Comments on: How I’m healing in MoP – Holy Pally 4eva: Holy Power Healing

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 02:21:50 +0000

It does scale linearly. I tested it after you commented

I’ll fix your name, sorry about that. I think I fried my brain or something.

By: Talarian

Talarian — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 01:57:49 +0000

Yeah, the PvP 4 piece definitely requires waiting for 3 HP.

I’ll have to look through some of my logs as well, or at least test it on myself or something. One would assume that the spellpower coefficient is also getting scaled or some such, otherwise you’d run into the Vanilla/TBC problem of people casting lower tier heals but getting almost as much healing out of it for cheap.

At the risk of sounding ungrateful, my handle is spelled incorrectly in your edit. Should be all ‘a’, no ‘e’ in my handle.

Thanks for the posts so far, I’ve learned a couple things out of them that I’ve taken back to my own healing. I may be an old hand at Holy Paladin-ing, but it’s good to see what others are doing.

By: Talarian

Talarian — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 01:52:22 +0000

Interesting point about Divine Purpose is that the proc chance is normalized with the HP you spend. A 1 HP cast is about 8.33% chance to proc, a 2 HP cast is about 16.67%, and a 3 HP cast is the full 25%. Sadly this information isn’t listed in game, but WoWHead’s comments as well as numerous posts on WoW’s forums (but haven’t found the patch notes or a blue post which confirms).

Thankfully once you’ve procced Divine Purpose, further casts count as 3 HP casts so it’s easier to continue chaining once you’re up and running versus hoping that you hit Divine Purpose when using that 1 HP LoD/WoG.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 01:11:42 +0000

I actually meant to mention the Divine Purpose proc, but in my rush to get the post out, I completely forgot!

I thought I did include the mana factor in the post… I think that part of the post needs an overhaul, haha. That’s what I get for rushing.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 01:09:48 +0000

I had gone by what I was noticing in logs – that those who were getting much more healing out of their Eternal Flame had their Eternal Flames ticking for far more than my 1 hp Eternal Flames.

But after thinking about what you pointed out – 3 people with 1 hp Holy Power should come out to the same as one person with 3 hp. Better perhaps, because you’ve got 3 people getting little heals, rather than one person getting overhealed.

If the PvP 4 piece is being used, however, you do need to use 3 holy power, otherwise you don’t benefit from the bonus. And in 10 man, on fights where it’s possible to have 2-3 Holy Power Eternal Flames on most, if not all, of the raid, you might as well go all out with stronger Eternal Flames.

I’ll update the post.

By: Rades (@_Rades)

Rades (@_Rades) — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:41:25 +0000

It’s also interesting to consider another aspect of using 1HP Word of Glory / Eternal Flames – to potentially proc a free 3HP from Divine Purpose. If your HP generators are on CD and you need that powerful heal RIGHT NOW it might be worth the gamble to use your lone HP to try to get a full free WoG…though it’s a risk, haha.

It might be useful when you’re OOM also though, rather than wait for Holy Shock CD / enough mana to Holy Radiance? Toss the 1HP WoG, and pray you get a proc (or maybe even a string of procs, as Divine Purpose likes to do)

By: Talarian

Talarian — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:44:46 +0000

Interesting about the sinking 1 HP vs 3 HP. Given that the spells should scale linearly with HP, what brought you to that conclusion?

I mean, if I’m Eternal Flame Blanketing, I pretty much use 3 HP Eternal Flames on the tanks and then maybe a couple 1 HP EF on raid members, but is my original assumption about linear scaling off?