If I’m in mid cast and I need to start healing NOW, break the cast and keep playing, and then try again at the next earliest convenience, whereas with the 9 second self-mortal strike debuff, I’d have to cancel the buff and then I’ve lost that mana, never to get it for the entire fight. The cooldown doesn’t get triggered until a successful cast.

The cast time is reduced by haste, as well, so you can actually get a Divine Plea off under Divine Favor and/or Heroism/Timewarp/Bloodlust in a really short period of time. You’re talking a 3 second cast time to get one off if you need to during a high haste period, which is a hell of a lot better than trying to power through a 9 second healing debuff at the most critical period of the fight if you really need to get that mana back.

So throw an Eternal Flame on the tank and a Hand of Sacrifice (you have two of those, right Clemency?), and then power through those 3 – 4 seconds and keep on trucking. There’s plenty of times where you can afford 3 – 4 seconds of no casting if you can afford 9 seconds of half healing.

About the only thing I can think of where I’d actually opt to not use the glyph is if I know I’m I’ll be SO strapped for mana that I’ll need to use this expansions Potion of Concentration. Then pop Divine Plea and the Potion, and watch the mana flow. In which case, yeah, I agree, the glyph isn’t so hot there. But that of course requires 10 seconds of downtime that you don’t need to move, so that’s a bit harder to swing.

Speaking of target-s-, the only AoE damage Holy can do is Light’s Hammer or Holy Prism. This makes me sad. As nice as Double Jeopardy sounds, Judgment hits like a wet noodle as Holy so it’s only useful when you need to cast on the run. When I’m doing damage and moving I’ll just settle for Crusader Strike and the extra charges of Holy Power anyway.

Speaking of Holy DPS (because, really, who doesn’t love them some Holy DPS?!) I found Battle Healer to perform really poorly just because I do such trivial melee damage. Some EJ posters have also noted a bug with EF ticks resetting the melee swing timer, leading to NO white damage going out once you get more than a couple EF’s ticking in the group – which negates the already minuscule utility of Battle Healer.

All that said, it is really satisfying to help burst down an arena opponent.

I don’t like the Divine Plea glyph because I like to time Divine Plea with movement. If I’m running, I can’t really heal anyways, so having reduced healing does not really matter.

I haven’t been switching for heroics but I think I’ll start using Harsh Words since I get SO bored in heroics. Would come in handy for Scenarios too since I don’t really like going ret for scenarios.

I haven’t tried Divine Plea since early MoP, but I’m hesitant to give it another test drive. I’d rather have reduced healing than having to time my DP use and waiting 5 seconds before casting again.

Haven’t done much PvP…PvP scares me a little bit!

I usually run with Divinity, Divine Plea, and use the last slot for Divine Protection or Beacon/Battle Healer. If using the 4pc Eternal Flame setup, I’ll mix Protector of the Innocent in there as well.

The only time I’ve ever found myself using the Glyph of Flash of Light is with the 4pc PVP “rotation” where you spend every GCD either casting Eternal Flame or generating HP, which means sometimes FoL-ing quite often. Other than that though, yeah, never.

I prefer the Glyph of Divine Plea, but it’s definitely per-person-preference. I would say however that it’s a good choice on Feng, Elegon, Tsulong (if you can time it with transitions properly), and Lei Shi due to lengthy periods of deadtime/no incoming damage where you safely have time to get off that 5s cast.

Ironically, PVE raiding is where I switch glyphs the least…I find myself swapping them in/out far more when doing Heroics or PVP, to get some extra damage to make heroics go faster (Denounce, Harsh Words) or to be able to do some PVP damage and survivability in PVP (Denounce, Harsh Words, Blessed Life, Blinding Light)