Thanks very much =) I immediatly started leveling and gearing my hunter in cataclysm and my little priest is still level 80 so I literally have no idea how best to play a priest anymore this will really help when I find the time to level her
Just re visited my priest from a while ago and decided to try out holy, this guide helped a shit load, and it's now by far my favourite healing toon. Cheers!
As a former Spriest who made the decision to switch to healing full-time, your advice is golden. I appreciate the time you took to make this vid, and thank you for it.
Thanks for the information! I was unable to play for the first month and a half of Cataclysm launch and just recently began able to play last week. This helped me catch up everything I missed out on about priests!
@RFXCGZZ This was made after Cata released - at which point it was a terrible, terrible spell. They about halfed the mana cost and buffed it since, so now it is usable again (as the annotation says).
Thanks for this video, Aliena. I've been a disc priest so long I wasn't really "up to speed" on the holy priests at this point, and this will help a lot. I hadn't even done the math yet, which is somewhat embarassing... Since we're doing more and more 25-man-raids atm, I've been asked to go holy several times, but I just couldn't seem to "get going" the same way I could with disc - and this video made me realize why :P
I was soooo hoping you would make an updated Priest guide. The ones you made on Holy & Disc in Wrath really, really helped me out a lot when I started raiding with my priest. Obviously someone in your position is very kind to publish ANY guide (which I'm sure we are all thankful for) but..... if you make another Disc priest guide I'll totally buy you a puppy! :P ...probably ...well, maybe.... ok probably not but you'll never know if you don't make one! Oh, and thank you very much (of course)
@MrLuzifor It's not a 'soft cap'. It gives renew an additional tick. I don't use Renew much at all. I don't have mana issues. I gem for mastery, I gear for mastery and haste. Additional haste is always more throughput, a soft cap is tiers away. It's a rough attainable guideline for the first tier, but more is never gonna hurt. :)
Holy priest is just amazing. Like you said, no other class has some of the skills a holy priest has. Prayer of Healing can be compared to Wild Growth, except Wild Growth is a Hot and PoH is a direct heal.
i didnt watch any of this, i simply minused it and listened to you for 24 minutes, i dont even play wow..ur voice is just soothing haha, its like listening to water
OMG @Aliena85 an amazing guide =D After watching this and sorting myself out Healing on my Priest is amazing and i never run low on mana or die cause of my lack of healing =D You are a Priest Godess hun
Thank you for this extremely useful guide! You make it so easy to understand and get everything under control, I love it! Finally I might find priest fun to play again. Keep up the good work and I can't wait until your next clip! :-)
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@guitar20063 pause at 13:30 for the current tree :) She might have updated it though, and I find that blessed resilience is good for pvp-like situations, but not for raids... it is not beneficial in raids I find, although I might be wrong.
nice job, help alot, thanks. I sort of missed the high paced healing of wrath though. I know renew spam got boring for some but for some reason I always liked it. Atleast crazy saves with LoF , Lightwell being awsome, and the cool new holy words made up for it.
Thanks Mandy for the Holy Priest guide. Are you planning on a Disc Priest guide sometime? I ask this because I do enjoy playing Disc priest for healing, certainly Holy is the best for raiding.
Thank you so much for making this video, it helped a lot starting out as a Holy Priest :) You're really good at it too! :D Can't wait to see a Disc guide as well =D Keep up the good work :) Your fan, Max
i'm curious if it would be possible to have your other healers do a similar guide for how they heal? I think it would be interesting to see :) IE shaman, paladin, druid overview.
I find it interesting how i play my priest completely different to you and look for different stats but it still seems viable. I use inner will, stack spirit/mastery followed by haste and int if i they are my only options. I generally use all my spells in raids but throw in a lot of renews and flash heal rather then greater heals. Im just hoping this strategy will be as viable for 25mans as it is for 10mans as i am yet to try 25man.
@Saonserey Hey i wanted to know your views on Chakra since it came out. What do you think of it when pre cata came out and now and in 4.1 i mean they changed it so much. I prefered it when it was 30/30 with original state of mind but i think they should of combined the 1min duration but kept state of mind the same. I like the idea of it being forever (with the stance) but it doesn't have that Holy priest feeling anymore.
@Saonserey How do you feel about the incoming changes to the healing classes in respect to the balance? And What would you say in the most usable situation for r-druids, 10/25 raid/tank etc..?
Thanks for nice guide Aliena! Anyway i got a question, why do you take 3 points in Darkness (tier 1 shadow) when the "soft cap" on hast is 12,5% - atm you got 7,55% and haste in your spec, + 3% from talents = 10,55% + 5% faste from totem or boomkin in a raid?
@Debil7496 Can you keep everyone alive using only Renew? Also, of course its harder to go OOM when you get better gear and stuff, as all spells have fixed mana costs instead of scaling with total mana pool.
Awesome guide... Do have one question though, so I have been using Heal Chakra state for 10 man raids and it seems to work alright, but what should I be using in the 25 man raids? I usually am assigned to healing a tank
if I have lackluster trinkets that I seem to be unable to get rid of (under 333) would it be worth my time to dedicate myself to the archaeology trinket?
I think I'm going to concentrate on my priest, my main is a holy pally right now. But Blizzard is nerfing us so bad that I just stay annoyed with it. Tank heals is my main role in the raids, so I believe a Disc priest could do as well as a Holy pally. Any thoughts, suggestions, etc are appreciated.
I just really wonder.. How did you get your Pitbull 4.0 bars to look like they do? I mean which settings did you apply. Or if anybody else know what she did, that would be great! :-)
Great video :D is going to really help on my holy priest once I start running 5-man's and getting gear. thanks for helping to restore faith in healing for me (no pun intended) :)
im glad all i do is tank. this just blows my mind and i give a lot more respect to healers. i have a macro i have been useing since vanillia for 5mans "we go healers pace dont like it theres the door!"
I watched your guides exclusively when playing wotlk and cats. I'm about to start playing again and kind of sad that I won't get to see you playing current content. Ill miss your videos.
@ty0052 if there ur buddies im sure if u xplain to em the importance of cliking on th dam well an how itz cuz there not helpin u the reason y ur wiping theyll come around. if not then ur SoL might as well switch ur main to a raid guild.
this was my favorite guide for my favorite class back in original Cata, and now it feels so great to be able to come back to it for Classic
Aliena, Lore, Darksend, Ciderhelm, and the whole team over at Tankspot, were incredible for the WoW Community. These truly were the glory days.
I miss the TankSpot team 😢
13 years later and here I am wishing we had this style of healing :(
FIX THE FUCKING GAME!
Thanks very much =) I immediatly started leveling and gearing my hunter in cataclysm and my little priest is still level 80 so I literally have no idea how best to play a priest anymore this will really help when I find the time to level her
Just re visited my priest from a while ago and decided to try out holy, this guide helped a shit load, and it's now by far my favourite healing toon. Cheers!
As a former Spriest who made the decision to switch to healing full-time, your advice is golden. I appreciate the time you took to make this vid, and thank you for it.
These guides are what I loved about tankspot. Please make more class spec guides!
@ExiitNsX Penance is in the discipline tree, you must select discipline as your default talent tree in order to have penance.
Thanks for the information! I was unable to play for the first month and a half of Cataclysm launch and just recently began able to play last week. This helped me catch up everything I missed out on about priests!
@MrLuzifor Haste isn't added up like you said, it is actually multiplied (7.55% * 1.03 * 1.05 = 16.315% haste)
I switched my priest talents from Discipline to Holy because of this video. Just a really well done video Aliena, thanks...
@RFXCGZZ This was made after Cata released - at which point it was a terrible, terrible spell. They about halfed the mana cost and buffed it since, so now it is usable again (as the annotation says).
This guide is still VERY useful today. Thank you so much for the indepth, I hope to see another someday soon.
Thanks for this video, Aliena. I've been a disc priest so long I wasn't really "up to speed" on the holy priests at this point, and this will help a lot. I hadn't even done the math yet, which is somewhat embarassing...
Since we're doing more and more 25-man-raids atm, I've been asked to go holy several times, but I just couldn't seem to "get going" the same way I could with disc - and this video made me realize why :P
I was soooo hoping you would make an updated Priest guide. The ones you made on Holy & Disc in Wrath really, really helped me out a lot when I started raiding with my priest.
Obviously someone in your position is very kind to publish ANY guide (which I'm sure we are all thankful for) but..... if you make another Disc priest guide I'll totally buy you a puppy! :P ...probably ...well, maybe.... ok probably not but you'll never know if you don't make one!
Oh, and thank you very much (of course)
@MrLuzifor It's not a 'soft cap'. It gives renew an additional tick. I don't use Renew much at all. I don't have mana issues. I gem for mastery, I gear for mastery and haste. Additional haste is always more throughput, a soft cap is tiers away.
It's a rough attainable guideline for the first tier, but more is never gonna hurt. :)
Holy priest is just amazing. Like you said, no other class has some of the skills a holy priest has. Prayer of Healing can be compared to Wild Growth, except Wild Growth is a Hot and PoH is a direct heal.
i didnt watch any of this, i simply minused it and listened to you for 24 minutes, i dont even play wow..ur voice is just soothing haha, its like listening to water
OMG @Aliena85 an amazing guide =D After watching this and sorting myself out Healing on my Priest is amazing and i never run low on mana or die cause of my lack of healing =D You are a Priest Godess hun
@Ravger94 It is Darkshore. You can see that whirlpool in the background
Best guide I've seen in a long while, keep it up! =)
I like how you subtily showed off every rare pet you have.
Thank you for this extremely useful guide! You make it so easy to understand and get everything under control, I love it! Finally I might find priest fun to play again. Keep up the good work and I can't wait until your next clip! :-)
@Toffypops I think ads that you are seeing on youtube site are related to the currently logged user, based on other affiliate networks that recognize you. Cheers.
you have one of the best WoW videos in youtube!
@guitar20063 pause at 13:30 for the current tree :) She might have updated it though, and I find that blessed resilience is good for pvp-like situations, but not for raids... it is not beneficial in raids I find, although I might be wrong.
Great Guide but slightly outdated. Would absolutely LOVE an updated Cata Classic Holy Priest guide!
@Toffypops My personal channel is not in any way related to tankspot, and I have no influence on the ads nor can I control which ones play.
nice job, help alot, thanks.
I sort of missed the high paced healing of wrath though. I know renew spam got boring for some but for some reason I always liked it. Atleast crazy saves with LoF , Lightwell being awsome, and the cool new holy words made up for it.
Tip for fights like Atramedes, if you use Inner Will and run around shielding people with AoE chakra renews, it makes it a breeze.
I do enjoy holy priest healing, though I am getting sick of BRD again. Thanks for putting the guide together!
Great video , great explanation , great audio, won another writing. Congratulations (y )
Thanks Mandy for the Holy Priest guide. Are you planning on a Disc Priest guide sometime? I ask this because I do enjoy playing Disc priest for healing, certainly Holy is the best for raiding.
Yay. Yay. Yay.
Thanks for putting this up, this was EXACTLY what I was looking for.
Beautiful and calm voice
aleina you are freaking awesome i love ur guides and other things and could you make an updated guide for 4.2 for holy preists please
Thank you so much for making this video, it helped a lot starting out as a Holy Priest :) You're really good at it too! :D Can't wait to see a Disc guide as well =D Keep up the good work :) Your fan, Max
@Debil7496 She made this video before Renew got buffed, it has since gotten better healing and way lower mana costs.
@noodwow Yes, really, these are commonly used.
Where are you these days? You're still missed!
@IAMDISAPP0INT Huh? My reply to you was about the pronunciation of 'Chakra', no what I presume was a comment on Desperate Prayer.
i'm curious if it would be possible to have your other healers do a similar guide for how they heal? I think it would be interesting to see :) IE shaman, paladin, druid overview.
I find it interesting how i play my priest completely different to you and look for different stats but it still seems viable. I use inner will, stack spirit/mastery followed by haste and int if i they are my only options. I generally use all my spells in raids but throw in a lot of renews and flash heal rather then greater heals. Im just hoping this strategy will be as viable for 25mans as it is for 10mans as i am yet to try 25man.
Been waiting for this one! Great guide Mandy, thanks a lot ;)
I just started playing WoW and this is exactly what I was looking for! Very nice guide, thanks. (:
@Atheist269 Its called Energized elementium Geod...its a rare drop from mining elementium veins otherwise AH lolz
@Saonserey Hey i wanted to know your views on Chakra since it came out. What do you think of it when pre cata came out and now and in 4.1 i mean they changed it so much. I prefered it when it was 30/30 with original state of mind but i think they should of combined the 1min duration but kept state of mind the same. I like the idea of it being forever (with the stance) but it doesn't have that Holy priest feeling anymore.
@noodwow that's the point. Go roll an arcane mage if you only wanna use a couple spells.
@Saonserey How do you feel about the incoming changes to the healing classes in respect to the balance? And What would you say in the most usable situation for r-druids, 10/25 raid/tank etc..?
I want outakes on this! Noone can talk this long and not screw up. Good job and great guide! ;)
Thanks for nice guide Aliena! Anyway i got a question, why do you take 3 points in Darkness (tier 1 shadow) when the "soft cap" on hast is 12,5% - atm you got 7,55% and haste in your spec, + 3% from talents = 10,55% + 5% faste from totem or boomkin in a raid?
@Debil7496 Can you keep everyone alive using only Renew? Also, of course its harder to go OOM when you get better gear and stuff, as all spells have fixed mana costs instead of scaling with total mana pool.
@Saonserey Please, would you tell me the name of that UI you use? Not in the raids, but when showing us the different spells/abilities? :)
Awesome guide... Do have one question though, so I have been using Heal Chakra state for 10 man raids and it seems to work alright, but what should I be using in the 25 man raids? I usually am assigned to healing a tank
I'm currently leveling a disc priest. Will you be making a Cata Disc Priest Guide as well?
if I have lackluster trinkets that I seem to be unable to get rid of (under 333) would it be worth my time to dedicate myself to the archaeology trinket?
I think I'm going to concentrate on my priest, my main is a holy pally right now. But Blizzard is nerfing us so bad that I just stay annoyed with it. Tank heals is my main role in the raids, so I believe a Disc priest could do as well as a Holy pally. Any thoughts, suggestions, etc are appreciated.
I never knew priest healing was so complex
I wasn't sure if you knew that your "Binding Heal" clip was not shown and it's blacked out.
Can u make a guide on Disc priest, maybe shadow as well?
Is blessed resilience worth taking in the holy tree.
im a ret pally with great gear, skill, etc you should totally convince lore to do a guide just cause i wanna see him do one :P
Will you be doing a Disc guide too? I would love to see that as I never really found Holy much fun.
I just really wonder.. How did you get your Pitbull 4.0 bars to look like they do? I mean which settings did you apply. Or if anybody else know what she did, that would be great! :-)
@grand1245 thanks so much woot i'm absolutely getting one of those. how much do they cost usually?
I liked the part where there's a pally in your guild/friends list named "what"
what a awesome guide!!! i really have to go with my priest now!!!
Is blessed resilience worth taking in the holy tree. What does your spec currently look like?
Is healing bot good for raids? i haven't used it and I've just reached the level were i can do them
thank you, this really helped
Thanks for doing this, albeit a bit dated now.
I might get brave and branch out from Disc and expand my priestly horizons :D
Could you add addons that you suggest, i'm trying to find a good UI, currently using Tukui but its not that great for raids AT ALL
Great video :D is going to really help on my holy priest once I start running 5-man's and getting gear. thanks for helping to restore faith in healing for me (no pun intended) :)
@Saonserey do you know where i can find a good shaman healing guide?
Thanks for posting this, it was really well made and made me want to get my priest up to speed (:
@Saonserey Even if they're Lightwell macros? :(
Some people still won't click it damnit!
what addons are you using in terms of the party and raid bars and casting bar?
A fun thing to do with that pet you have, is to join Stonecore and get it out on the first boss, watch everyone run away from you.
So what happened to tankspot and the gorgeous Aliena?
Im thinking of making a healing class. Any advice on what class and race i should choose(HORDE)
@TheSaiyanKing The more you know about your healers , the better of a player you can be ( be you dps or tank)
THIS IS AWESOME! Where was this when Cata first came out and my priest was always OOM and I had no idea why. LOL LOL
Very usefull video. I made my holy priest just 2 days ago :D. Thank you for the guide.
@TheSaiyanKing Yea I'm Prot/Holy Pally, I've never played a Priest and yet I watched it....
You rock Aliena. Here, have a cookie for all the effort and editing. :) *hands a chocolate cookie*
evening aleina, could u please tell me wich spec would be better for healing a zandalari ? would that be disc or holy.
im glad all i do is tank. this just blows my mind and i give a lot more respect to healers. i have a macro i have been useing since vanillia for 5mans "we go healers pace dont like it theres the door!"
will you do a disp guide?
Can you do a video on your interface?
I would love to see a guide for MoP aswell :) Great job!
I watched your guides exclusively when playing wotlk and cats. I'm about to start playing again and kind of sad that I won't get to see you playing current content. Ill miss your videos.
What is that spell/talent called, who looks like efflorescence just white?
What do you reccomend to heal whit in 10 man raiding tanks then dicipline?
Love what u did with the unit frames(:
Hey do you think you could tell me what addons you use please? Thank youu :)
At 16:12 how did you get "what" to be pink?
what is that addon with the group members hp pls respond to this i need to know! :)
@ty0052 if there ur buddies im sure if u xplain to em the importance of cliking on th dam well an how itz cuz there not helpin u the reason y ur wiping theyll come around. if not then ur SoL might as well switch ur main to a raid guild.
what is the addon on the screen you see icons ?
How come you aint doin Vlogs any more.?
Hmm, ive always used Inner will instead of Inner fire, because im scared of my mana loss.