Comments on: How I’m healing in MoP – Holy Pally 4eva: Your Cooldowns. Use Them.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:47:52 +0000

Thanks Ace! <3

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:46:41 +0000

Good point! I’ll find a way to fit that in when I update the post tomorrow.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:45:10 +0000

I did consider trinkets, then thought “all of my trinket auto-proc”. Because obviously everyone uses the same trinkets as me, haha. I’ll update the post.

I definitely agree with using the output CDs to reduce mana requirements. I see it that way too. I thought I had put it in the post, but I guess it wasn’t very clear. Will edit!

By: Ace

Ace — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:52:28 +0000

Hey I enjoyed reading the post. Really good stuff in here that is rarely utlized by many. Great breakdown and examples for CD’s. Spreading your cds like you expressed above is huge and utilizing them all to your advantage is key. We have come along way since Icc of Holy light or Flash of light builds. Each patch/Tier they add more tools to our healing toolbelt. To maximize a holy paladins potential I suggest holy pallys to read this. Good stuff Rykga!

Ace

By: Talarian

Talarian — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:24:26 +0000

I am so guilty about not using my cooldowns enough. I’m great as using them when crap hits the fan, but being more proactive rather than letting them sit is something I really need to work on.

Potion use can be the difference between ending a fight OOM, or having the mana to keep going. Many fights have a moment where you can hit Divine Plea and sit down for 10 seconds to get that Potion of Focus. Between those two and your natural regen, it’s pretty easy to get back nearly half your mana pool in that 10 second period. Just make sure you let your other healers know that you’re doing that.

I prefer the cast-time Divine Plea myself, as mentioned in previous comments, because there’s far more opportunities for a 3 – 4 second cast time than there is for 9 – 10 seconds of 50% healing mortal strike.

Finally, pre-potting the intellect potion actually makes sense in fights with tight enrage timers. Gara’jal is an interesting case since healing is so light at the beginning. Pop the intellect pot before the pull, then Avenging Wrath, Divine Favor, throw down your Hammer of Light/Execution Sentence on the boss and go to town spamming Denounce for 20 seconds. The amount of burst DPS that Holy is capable of doing that is actually quite impressive (I’ve clocked upwards of 40k – 50k DPS at the start doing that before).

By: Sol

Sol — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:04:12 +0000

Good run down. I probably would add trinkets for completeness, and probably under mana.

Particularly at times when I am “just” or undergeared, I will often view my more frequent output CDs as “mana” CDs, as good use of them allows me to spend less mana keeping everyone healed, saving my mana for those points in the fight when it is needed.