Paladin
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?
I quit because they're nerfing Illumination
garreth — Thu, 06/18/2009 - 12:16
Hahaha, no not really :P But it got you to read this post didn't it?
Actually, I'm actually quite happy at the upcoming Illumination "nerf" because of the other healing mechanic changes involved. Check it out: http://www.worldofraids.com/news/679.html
A quick summary of 3.2 Paladin changes:
- Beacon now works on overhealing. If I overheal someone 100%, all that potential healing goes to my Beacon target. Yes! This is something Holy pallies have been asking about sine the release of Wrath. This allows me to heal a raid AND keep a tank up. Also, multiple Beacons may be allowed on a singl target, meaning multiple Paladins can heal a raid WHILE keeping the tank up.
- Flash of Light now HoTs a target who has our Sacred Shield. Woot! More, free healing and I get a legitimate HoT!
- Illumination nerf. We all knew this was coming ;) And, no, I'm not going to flip out about this. I think this provides an excellent opportunity for us to really have to put skill into who/when we heal. No more "LOLHOLYLIGHT" for 10 straight minutes.
- MP5 buff. The hallowed "mp5 buff" looks like its really just "put more mp5 on gear". MP5 is great in massive amounts, of course, but right now all the gear we're passing up becaues of MP5 has much too little of it. If that amount DOUBLED the pieces would be amazing. Here's to hoping they double it ;)
To summarize: I'm really excited. If they dropped Illumination down to only 40-50% I'd still be poop-my-pants excited. Holy Pallies: This is incredible opportunity for us to step up as healers, but requires a tremendous amount more work and decision making skills. Can our pallies handle that?
It's that time again. Tmw at 4 server. We start this again. 10 nax. Bring an alt. A friend that needs gearing. Because a guild doesn't love them. Sign up. Please don't make me have to ask in Gchat again. If you can't make it. I understand. But contacting me would be nice! I hope to see you there. I already have. OT. 2 healers. 2 dps. so please sign up.
Are you tired of seening you're alt in lvl 80 boe epics and blues. Don't want to run five mans anymore? Then come Rhyan's Raid. Alt's Sanctuary. We will be raiding nax 10 every week starting now until all the alts want a nax 25. LOL so come on now. sign up. be a good sport. Show us you're rofl green geared alts. It's ok! Serious hug!
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