Originally Posted by
Totaltotemic
People that don't play Disc only know what they see from other Disc players, and if there's anything I'm 100% confident of about Disc, it's that the vast majority of people playing the spec are actually doing it very, very wrong and for some reason refuse to even try playing the correct way.
Trying to get people to follow the simple concept of using their Flash Heal equivalent with a talented 30% increase to it for 5 mans in alpha, beta, and the past week has been like pulling teeth. People said they literally couldn't finish normal mode Legion dungeons and after a few hours of beating around the bush, they'd finally describe their playstyle as trying to heal primarily via Smite, and then they'd adamantly argue against doing the obvious: using the Flash Heal type spell when your tank is getting wrecked.
Raid healing has been similar, with every possible variant of spell combinations being argued to the death as what you're "supposed to do" except the obvious: use the one that puts Atonement on multiple people instead of just one person and use it a lot before you want to heal for a lot and then do damage. For some reason single target healing, refusing to actually spend mana when you want to do the same HPS as everyone that is spending mana, and outright denial that Disc even can do that level of raid healing all seem like more attractive ideas than using the multi-Atonement button when you want to heal multiple people.
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Imagine you're playing with a WoD Disc. All they ever use is Flash Heal, seemingly ignoring that Power Word: Shield is the single highest HPS spammable ability in the game. It goes terribly because of course it would. The next Disc priest you end up in a group with lets the tank die because he's Penancing the enemy mobs instead of the tank who is getting destroyed. You don't really know what's happening, just that the tank keeps dying and it's getting frustrating. You see yet another Disc Priest, and you already feel like the spec is probably terrible because the last 2 were so awful, and this one is so ridiculous that he busts out Saving Grace and thinks he should just spam that whenever anybody gets low. Finally on one last run you get another Disc Priest that starts spamming Holy Nova and everybody dies, so you leave the group because of course it was a waste of time, it was a Disc Priest, right?
You finally come across someone that's actually figured out that the secret to Disc is really just to ignore everything that isn't Archangel and PW:S, but that's stupid and wrong because <insert reason here> and Disc is still bad because if it was that simple, why did were the other four so bad?
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So yeah, everyone thinks Disc is bad and does like at least 20% less healing than everyone else because they have mostly only ever played with bad Disc Priests and don't even remember the time they got lucky.