pvp (world) leveling, healing and you!

[Garm]

Heya gang! So... I'm kinda getting tired of my care bear existence on PVE Uldaman now that I am used to boxing for a few months... and I'm gonna start up my lvl 7 (lol) priests on Mag again.

I have my PVE healing down pretty easy by my main macro /cast [help] [target=targettarget, help] [target=player] *healspell* and spread the casts around to all the characters. The few times I've done AV (for the quests :P ), besides the fact that I need practice dealing with a toon dying and switching focus, my PVE healing breaks down... cuz <gasp> that dang rogue ignores my threat on frostshock!!!

I'm wondering if anyone has any tidbits that I could put into my repertoire and get used to as I level. Standing on the shoulders of you giants is quite fun, I've played this game for just about 3 years now, and just as I was about to give up from boredom I stumble on you guys 8o

[Stealthy]

If you play on a pvp server, spec for PvP i say! On Mag you will get people ganking you just becuase you're a boxer. You find this happens most often in Hillsbrad & STV, but other than those areas I pretty much got left alone. Anyway, you just suck it up and mvoe on, or if its repeated get one of us with a 70's group to come help...I wouldn't run with 5 priests, but thats just me...still you're only level 7, so changing your lineup now won't be too hard...



Cheers,

Stealthy

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Only one real thing to do with priests to be successful in PVP: spec Circle of Healing and Unbreakable Will. The rest is gravy.

OK, so I'm employing a bit of silliness but I can't recall the number of times I've been able to survive gank attempts by people 10-15 levels higher than me due to having an instant, uninterruptible AoE heal. At 70 with trash greens, it heals for 1100-1400 a pop, every 2 seconds. Quite a lot more with trinkets popped. For most world PVP, that's plenty. BGs are a different story but that's true for anybody.

[Garm]

Ok, after some goofing around with my macro, I added a new qualifier::
/cast [help] [target=focustarget, help] [target=targettarget, help] [target=player] Renew
One of my problems was relying on mobs picking my targettarget to heal, without that bold addition. Or having to hit the "/assist /follow" key to get the toon to heal which would spin guys around and maybe make them move and break casting. Of course I could have made another macro "/assist" without the follow... but I'm kinda happy with my noob self thinking through a mod to this one . Of course it seems so obvious now.
/facepalm