Save Players with Aggressive Shielding

I have a confession to make. I’m an aggressive Priest. Like really aggressive. I’ll shield extra targets as much as I can. I’ll squeeze in extra DPS if I see the opening. The current train of thought for Disc Priests is to stick to 1 or 2 targets. They’re tanks. Make sure they stay alive …

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Which Came First? The Aegis or the Shield?

On my daily patrol through the Plus Heal forums, I came across this thread with one very important question by Sundotz. If I proc Divine Aegis ( for 12 sec) and then apply PW: S (15 sec after absorbed), which shield is absorbing damage first? I could have commissioned a study on this with the …

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Abusing General Vezax as Discipline

The Conquest strike team reached General V on Monday evening. In the final hour remaining in our raid night, we spent most of the time identifying the environmental elements of the fight. What did the Saronite Vapors look like? What’s Shadow Crash? How do we deal with Mark of the Faceless? More importantly for healers, …

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Holy and Disc Too Costly for Dual Spec

At least, those are the conclusions I’ve reached when I tried it. On Monday night, the Conquest raiding crew was getting hammered by Kologarn. We simply could not heal raid damage of that magnitude. Some assignments were changed around and I activated my dual spec to Holy to see if I could help alleviate some …

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