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First Time Raid as a Disc Priest - Advice?

Nov 11, 2012 14:08

I am raiding for the first time tonight on my disc priest. I raided in Cata and Wrath on my warlock, and this is my first time healing and I am TERRIFIED of underperforming. I am just about thoroughly gemmed and enchanted (waiting on an enchant from guildies later on today before raid at 9pmEST ( Read more... )

raiding: tips, priest: discipline

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regen November 11 2012, 19:29:39 UTC

You should expect to do both tank and raid healing, regardless of specific healing assignments (especially on 10m). The best advice I can give you is to read strategies/watch videos for the fights you know you'll be attempting. That will help you know ahead of time what single target/AoE damage abilities will be hitting the group, and when to use your major cooldowns. There might even be discipline tips for encounters on the b.net healing/priest forums, or at elitistjerks.com.

My boyfriend switches between Holy and Disc depending on what's stronger for each encounter, but I know as Disc he has Spirit Shell macros for Greater Heal and Prayer of Healing so he can keep the spell on cooldown as much as possible.

soozquu November 11 2012, 21:37:19 UTC

As a disc priest, you can easily heal both the tank and raid. Just talk about it with your raid team. Generally, though, even if you are assigned to "raid", you will still want to keep the tank(s) shielded at all times and keep pom bouncing off of them. Make sure your raid leader sets up the party with tanks/melee in one group and healers/ranged in the other. Your PoH spell is partywide only (even though all other healers group heals are raid wide ... but that's a QQ for another time :p ( ... )