If you’re in a raid with another priest you start sniping each others shields cause of weakened soul and you’re competing over stupidity like that which causes you to only not focus on this when you have a massive CoH opportunity, when PoM is on CD or stagnant somewhere.
I won’t go into the fact that I hate playing with other priest when I’m not on my own, but healing as pala and druid since shield makes so many mechanics boring and WORST OF ALL, this week, priests don’t fix red affix debuff, meaning their braindead shielding doesn’t remove the debuff once the raid damage starts rolling.
Please, Blizzard, both as a priest player and as a druid/pala healer player I beg you, adjust some runes to allow for a non shield priest playstyle to be more viable so that in raids with multiple priests, they can adjust (like hunters can be MM and Surv when playing together or locks with MoC and Pact vs full DPS).
I said viable. Even as holy, you spam shield. Max healing, but without PI priest spec is 21/30/0 and it uses shield, CoH, PoM, rank 1 renew.
Do you even play a healer mate. CoH is far better than penance, so penance isn’t used. Both T1 and T2 have CoH related bonuses. Plus, for movement CoH is better, since it’s instant with half the CD as Penance.
True, but:
Shield has no overheal, so perfect for logs so its still spammed
Fight are short enough that mana isn’t an issue
If mana is the issue, Innervates are almost exclusively reserved for priests (since resto druids will use Core-forget 2 set even after Naxx)
Mana pot, dark rune, shadowfiend and dispersion are in the arsenal of the priest anyway.
I pointed out that Penance has almost no place in BWL or ZG as is now. So, you saying that Penance is what replaces shield is silly
I don’t know a long enough fight where shadowfiend, dispersion, mana pot, dark rune and innervate aren’t enough for a healer. If you look at top healers on logs, their number 1 heal is Shield and then CoH or Flash heal.
In ideation yes, in practice it’s the best way to pad the meter while there’s no damage, preparing for upcoming hits. Again shield is the number one healing spell on priests, look up logs, or play a priest. This is ofc skewed because they spam it for meters/logs
priest shield absorbs the red affix tick damage tho.
doesn’t heal it, but pauses it for a second or two, giving the other healers an opening to heal it up with less trouble.
That’s’ correct, Potatomilk, so shield is a powerhouse again… Meaning two priests in one raid = trying to sneak between Weakened Soul debuff, trying to not overlap PoMending and organizing who CoHs which group. In pugs its a free for all and terrible. I just wish there was some other way, like a rune to buff lightwell and make it aoe heal in a range, to make SoRedemption not just a PvP rune etc…
powerword shield is actually the meta for disc priest now.
kekw.
you just spam shields throughout the whole fight on key targets and do very minor amounts of actual healing.
once you got soul warding rune, the spell changes fundamentally and becomes a giga powerhouse.
i was curious about my raid’s logs yesterday cus we had some pugs in our MC h2 run, and one of them was a disc priest.
mate, he TOPPED HEALING through sheer absorbs aka powerword shields.
that being said; i absolutely know the peril of being a disc priest in a raid with another disc priest.
you constantly feel like you’re competing with the other priest to “snipe” shield buffs on the raid (especially the tanks).
