually really fun!! When I have mana.
Can any HPriests here correct what I'm doing wrong?
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For reference, this is my setup:
- Chakra: Serenity (single-target)
- Psyfiend, Mindbender, Desperate Prayer, Power Infusion, Cascade (swapping PI for Divine Insight gets me basically the same results)
- Glyphs: +2 charges Lightspring, 60% more on first PoM, +33% / -3s Renew
- Premade in 463 Heroic blues garbage (but the iLevel scales down to 463 anyway, and all my other Golds were also in the same junk)
And this is my healing checklist:
- Absolutely no use of PW:S, ever
- Absolutely no DPS spells, ever
- Absolutely no Flash Heal, ever
- Renew on tank, maintained with direct heals
- Renews spread on anyone who takes meaningful damage
- HW: Serenity on CD (when tank is damaged)
- PoM on CD on tank (if all charges have emptied)
- "Heal" on tank as long as possible, then GHeal when I have to bring him up
- Heal to keep people topped up when I know big damage is coming
- Prayer of Healing instead of Heal if 4-5 targets are all damaged
- Circle of Healing in place of PoH on CD
- Cascade in place of PoH / CoH on CD
- Mindbender on CD
- Hymn of Hope on CD when I both have a Mindbender out, and can find a break to get a full channel
- Lightwell on CD once heavy damage starts going out
- Void Shift + Desperate Prayer to ghetto LOH the tank
- Spirit Shell + PoH spam on CD (haha, just kidding. I wish. :p)
Again, this keeps everyone alive no problem, it's very effective. But my mana just plummets as the intense damage comes in (Pyroblasts on random party members, horrible burrowing rabbit things leaving "must heal past 90%" bleed debuff that sucks my mana dry to clean off, etc), and after a few intense waves I'm on total vapors desperately staring at the Mindbender CD.