Smart Heals: Wrath spam Druid, Disc Priests and Fistweaver Monks

[HPAVC]

I have done all disc priest and it was hella slow, currently do single disc priest (atonement is what we are talking about here) when I grind. The mechanic of course goes to shit when the priest is locked up in any fashion where it cannot do damage or damage is reduced.

Melee mistweaver is fun.

You know where you cap out in hps vs dps, you won't have any issues. There are some numbers on just how much you can get numbers out of a monk and smite priest. I forgot, I think it was ~13,000 per second.

In situations like lets say Patchwerk (tank and soak example), and you have a single healer. You might find that the way the damage comes in the smart heals on the tank and the off tank are delayed and you're in trouble.

This is because it is looking at who needs healing most in way that isn't always helpful to keeping a tank up.

Another such example is if your dps characters are too close to your tank and you really don't "need" them healed, they will be stealing heals from the tank at times and put the tank at risk.

But of course this is cruise control grind rotation combat, you will obviously play better when actually needing to. Just saying how it works out if that wasn't apparent.

[luxlunae]

You know where you cap out in hps vs dps, you won't have any issues. There are some numbers on just how much you can get numbers out of a monk and smite priest. I forgot, I think it was ~13,000 per second.

I find this entire post of hpavc confusing. 6 year priest main talking.

In heroics where I don't do any healing other than bubble, pom, and atonement I do about 75-80k dps on my disc priest at 560 ilevel. I don't remember it ever being below 40k. Not sure where you're pulling 13k from?

There are no patchwerk healing fights any more where 2 regular hits can kill the tank, the way that health pools work now is different from BC. When the tank gets low the atonement heals them. I've never in my life worried that atonement was being "wasted" healing a dps. If a tank is low and atonement isn't enough then I switch to direct penances, pain suppressions, flash heals, but thats a function of atonement not being enough healing not atonement getting wasted or stolen. If (as a priest) you have multiple members of the group really low, you should be casting aoe heals and not atonement.