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fading_stardust in wow_ladies

How do disc?

Dec 20, 2014 18:08

My guild has asked me, in preparation for next week's progression attempts to go Disc, namely for the Butcher fight. Up to this point I have only been a holy priest, mainly because I have always been in guilds with other priests that could go disc and would generally prefer to do so ( Read more... )

priest: discipline, discussion: class, raid: warlords of draenor

Comments 7

silvers_shadows December 21 2014, 01:40:19 UTC

Disc healing is not, imo, in a good state right now especially compared to Holy, so I'm curious as to why your guild is wanting you to switch for this fight - is there some specific mechanic they want you to help with? This may change how you'd spec/play for the fight.

fading_stardust December 21 2014, 03:48:35 UTC

My assumption is that they're thinking the absorbs will be a good pairing with the healing of the others, plus the extra damage I'd be able to add.

To be honest, the whole raid is taking massive amounts of damage and by the time the boss is down to 20-ish percent I'm out of mana and thats even with trying to be extra careful about zero overhealing. (in holy)

We have the two cleave groups and we've attempted the taking both 4 stacks and 3 stacks, but I don't notice much of a difference between the two healing wise. Everyone is just taking f-tons of damage, including the tanks.

silvers_shadows December 21 2014, 03:52:23 UTC

Butcher is a DPS race, albeit with some strat thrown in. To be frank, I don't know if switching to Disc given it's current meh-ness is going to help - especially since the nerf to the healing throughput from Smite etc.

(I'm not trying to disparage you or your guild at all! I'm just concerned that you respeccing Disc may not help in the long run)

ETA: That said I don't have any solid suggestions on what to do otherwise so I should shut up *facepalm*

chilayse December 21 2014, 03:59:58 UTC

While my healing spec is disc, i haven't touched it in raiding. I've been shadow. Are they sure disc would help any though?

icy veins is my go to source, and if i were in your shoes i'd try to do a few dungeons before you use it in raid, just to get used to the feel of it.

automaticdream December 21 2014, 05:44:14 UTC

Coming from a holy priest that's never been disc, I tried disc and couldn't get past bronze proving grounds even after fully changing gems, enchants and glyphs.

Maybe I'm just set in my ways - but maybe if you're not well practiced in disc, it won't be a simple matter of just changing spec for that fight.

doglets December 24 2014, 01:14:47 UTC

A lot of disc healing is preventive rather than reactive raw healing. The biggest change I had to adapt to was focusing boss for smiting, rather than focussing player. To disc well needs to be able to predict when high damage is coming and shield people accordingly ( ... )

zomgshield January 2 2015, 16:25:05 UTC

It all depends on the playstyle of your group and the other healers. Do they need you to mostly tank heal or spot on the group? This would dictate which talents you choose. WoM would be great for spot healing the group, as it procs off of your absorbs and heals, and you can have your PoM out as well as one proc'd from WoM. This will greatly boost your aoe capability.

If you are mostly healing a single target or two Clarity of Will becomes strong if you can predict damage. You can, between PWS, Spirit Shell, and DA, get around 200K absorbs on a target with Clarity. My main spells in a raid would be PWS and Penance, Clarity or WoM's PoM depending on needed talents, Flash when you need a buffer while waiting for a Penance or PWS cooldown.

PoH should only be used on aoe damage, but you should work that out with your other heals, perhaps having Spirit Shell activate with PoH to make aoe shields would be of benefit? I macro Spirit Shell to PoH if I group heal, or to Flash if I am mostly tank healing.