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(Disc) Tank heal filler
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IeatZoloft
Currently as disc, my primary roll is shield spam and tank assist. After all, with ICC and the raid wide auras many fights have, it's almost a full time job to burn through 25 GCD's. My thoroughput is good, mana regen and pool are fine for the task I'm doing, but as I pug more, I find myself assigned as a tank filler much more often.
My guild has 2 holy paladins. One is "Holy Light" spec, while one retains a "Flash of light" spec as a filler. These 2 healers comprise our main tank healers, leaving the rest of us to the raid. Many pugs have me fill in for the "FoL filler" role, and while I find my throughput is quite adequate, my mana efficiency crumbles. I recognize that disc priests are capable at filling many different roles, and the higher guilds recognize that no disc priest can ever truly trump any properly specced and skilled holy paladin, and so I ask you, wowhead community.
What are your feelings on Disc tank spamming, how do you manage it's mana demand, and does it's costs outweigh the benefits of raid damage mitigation?
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ZoraLink
When I had 40K mana...
Wow, what happened to your mana? :D
Nom nom nom
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SlowSide
disc priest can ever truly trump any properly specced and skilled holy paladin
I have both a priest & a paladin, I have healed on both through ToC10/ICC10 & I do not agree with that one bit. Paladins can provide far more brute force heals and arguably more raid utility, But Disc is just as strong for keeping tanks alive. Also in fights with lots of movement Disco has a huge edge, Pallies only get 1 instant cast & it's on a CD, PW:S will prevent as much damage as Holy Shock & can be cast back to back on multiple people, not to mention throwing out PoM, or even renew if desperate.
@ Fathomless - If a holy pally is putting up 70% + over heals they are using the wrong spell & wasting mana, or slow & picking of heals just after another healer has topped or nearly topped off the target. Even with Beacon, Judgement of Light & Holy Light splash healing 70% is hard for me to fathom. I healed ICC10 last week with about 40% over heals, I wasn't putting out 7-8k HPS average for the night, though it wasn't needed.
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