Today, we'll touch on mana proficiency and Chakra before wrapping up with a record of tips and tricks regarding how to heal as a holy priest.

Talent breakdown
Last week I talked about talent builds but didn't break right down the man or women talents. Here is the breakdown I owe you.

Holy
Empowered Healing Though these talents only buff single-target spells, you ought to expect to consider them just to progress even more into the tree. It won't harm for when you're within your Chakra: Serenity stance.

Divine Fury These talents decrease the cast time on each Heal and Greater Heal, each of which will in all probability be quite vital when you're doing any amount of single-target healing.

Desperate Prayer an awesome offer of players have asked if this talent is worth taking, and it most certainly is when you're in a very dire situation. You're more in all probability to end up in a very single of those situations in a very raid though, so if you just run 5-mans I can see this getting a bit excessive. (This talent will in all probability be buffed in an incoming patch and should tackle any complaints that it doesn't heal for enough.)

Surge of Light The proc from these talents is quite agreeable if you are available throughout yourself doing some single-target healing a 5-mans or raid.

Inspiration obtaining this like a holy priest isn't even a question, you just get it and proceed along. You're capable of healing so many targets that it just makes feeling that you just improve the mitigation on every participant you hit with a crit. great for single-target and AoE healing, particularly in substantial raid damage fights.

Divine Touch The healing from this talent isn't all that big in the grand scheme of things, but every little bit counts if you're casting the spell anyway, right? It is truly an awesome offer of talents to invest for such a little amount of healing though, so if you don't plan on obtaining Rapid Renewal in the next tier, you can also contemplate skipping this. (I'll post an write-up from Derevka later on this area where he explains this further.) a single issue to note is the fact how the instant cast impact from Divine Touch allows Renew to be counted like a direct heal. This could be vital for any

Healing as a holy priest
There following are some general healing tips for holy priests. Always use Prayer of Mending on cooldown. No matter what spec you are, it's a single of your strongest healing spells since it performs on its individual after you deliver it out into the world.

Don't spam anything, but most especially, don't spam Renew. The times of Renew spam are over, and if you try to blanket your party or raid with HoTs, you will cripple your resources. Only use Renew on players who need it! In raids, use Circle of Healing as much as possible, even if it's not as powerful as it accustomed to be. It's still a smart heal, as well as your mana regeneration should have no trouble handling it.

Always be looking for opportunities to utilize Prayer of Healing. It's the strongest spell you have right now, and it will account for most of your healing done. You'll almost never overheal with it, but retain in mind that you just still want it to be effective. Use it when you possess the possibility to heal most of a group at once (read: 3 members on the minimum, 4 preferred, and 5 for epic win.)

Alert your party or raid that you've set right down a Lightwell so they know it's accessible for consumption. Be mindful of Surge of Light. Every time you get a proc, be sure you use Flash Heal on someone, anybody so it doesn't go to waste. You can always use it on yourself.

Heal is your filler spell; use it whenever you can't cast anything else. It's inexpensive and effective and can proc Surge of Light!

help save Guardian Spirit for a situation where somebody is going to die, but once you've used it on a target, decide if you can retain that target alive or not. If you can't, let him die and get brought back as much as 50% by the spell, then start healing him again. If you can retain him alive, then spam heals on him and consider benefit of that 40% healing buff. Basically you need to decide if the talent can perform more healing than you can throughout the capabilities duration, and commit your time accordingly.

Avoid Flash Heal unless you totally need it to help save the day. It's a single inside the minimum effective spells you have.

When you do have to utilize Flash Heal, keep in mind that it will utilize a stack of Serendipity. Be mindful to utilize a Greater Heal or Prayer of Healing after you use Flash Heal, since the cast time and mana cost will in all probability be lowered by Serendipity.

Keep in mind that Binding Heal also stacks up Serendipity.
Use Body and Soul to obtain around anything and everything that is within your way. If you use the ability pre-emptively, you might get to where you need to be and get a head start on the next few moments inside the fight. This is terrific for raids when other players need to proceed in tandem; you'll be the first healer back on duty after big group movements.
Warlock and hunter groups love Prayer of Healing, since your Prayer of Healing will heal their pets too.

You can roll Renew on three various targets continually if you time it right. Start by casting Renew on two targets back to back, then refresh their duration by casting Heal on each of them, then add within your 3rd target by hitting them with a Renew. From there you ought to be in a position to rotate between each player, just casting Heal, and you'll never need to refresh Renew. Heal is truly a fraction inside the cost of Renew so this is very mana efficient, however it's not practical in lots of situations.

If you're running reduced on mana change to Serenity stance. Since it's oriented round the very mana effective Heal, you'll be in a position to stay optimized and contribute towards the encounter, but relax the strain on your mana pool.

Believe of Holy Nova like a utility, not like a heal. believe snake traps and the sort.
A holy priest's Leap of Faith grants Body and Soul. Paired with Power Word: Shield you have a opportunity to help your party members with things like kiting by chaining the Body and Soul impact multiple times. Thank you! Have a good time in the game!