Originally Posted by
nikkita
Discipline priest can heal both MT and raid, depending on the encounter ofc.
You can easly have a 100% uptime of sheild, infact cast only sheilds - it would easly get you threw all the easy modes in ulduar. It will help other healers (especially if you have high spellpower since your shield will then absord more), it will give them more time to lannd their heal. Will it fit to hard modes? no it won't, will you top the meter's of worloflogs, probably. If you had a guild that all had extremely good healers would you be considered a good healer? no you won't.
I can compare shield spaming on raid to a paladin not using beacon of light and using only FLash Of light, a Druid casting only rejub and not using Wildgrowth, nourish, regrowth, swiftment, lifebloom etc, To a resto shaman not casting Earth shield, a holy priest casting Flash heal x 3 and poh rotationaly. When it comes to most of the hard modes a combination of spells is what's required, every or most GcD are important.
On freya with 3 we use a discipline for raid healing, he has roughly a 38% useage of his sheild - even less then the fusion priest. She penances poh's and proms alot more then him. Also has afew renew casted. She really does use the sheild on someone that's in danger (ground tremor + chain lightening/lightening bolt, Nature fury, Roots, healers and low hp targets that explosive lashers tend to gimp fast). I am not so sure she would've earned that spot if all she did was spam around sheilds. She uses indead alot and mainly sheilds but also finds times where the GcD should go for a prom or a penance (even a renew - though had 15 casted, the renew isn't that strong as discipline), a PS on the tank, a poh on the correct time. This ofc comes with experiance.
Yet if you go freya with no adds at all, there's no ground tremor (i actually never did it without atleast 1 elder alive), therefore spaming the whole raid with sheild might be not so amazing. The difference between hard modes and normal modes are the spells that you use, when i see a druid casting only rejub i feel he's replaceable, just like a discipline spaming only sheilds. This ofc refers only to hard modes. On normal modes i tend to swap in some holy fire's and smites to make it interesting. In that case probably what ever you do will be good enough. Though to my veiw, I never want to be good enough.