Originally Posted by
Egeldi
Healing as disc requires more forethought than holy. You have to get a sense for how people take damage in each instance and predict. Pre-shield people wherever possible, especially when group-wide AOE is about to hit. Keep PoM on CD.
Borrowed time is your best friend. Anytime you need to heal people up from a bad AOE, pop a shield on one (preferably the tank) before you do a prayer of healing, it'll cast a lot faster. Then pop a penance on the tank to bring him back up, shield whoevers lowest, and do another prayer of healing. Try hard to avoid casting prayer of healing w/o borrowed time up.
Biggest thing though is just being concious of how damage tends to hit the group and preempt it by putting shields up beforehand.
A good example in a raid environment: Festergut when hes about to do pungent blight, which is the big exahle after hes inhaled 3 times, I blanket shield the raid as best I can. One way to do this is to pop pain supression on the tank 10-15 seconds before pungent blight, so the other 2 healers are able to keep the tank up, then just go down the list shielding everyone. While this isn't nessecary if everyones done their job in getting 3 spores, it can smooth out that big chunk of AOE damage and make it a lot less scary.
TLDR: if you play as disc, you have to think ahead and anticipate damage, and smooth it out via shields. If you play reactively, go holy.