Comments for Completely EleMENTAL

Comment on Something Light by Ahinoam

Ahinoam — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:09:39 +0000

Well, in BC pallies couldn’t really count holy shock as a heal spell either. The range was too short (20 ft) and the effect/cost ratio was too high. BC = flash of light ;-)
WotLK did amazing things for pallies more than just the addition of beacon of light. A lot of the way healing worked changed making holy shock and holy light much more viable than strictly occasional use. ^.^

Comment on Shamans, the Ancestral Guides by Nomasun

Nomasun — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:15:42 +0000

sorry, I should have been more specific in saying the availability of instant chain heals, as instant heals are readily available to a raid usually, but instant cast raid healing is not.

Comment on Shamans, the Ancestral Guides by Nomasun

Nomasun — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:14:38 +0000

Another talent enhancement shaman bring to a raid is Maelstrom, a 20% haste that stacks 5 times to provide instant cast heals or lightning spells. The value in this is the near constant availability of instant heals and helps alot on things like KT’s iceblock or Kologarn’s arm grip.

Comment on Addicted by SergeyNikolaev

SergeyNikolaev — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:35:29 +0000

Very interesting site. Hope it will always be alive!

Comment on Addicted by MishaPowerauto

MishaPowerauto — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:34:00 +0000

i found you by link from the Directory Listing Script from Ash.. Nice to read your blog ^.^
http://www.completelyelemental.com – cool!!!!

Comment on Shamans, the Ancestral Guides by Rakhman

Rakhman — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:34:16 +0000

Enhancement Shamans also buff melee with Unleashed Rage which provides 10% attack power buff to raid members within 45 yards. It doesn't stack with Hunter's Trueshot Aura or DKs Abomination's Might. I had a 95% uptime on UR during the last raid I did.

Comment on Something Light by Rae

Rae — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:48:07 +0000

@MB

Yeah, that’s what I’ve heard too. We had three holy priests going into Naxx 25, and then one of them was brave enough to dabble with Disc for a couple of weeks and ended up liking it a lot. Since then she’s been our raiding Disc priest :) She’s pretty good at it.

I think Blizzard makes encounters on purpose to favor certain classes over others so that you always make sure to have a variety of classes in your raid. The priest bubble was about the only thing you could use on Phase 1 of Reliquary in BT and is amazing for the General Vezax fight because you can benefit from the reduced mana cost of the shadow crashes without your bubble losing any measure of potency. The priest class certainly has a lot of variety to it; I look forward to getting to explore that eventually :)

Comment on Something Light by Rae

Rae — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:43:10 +0000

@Tamarind

Yeah I kind of feel the same way. At first I used to say there’s got to be some reason the spell is in the game, but after analyzing the stats on them like I provided in the post, it just didn’t add up. Heh. I guess someday blizzard will either give us a good reason or do some housekeeping :P

Comment on Something Light by MB

MB — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:20:24 +0000

Discipline priests are the one of the most exciting healing classes out there simply because their mechanics are so different than the other specs/classes. A Disc priest’s focus is not on recovering damage done, but rather to help avoid or mitigate damage in the first place. Add in their ability to passively bubble others while just healing and the awesomeness that is Penance, you have a healer that is exceptional in a raid.

In fact, from my experiences, you can almost always tell when you have a Disc priest along because the fights become easier for tanks, DPS, and healers. The bubbles going up and down all over the place take getting used to, but as a healer you can see that when raid damage hits those shields make the job of recovery a heck of a lot easier.

They also make damn good tank healers since they can shield, bubble, and penance their way to keeping the tank up. The only fight I ever saw where the Disc priest just didn’t have the healing chops was on Patchwerk, but that was due to the fight mechanics not the spec itself.

The only two downsides I’ve heard from my guildmates who are Disc specced is that they lack the mana and big heal ability to carry large burst damage fights. They are excellent for moderately short fights with a consistent amount of damage, but for gimmick fights with a lot of burst damage they do fall short.

Comment on Something Light by Tamarind

Tamarind — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:45:09 +0000

With reference to heal and lesser heal … I scratched my head over them for a long while and then decided they were “filler” spells – you get lesser heal before you get flash heal and heal before you get greater heal. They’re basically for levelling I think. Once you have FH and GH you can just wave goodbye to lesser healer and heal, banish them to outer darkness and never think of them again.

At least, that’s what I did.

Here’s hoping they’re not a vital part of a rotation that I’m totally missing :)