90-100 Healing spec for 5 man instances

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TL;DR - Best healing spec for 5 man instances/heroics, Holy or Disc?

Hey there, I recently came back to WoW with not having alot of healing experience.
I want to start healing in WoD, but i'm wondering what healing spec works the best. I know this is based on the fight and such, but thats mostly 10-25 raids.

Now what I am wondering is, what spec is better for healing in the instances you encounter leveling your way up to 100 + the heroics you need to farm to gear up at lvl 100. These ofcourse are all 5 man.

I'm asking this because I will level up as Shadow, but I want to improve/learn the healing part in instances before I jump into raids at 100 without any experience.

[wrathblade]

Holy is more a output spec while disc is a absorb spec.

both have there charm and both will be enough to heal both 5mans and raids.
Ofcourse there will always be a better spec. but for leveling id stick to what spec you prefer and see how it goes.

For myself i really disliked disc, While loving holy with my uber aoe heals

[anon5123]

5man healing as Disc pretty much requires Clarity of Will, so I'd go Holy for 90-100.

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Holy will be simpler for you.

[Succath]

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[Noradin]

Holy is more fun and much more straight forward to use in dungeons with unpredictable (as in 'unfamiliar') group members.

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[Sosoulsu]

As far as speed goes, dungeons are not the best way to level for WoD.
If you don't mind speed, I would say Disc.
Disc is almost always better for dungeons.

[Dierdre]

I ran every normal and H dungeon as disc (because I don't know how to play holy) without ever using holy nova (because I'm so bad I even forgot to bind it). Considering you were scaled down to the minimum intended level for testing, I say it is very doable.

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As far as speed goes, dungeons are not the best way to level for WoD.

I didn't bother enough to time it, but I got that feeling too. Considering that most mythic gear is better than questing gear up until lvl 97-98, I felt there wasn't really a purpose for running dungeons while you're leveling other than for fun.

[anon5123]

Are there quests in the dungeons like Cata/MoP? It's definitely worth it to run the dungeon once to do the quests, which usually give about 3-5 quests' worth of exp and a piece blue gear, each.

[Dierdre]

Are there quests in the dungeons like Cata/MoP? It's definitely worth it to run the dungeon once to do the quests, which usually give about 3-5 quests' worth of exp and a piece blue gear, each.

Not like Cata/MoP, but if you build an Inn on your garrison, you'll get daily dungeon questgivers.

[Deleted]

I ran every normal and H dungeon as disc (because I don't know how to play holy) without ever using holy nova (because I'm so bad I even forgot to bind it). Considering you were scaled down to the minimum intended level for testing, I say it is very doable.

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I didn't bother enough to time it, but I got that feeling too. Considering that most mythic gear is better than questing gear up until lvl 97-98, I felt there wasn't really a purpose for running dungeons while you're leveling other than for fun.

Great advantage of dungeons is you can human-bot them... it takes a fraction of attention of questing, because they are repetetive, so it is possible to watch movies and use only periphetal vision.

[anon5123]

I'm not sure about lower levels, but my experience with dungeon healing on beta as Disc was that it was fucking impossible without using Clarity of Will. Heal+PWS can't even come close to the ST output of Holy's Heal+Serenity+Renew+Serendipity, but CoW certainly can.