Originally Posted by
longxia
Actually don't listen to this person. It is the spamming of Radiance on full-health targets that is actually meter-padding. There is never any repeated AOE damage spikes (Ursoc doesnt charge twice in 3 seconds, Spider doesnt jump up, fall and immediately repeat etc), so there is never any reason for Disc priests to "burst" their AOE atonement. Oh wait there is, they have to land their atonement healing before all the Essence Fonts, Wild Growths and Circles of Healing top everyone off. Sniping other healers is the only reason disc has to hurry on their AOE, gotta pad those meters hard to make up for the other 80% of the fight standing around doing nothing.
Some Disc prefer to just tank-heal, and spot-heal seriously hurt DPS, which saves lives and actually contributes something useful to the group. Of course everyone has their own style and this argument will definitely last the whole expansion - but the objective truth is that if an AOE-burst Disc dies early then all that happens is that the other healers get 1-2 more ticks of their HOTS, or 10-20% less overhealing overall, and no-one notices any difference.
If the tank-healing, spot-healing Disc dies then tanks take spikier damage, hurt people tend to stay hurt for longer, and the raid is more likely to wipe.
So choose how you want to play, and how you want to contribute, think about what I said and make your own judgement because even 100,000 monkeys repeating the same stupidity doesn't turn it into genius.