Chronicles of Tuque - Holy/Prot Healing
saedo — Mon, 06/29/2009 - 13:46
So I kinda rarely play this alt now, but do manage to find some time to brush the dust off it.
I got to do a pug Naxx25. It was fairly interesting experience. Sure it was lolNaxx, and failpug, and I probably only suck just a bit less than the others. But I can add a notch under my belt, solo healing Gothik live side. Well, 3 people died to that (i blame fail dps not waiting on tanks), and I wasn't soloing on purpose, afk healers and fail to give live side more.
Anyways, here's the data:
- Armory: http://www.armory-light.com/us/Gorgonnash/Tuque/
- Spec: http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#sxA0gM0sVu0tgdxGzubZc:bdizcV
- Day 1 Parses: http://wowwebstats.com/zwjokevpiaggc
- Day 2 Parses: http://wowwebstats.com/46ztrvitckpjg
Check em and gimme thoughts if you want.
Style:
The whole point of this spec is to forgo Holy Light (for the most part), and concentrate on Holy Shock, Flash of Light, and Sacred Shield. Well, and keep Beacon up on someone.
With Sacred Shield, my shitty gear absorbs about 2.2K damage every 6 seconds. Which also procs a 12 second duration for increasing Flash of Light crit by 50%.
So the whole time you'd be trying to spam FoL on your main heal target. And either use Holy Shock to help raid heal or increase throughput on your target. With good crit, you can get like 18K heals in 2 GCDs, about as good/fast as Holy Light. And if you get into a good crit rhythm, with some haste, and maybe heroism, you can wind up a bit GCD locked. Clique is extremely useful I think due to all the instants you can wind up doing.
Judgements are almost useless. Well, unless you want to get it up for the raid if no Holy/Ret pally's already doing it. FoL being an already fast cast, the extra haste doesn't do much. A 1.2 sec cast turning into a 1.1 sec cast isn't especially helpful most of the time. And the fact that I'd be trying to crit Holy Shock a lot to turn that FoL instant.
Mana was not an issue. Unless forced to used Holy Light a fair amount. Otherwise never really dip below 70% mana too often.
There are certain fights I would choose to use Holy Light more exclusively though.
- Loatheb, can only heal every 20 sec or so. Queue up a big heal and let it splash around.
- Gluth, after decimate, can quickly get chunks of people back up faster
- Razuvious, well it's more to try to top off the low health mobs. And shield doesn't work on them.
- Sapphiron, during ice blocks, there are clumps of people to splash it on.
Glyphs:
The 3 glyphs I went with were Seal of Light, Holy Light, Flash of Light, and my reasoning:
- Seal of Light: With intensive FoL spams, mana is no issue. But instead, throughput is. These heals are fast but smaller, so best to try to get em to hit harder.
- Holy Light: For that inevitable Holy Light you must cast when the raid is taking some big damage, and you can exploit the clump of melee
- Flash of Light: Wanted it to crit as much as possible, a non-crit is weak. Yea with Sacred Shield it should've crit 50% more, but I don't think that's a large enough window to ramp up crit too much. Take my Patchwerk shot: http://wowwebstats.com/zwjokevpiaggc?s=449432-489425&a=x400000001da325d It was a fight where I got to MT spam, and only managed 47% crit rate on FoL.
Other possible glyphs and why I didn't choose em:
- Beacon of Light: Increasing duration would allow me to cast it less, but right now it's sync'd 60 seconds with my shield so it's easier to remember to put them both up. Personal preference really.
- Divinity: I suppose this would be like an extra pot in a fight. But I can't use it much in a fight, and not that I needed mana.
- Holy Shock: This is only really useful if you use it on the CD every CD. Which I just don't/can't.
- Seal of Wisdom: Reasons are more with Seal of Light, just don't need mana
Gearing:
Well here's my initial brief thoughts on the stats to look for.
- Intellect: This is likely still top stat, though diminished in value. Mana pool and regen is not as huge anymore. But still like it for the crit and spell power.
- Crit Rating: This goes up in value to get crit chains going. The better your crit, the harder FoL hits to make up for lack of HoL, and the more instant FoL you can cast through HS crits for more throughput
- Spell Power: This goes up in value, it will make your shield absorb more, and give you more power to your weak fast heals.
- Haste: This goes down in value, dealing with near GCD locking heals haste won't help much.
- MP5: Proabably goes down as well. Your regen will mostly come from Illumination crits, and with the cheap FoL casts, mana usually never an issue.
Anyways, that's all I got for now. Thoughts?


A bit more
saedo — Sat, 07/04/2009 - 00:54A bit more data:
Well it's probably just cause of this raid, and Pudo not taking as much damage... But I wound up just spamming flash, and keeping Holy Shock on reserve to snipe the raid. Makes me wonder if Holy Shock should be used more recklessly.
Though this build was thought of as MT flash spamming, this machine gun approach to heals seems good for raid healing too. From some IRC chats, I believe the shield only buffs FoL inbetween the time it gets up after taking initial damage, and before it's done it's job and absorbed all it's can. That can wind up being a fairly short window, so MT spamming probably isn't the strongest point.
This is actually my healing
Olorien — Tue, 06/30/2009 - 07:04This is actually my healing spec also Saedo, and some of you r assumptions with better gear are true. My WWS stats are going to look horrible due to DCs last night but I healed Ignis, RS, and IC and never had to use a HL. Check out the GRD parses from Monday 6/29, for more data.
I don't think they're up
cromi — Tue, 06/30/2009 - 10:15I don't think they're up yet. I just looked at the page and nothing.
If it's this you're talking
saedo — Tue, 06/30/2009 - 10:21If it's this you're talking about: http://wowwebstats.com/lzatnz1biwcaa it's right on top of the page.
As your gear gets better,
Prime8 — Mon, 06/29/2009 - 17:29As your gear gets better, you're going to use HL more than FoL, particularly if you pick up 4pt7 set bonus. You may want to switch to Glyph of Seal of Wisdom. When you switch to HL, make sure you keep your judgements of the pure up all the time. I personally don't take Imp Lay on Hands, instead I take Aura Mastery and 1 point in purifying power. I spec holy/ret rather than holy/prot though.
This is the move from
saedo — Mon, 06/29/2009 - 17:36This is the move from Holy/Ret to Holy/Prot. How the style changes and what it can do, what to think about. I didn't just hit 80 and started out Prot. I was down the ret tree, was using Seal of Wisdom, was using Holy Light, was using Judgements, was using Aura Mastery, etc, etc.
So, this is more talk of the experimentation of a different spec. And a point is, as my gear gets better, how is this all going to work out. Sure the T7 bonus is good for HL. But thinking further this could very well synergize better with T8 bonuses, which Pallies think is terrrible because it doesn't support HL spamming at all.
Although you are mainly
Dragon — Mon, 06/29/2009 - 15:22Although you are mainly casting 2 holy lights in the 3 second window on laotheb, you are also getting on average 3 absorbs inbetween heals.
Mana is not an issue on this fight, or never was for me when i healed it. From a tanking perspective though I prefer the steady consistent 20% more absorb on this fight rather than an RNG (although high probability RNG) crit heal.
Well yea the shield will be
saedo — Mon, 06/29/2009 - 15:39Well yea the shield will be up constantly regardless of what I do. What I meant by using Holy Light exclusively was that I'd actually use it, prob more than FoL, but will still do the whole shielding thing. Every other fight I think I got by with just FoL/HS.
More specifically for Loatheb, it's a pre-cast Holy Light to land as aura goes off. Holy Shock someone, then FoL someone else.