The HOW-TO priest healing GUIDE

[Littlewillow]

First off bear with me will be editing this as i go for things i forget...
also not seeing anything specific about holy priest but if itz repost sorryzz

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The priest is definatly one of the most vercitile healing classes in the game. A Holy priest can aoe heal, hot heal, and direct heal to compete with the best of em. There is bascially a heal for every situation, but the key is to not get lost in itz complexity.

in essence the priest has 3 types of heals; direct heals, aoe heals, and healing over time/on hit spells.

the most mana efficeint of these spells are
Greater Heal
Renue / Prayer of mending
Prayer of Healing

ideally these are the heals you use most often. Given there are cases where greater heal is too slow and a flash heal would be more prudent and a prayer of mending is not as preferably to insta cast circle of healing.. but ideally if you do it right 95% of all healing situations can be done with these 3 spells...

First therez order....

Start every pull with a prayer of mending on the tank. This will heal the first hit on the tank and give him a slight boost in aggro. IT can also be done a few seconds before the pull so ur still 100% mana by the time the action starts.*NOTE* on pally tanks ONLY you can also cast PW shield before combat to help lengthen the time before prayer of mending sets off and ALSO giving your tank more time to build aggro before you have to start healing. DO NOT USE PW SHIELD ON WARRIORS OR DRUIDS!!!!! it will keep them from obtaining rage and in turn kill their aggro and risk death to anyone doing dps or healing for the first few seconds of the pull..

Next let ur tank build some aggro and when hez around 70-80% hp start casting a greater heal. Be sure to start casting early in the case of a low geared tank or a high dps mob that can drop ur tank quickly. Ideally you want your greater heal to hit the tank at about 60%.. this should minimize overhealing... now, while ur casting ur greater heal spam renue that way the greater heal AND the renue hit the tank at nearly the same time....This will help your mana because you don't loose ur full mana regen until the finish of a spell so by casting renue immediatly after greater heal you minimize the time ur in half mana regen and maximize the time until your next heal.
If you have a good tank for the given fight your renue will keep the tank above 80% for a few seconds in many cases enough time for you to get most of ur spent mana back. this time start your cast when the tank is aroud 60% or so (assuming the tank still has renue on him AND the situation isn't dire...i.e. no tank below 70% on a boss) and cast a flash heal with a prayer of mending RIGHT after.
then just repeat from greaterheal/prayer of mending and ur set for tank healing with maximum mana efficiency.

Should shit hit the fan and your group take aoe damage. You need to spam prayer of healing with a prayer of mending on tank since itz likely the mobs on him will bring him lower than the other members of the gorup.. should that not be the case feel free to change circle of healing out for prayer of mending as needed. if you have a good tank and boss strat. you shouldn't see much aoe damage on the party for long so one to two aoe heals might be all u need. then ur back to the MT and the previeous strat.

BASIC RULES>>>
insta cast means more mana less healing....
long cast means less mana more healing.....
ALWAYS end a long cast with an immeadiate insta cast....
Plan ur heals to do the above without overhealing....
..oh and a good priest keeps fade on cooldown....

These steps will maximize your healing, minimize your mana use, AND reduce your threat in combat...

[Tomac123]

Did you copy and paste that?

[Meppuh]

Meh Flash heal spam ftw :x
And this guide is mostly fit for 5man and not raids, since in raids let ur tank drop to 60% = BAD

[l2theBR]

In raids (karazhan/za don't rly count) the tank is constantly going below 60% lol, especially on fights where the boss does burst damage.

And I disagree with not using PW:S on warriors/druids, if your all out of instants, and your tank is generally low HP and 1m hit could wipe the raid, a quick PW:S could save you guys. Also, Prot paladins get most of their threat generated from being hit lol, so using PW:S on them is even worst.

Assuming your talking about 5-mans, setting a greater heal off at 70-80% and wanting it to hit at 60% isn't accurate one bit, it all depends on how geared the tank is, and what kind of group you have. TBQH there's no set guide for healing, so many factors come in to play, like how much HP your tank has and what kind of encounter your doing. If your tank only has 10k HP, and low avoidance, spam flash heal. If your tank has 17k HP and his avoidance is around 80% unbuffed, I would wait until his HP is generally around 60% and just cap him off with a greater heal here and there. Then there's also the fights where your party is taking mass amount of damage too, so all you can do is instants on the tank+flash heal the party and the occasional heal on the tank when you get the chance or when he's low.

[Ferag]

PW:S = fail. Can you hit "1"? Can you put flash heal on "1"? Can you click on people and hit "1"? Grats, you can heal. (Not really that simple, but you can't write a guide on all the fine points)

[l2theBR]

Not a complete fail... like I said it's very situational. It can save your raid from a wipe. I can re-call about 4-5 times off the top of my head when it has saved us too. Like in fights where a boss does a silence, right after the silence if the tanks at 4k HP, your shield absorbs 2k and the boss hits for 5k, boss is about to kill him, throw a fast PW:S on the tank, he gets hit, brings him to 1k HP and in between that hit and the next the other healers can bring him up. I'm not talking about scrub 10 mans either, if your tank falls below 80% hp in karazhan you fail. ZA can be tough, but again it is generally very easy and simple. Gruul/Mag again, are scrubby and I don't really consider them a raid. SSC/TK are pretty hard, but again easy stuff, bosses shouldnt take you more then a couple hours each to down (not including Kael/Vashj)

[Dazed511]

Yeah, this must be intended for 5-mans.. 25 mans have too many healers to start a greater heal and actually get healing done if the tank is already down 20% HP... A lot of the time you won't even be the first to heal the tank with a flash heal...

[Littlewillow]

well first off i said ideally u want ur heal to hit at 60% not u cast at 70-80 and in 3 ec he'l be there. The idea is ur take ur tanks stats and the place hez tanking and make ur own judgement as to when to cast the heal.. so that it lands at 60%... and in raids your healing is way diff so yes ur not likely to spend ur days with greater heals... atleast not to start with....and ALL healing is relative so NO guide can fit EVERY senario

and i'm couting raids as well.. if a raid is organized well each healer has a designated tank or target anyway.. so in general u only heal a few people.. given if ur tank is at 20% get the **** heals on him..

and when is aid about PW: S i mean before a pull not during a fight and not when ur tank is at 10%....

kinda feels like ur nit picking it apart just to critisize.. and no i didn't copy and paste i typed it all out of my own head to be honest and true...was bored in my assembly programming class....

and itz meant to be a general guide to newer healers not to people in 25 man raids anyway....the audience i was shootin at was the people just hitting 70 and wondering if they know how to heal the "real" stuff i.e. heroiks + (and yes i know i spelt it wrong.. .itz intentional...) anyway just givin some info...

oh and btw about pallyz.. i have one.. and u can still block while in a bubble which is what ACTUALLY gives a pally threat so a bubble doesn't hurt their threat. all it does is stop reckoning or their shield proc to happen for a few seconds.. and even still itz a fair trade off 700 hp for not much more than 200-500 threat?

anyway thnkx for reading

[Littlewillow]

PW:S = fail. Can you hit "1"? Can you put flash heal on "1"? Can you click on people and hit "1"? Grats, you can heal. (Not really that simple, but you can't write a guide on all the fine points)

well man idk ur experience but based on that statement i think most would call you a healing noob.....

healing is definatly NOT a press a button and ur good task.. really.. nothing is..

i might as well tell you that tanking for a warrior is nothing but sunder spams.. -_-
or dps is nothing but heroik strike spam....

and PW:S is in no way fail if used right itz one of the tools a priest has that sperates it from other similar healing classes....

[Littlewillow]

Meh Flash heal spam ftw :x
And this guide is mostly fit for 5man and not raids, since in raids let ur tank drop to 60% = BAD

while ur right about not letting tanks hit 60%.. ur very wrong about flash heal spam...

flash heal spam is almost the most inefficient use of ur mana as a priest.. it does get the job done but unles your over geared for the encounter you can't flash heal spam ur way through many bosses in raids.... well.. atleast not without being a shitty priest and being help up by the other hopefully good healers in the raid....flash spams are for pallyz.. not priests...

and a tank dropping to 60% when itz controlled isn't bad at all...and imo recomened when your comfertable with it and you don't **** up.. and capable priest whoz on top of the warrior can get a tank back to full from <25% if they want to.. so 60% for a knowledgeable priest is nothing...*rols eyes* given if ur tank only has 10k hp and is undergeared for the occasion or on a fresh start in kara etc... you might want to play it safe...

but the guide is meant to explain a strategy to best conserve mana while still being a major part of the healing....going kara tonight i'll have to drop in some screenshots to illustrate the mana savings... take what u can and learn otherwise gratz on what ya already know.. really tho not likely to get much past kara if all u do is spam flash...

[matrixcy]

flash heal spax ftw x) just need some gear

[kinkey]

I like flash heal the most but in some suititation (sorry for spelling) I take Greater healing

[Xzodus]

worst guide ever... This does also look like a copy + paste, will look into it.

In raids (karazhan/za don't rly count) the tank is constantly going below 60&#37; lol, especially on fights where the boss does burst damage.

And I disagree with not using PW:S on warriors/druids, if your all out of instants, and your tank is generally low HP and 1m hit could wipe the raid, a quick PW:S could save you guys. Also, Prot paladins get most of their threat generated from being hit lol, so using PW:S on them is even worst.

Assuming your talking about 5-mans, setting a greater heal off at 70-80% and wanting it to hit at 60% isn't accurate one bit, it all depends on how geared the tank is, and what kind of group you have. TBQH there's no set guide for healing, so many factors come in to play, like how much HP your tank has and what kind of encounter your doing. If your tank only has 10k HP, and low avoidance, spam flash heal. If your tank has 17k HP and his avoidance is around 80% unbuffed, I would wait until his HP is generally around 60% and just cap him off with a greater heal here and there. Then there's also the fights where your party is taking mass amount of damage too, so all you can do is instants on the tank+flash heal the party and the occasional heal on the tank when you get the chance or when he's low.

LAWL, ZA doesn't count? The undead section (the ones you have to shackle), hit so hard; I have seen guilds that have cleared BT fall on that one part; obviously you have not raided end game.
When your take is at 80% and he is your priority; even with the best gear out there, he should be constantly healed. And if your tank has 10k, do not let him tank; not even OT, MT should have
12-14k unbuffed health, OT should be the same too.