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1. Beginning Raid Heals for Priests
Inevitable Betrayal

3. Specialization Basics
•Holy – Healing
•Discipline – Healing
•Shadow - DPS

4. Holy
• Best for Raid healing (10 to 25 man)
• Chakras – learned at lvl 56
• Chastise – increase damage done
• Sanctuary – increase AOE healing
• Serenity – increase single target healing

5. Holy
• Stat Priority
• Lvl 1 to 79
• Focus on Intellect & Spirit
• Lvl 80+
• Focus on Intellect & Spirit
• Start looking for: Haste, Crit, then Mastery

6. Discipline (Disc)
• Focuses on
• Damage Absorption and Mitigation
• Aims at avoiding damage and smoothing out
incoming damage
• Strategic use of shields to reduce need for
healing
• Can tank heal or raid heal

7. Discipline (Disc)
• Stat Priority
• Lvl 1 to 79
• Focus on Intellect & Spirit
• Lvl 80+
• Focus on Intellect & Spirit
• Start looking for: Crit, Mastery, then Haste

8. Discipline (Disc)
• Crit v. Mastery
• Focus on Crit
• Atonement Healing
• Focus on Mastery
• Increase basic Healing

9. Discipline (Disc)
• Atonement
• Allows you to heal players by attacking enemy
with Smite, Holy Fire, and Penance
• Lowest Health player within 40 yards of target is
healed equal to the amount of damage the priest
did
• Each Smite, Holy Fire, and Penance places a stack
of Evangelism on the enemy

10. Discipline (Disc)
• Evangelism
• Want to keep as many stacks on the target as you
can
• Use Archangel to consume the stacks and gain up
to 25% healing increase
• Use Archangel when lots of damage is occurring

11. Shadow
• DPS only
• Maintain Shadow form
• Weak heals and shields, but can help heal in a
pinch; but kicks you out of shadow form, so
lower dps

12. Shadow Priests
How to Help with Healing

13. Shadow Priest Help
• Possibly switch holy for diversity - shield or communication
• Shadow Priest - always help with cascade, holy nova, and
divine star for last talent
• Critical - be willing to hit hymn of hope for mana
regeneration. Needs to be coordinated for mana
regeneration at a time.
• Hit mana regeneration during lull - knowing fight and 7.75
sec need 8 seconds
• Communicate to other healers to watch people

14. Priests
• MANA is the most important attribute

15. What affects Mana?
• Intelligence:
• Determines the AMOUNT of mana (prior to MoP)
• Increased spell power (increases average heal)
• Increases critical strike (Doubles you heal amount)
• Spirit:
• Determines how fast you REGENERATE mana
• In combat & out of combat

16. In combat regeneration
• Use wand to attack and conserve mana
• Not very effective attack
• Mindbender (Talent at lvl 45)
• Summon a shadow fiend to attack target
• Each fiend attack gives priest up to 5% of total
mana back
• % back increases with character level

17. Suggested Talents
• Level 15: Dominate Mind
• Takes control of an enemy player or NPC
• Level 30: Angelic Feather
• Allows you to place up to 3 feathers that increase
movement by 60% for 4 seconds
• Level 45: Mindbender
• Gives a reliable Mana regeneration cooldown

18. Suggested Talents
• Level 60: Desperate Prayer
• Instance cast, self-heal for 30% of max health
• Level 75: Power Infusion
• Increases casting by 20% and reduces mana cost of
spells by 20% for 20 secs
• Level 90: Cascade
• Chain heal that bounces from target to target ;
bounces up to 3 times

19. Types of Healing
• Just like in DPS
• Single Target Healing
• Most efficient spell for healing a single person
• AKA: Tank heals
• Area of Effect (AOE) Healing
• Most efficient spell for healing group
• AKA: Raid Heals

20. Useful Spells
• Power Word: Fortitude (Fort)
• Always cast on yourself/ group
• Increases Stamina by 10%
• Hymn of Hope
• Group wide Mana Regen
• Fear Ward
• Grants one person immunity to a fear attack

21. Useful Spells
• Purify
• Will remove all Magic and Disease effects on friendly
target
• Dispel
• Will remove one beneficial Magic effect from an
enemy
• Silence
• Interrupt the target’s spell casting for 45 secs

22. Useful Spells
• Mass Dispel
• Remove one harmful magical effect from every
friendly player and one beneficial magical effect
from every enemy within 15yards of the caster.
• Capped at 10 friendly and 10 enemy dispels
• Can also remove effects in raids that are normally
not dispellable

23. Useful Spells
• Psychic Scream
• AOE Fear up to 8 enemies
• Shackle “Undead”
• Allows you to crowd control undead enemies
• Does not work on Forsaken
• Fade
• Will reduce priest’s threat to all enemies

24. Useful Spells
• Leap of Faith
• Pulls a friendly target to you
• Good for getting that certain DPS out of the fire

25. Useful Spells
• Vampiric Embrace – Lvl 78
• Heals you and your allies for 50% of the damage
you deal for 15 seconds.
• Shadow spec only spell

26. Why Discipline?
• Shielding and Absorption for Tank and Raid
• Heal automatically by dealing damage (smart
healing and mana efficient)
• More versatile can heal single, raid and
contribute to DPS

27. Why Discipline?
• AOE with Cascade , Divine Star
• Prayer of Mending: Heals 1 person and then
heals 4 more
• Prayer of Healing: AOE healing

28. Why Holy?
• In a Raid situation, no absorbs but depending
on which Shakra can do individual healing plus
25 % heals in raid
• Renew Stronger
• Divine Hymn

29. Why Holy?
• Extra AOE healing similar to a Druid
• Lightsprings
• Divine Hymn

30. Gear Basics
• Intel comes on every piece but still need to
enchant for it
• Spirit 8,000 minimum

31. Gear Basics - Disc
• Mastery increased absorbs
• Crit increases chance of spells and heals to hit and
proc for divine aegis
• Don’t worry about Hit
• Could crit build
• Crit-ing more often makes absorbs stronger

32. Gear Basics - Holy
• Haste
• Mastery works as secondary

33. GEMS
GEM for Spirit

34. GEMS
• Red – brilliant
• Purple – purified for intel and spirit
• Blue - sparkling, purified
• Yellow – fractured for mastery
• Orange – artful for intel and mastery
• Green – zen for spirit and mastery
• Meta – Revitalizing

35. Stat Priority
• Discipline
• Always spirit, then mastery then crit
• Holy
• Spirit, then haste, then mastery

36. Disc Glyphs
• Holy Fire
• Range of holy fire and smite by 10 yard
improvement
• Penance
• Move while casting but increase mana cost
• Power Word Shield
• Shield 20% more effective

37. Holy Glyphs
• Lightspring Glyph
• No clicking
• Lightwell
• Change total amount of charges by 2
• Holy Nova or Renew
• Based on Play Style

38. Reforging
• Disc
• Spirit – Mastery - Crit
• Holy
• Spirit – Haste - Mastery

39. GEMS DISC
Gem Combination
Spirit/Crit then Spirit/Mastery

40. GEMS HOLY
Gem Combination
Spirit/Haste then Spirit/Mastery
More Haste means more ticks on Renew,
Holy Word Santuary, Divine Hymn

41. Buffs
• Inner Fire – increases your stamina and spell
power. ALWAYS KEEP THIS UP!
EXCEPT when you need
• Inner Will – use when you will need lots of
instant cast spells and increased movement
speed

42. Note: Power Word Shield
PWS can be redundant if more than one holy priest.
Coordination needed.

43. Meloddius’ Notes
I (Meloddius) don't have a set rotation for
heals or damage, but I have priority system for
my spells, shields and shells that I use
depending on
• Healing assignment
• Raid composition
• Experience and gear of others in group
• Trash and Boss fights for dungeon, raid, LFR
and guild run

44. Rotation/Priority System
There is not a ‘true”rotation for Priests (in my
opinion). To be an effective healer you need to be
aware of your talents, glyphs, spells, shields, buffs,
and gear. What do they do? How do they help me
or the others in my group? What or who do I need
to monitor the most? Which spell / shield
combinations are the most effective for which
situations? You need to carry 5 to 8 Tomes with you
so that you can adjust your talents and glyphs as
needed to benefit the group. Knowing your TOON
and situational awareness go a LONG WAY!!!

45. Rough Rotation for Helping Raid
• Power Word Shield Tank
• Prayer of Mending on Raid
• Then go back to Tank

46. These are ALWAYS your go-to Spells
• Penance on boss (builds evangelism)
• Holy fire on boss (builds evangelism)
• 4 smites ( for a 5 stack of evangelism)
• Triggers archangel, hit archangel to consume
the stacks of evangelism and increase healing
by 5% up to 25%.

47. Depending on what is need:
*****Can pop PW infusion, holy fire,
spam smite until holy fire is available
do it again when PW infusion is there

48. Depending on what is need:
• If everyone okay - PWS on tank then prayer of mending (
jumps 5 times) possibly a penance on tank or boss
• If AOE damage on raid - after archangel, spirit shell with
spamming prayer of healing, (intensifying absorbs) for 15
seconds - all healing transferred into stronger absorb
shields
• Throw in cascade (SO), divine star ( grouped) , holy nova (
SO)
• Every second or third time going into holy fire rotation.

49. Switching Based on Raid/Boss
• Possibly switch holy for diversity - shield or communication
• Shadow Priest - always help with cascade, holy nova, and
divine star for last talent
• Critical - be willing to hit hymn of hope for mana
regeneration. Needs to be coordinated for mana
regeneration at a time.
• Hit mana regeneration during lull - knowing fight and 7.75
sec need 8 seconds

50. Healing Team
• Communicate and Coordinate Cool-downs
• Be ready to help and announce when you are
helping
• Do not duplicate
• You will need to move and heal; so practice

51. Mogu’Shan Vaults Healing

52. Stoneguard
• Disc Priests
When getting ready to overload - a few seconds
before try to PW infusion, spirit shell, prayer of
healing and cascade - roughly

53. Feng
• Disc Priests
• smite atonement from center
• if nullification barrier ready - cascade basic prayer of mending
• no barrier - healers alternate big cool-downs
• D- power word barrier
Circle in center
Prayer of healing on everyone
Holy - divine hymn, holy word santuary

54. Gar’Jal
•
• stacking people - AOE healing
• D- power word shield on anyone with Voodoo Doll and prayer of healing,
fast smite rotation with power word infusion
• up to 75 % cascade, penance and doing prayer of mending ASAP blow
every bit of mana
• Mana regn
• H- getting renew, holy word sanctuary if stacked, cascade
• PW infusion and do flash healsHoly - divine hymn, holy word santuary

55. Spirit Kings
• 4 bosses Order:
• 1) Qiang
• 2) Subetai
• 3 &4) Meng and Zian - alternate in order but will always be the
last two
• Stacking key
• Annihilate - 2 people separate from the group
• AOE healing massive attack, behind the boss
• watch out for flanking, keep them stacked

56. Elegon
•
• Split groups into two
2 healers - side of where the off tank before total
annihilation
• Keep stacks below 10
• AOE heals - spirit shell, PW sanctuary, area to stack
• Coordinate with other healers
• Orbs - tank need to be with healers

57. Will of the Emperor
• Try not to do any healing until boss is down. Void tendrils,
pysche
• Stack towards center point - Keep tanks up until titan gas
phase
• Coordinate big heals and barriers
• Focus on tank as well as heals during titan gas
• Smiting atonement on boss
• Switch from tank to tank watching whole heal group
• low on mana after titan gas good for hymn of hope
• let dps know you have rage on you

58. Jin’Rohk
• Stay near tanks during pull
• Everyone takes AOE damage - all healers need
to help
• Focused Lightening - need to communicate
about coverage
• when person gets back - need to help raid
health back
• alternate cool-down during lightning storm

59. Healing Discussion with Raid
• Every class has some form of damage
mitigation need to do whatever you can to
mitigate
• Priest have Pain Suppression, too.
• Potion
• Lock candy
• Be aware of other classes.