The Angry Healers!- Letting You Die of Your Stupid Since 2009

*points at Pyo, who points at Bubbles, who points at…etc*

• What is the name, class, and spec of your primary healer?
  Kivuli, Troll Priest, Disc/Holy
  

• What is your primary group healing environment? (i.e. raids, pvp, 5 mans)
  10 man raids, though most of my experience is in 25s.
  

• What is your favorite healing spell for your class and why?
  Hmmm.  My opinion of other spells has increased lately, but no matter what Penance still wins.  There’s just no end to how satisfying an instant channeled uber-heal is.

• What healing spell do you use least for your class and why?
  Binding Heal.  I know some people love it, but it always feels like my brain has to make an extra step to see “Person X needs healing, I need healing too, I will hit this different keybinding.”
  

• What do you feel is the biggest strength of your healing class and why?
  Padding, mostly via absorbs.  The time has passed where a disc priest could casually raid heal (PoH nerf, penance nerf) and tank healing has become a bit tougher too.  We don’t have the catch up ability or heal bombs (even a penance, if it doesn’t crit, is tiny and weak) to stand around and play Holy Pally, and we don’t have the tools or mana efficiency to keep a raid topped off (which is almost a joke to say considering how mana efficient we are in the right circumstances).  What we CAN do very well, though, is keep dire situations from occuring.  One of my favorite things to do is, when I know my mana is okay, spam PoH on the raid.  My crit is high enough that I’ll get a lot of bubbles out.  Spam PW:S on top of that, and the raid is very well protected.  I get nervous whenever I’m Holy because I see tanks take bigger hits than I’m used to, I see raid members fall below 50% constantly, etc.  Disc priests are a great insurance policy.
  

• What do you feel is the biggest weakness of your healing class and why?
  Because of this in-between kind of support function described above, disc priests often just don’t have the HPS to get through heavy fights.  We also have very poor talents for boosting our raw healing, which makes scaling very…interesting.
  

• In a 25 man raiding environment, what do you feel, in general, is the best healing assignment for you?
  Tank healing.
  

• What healing class do you enjoy healing with most and why?
  For 10s, like my current situation, definitely Resto shamans.  Love the totems, love their punchy heals.  They are easy to supplement with shields and extra PoH, and ES adds to my preventative tank-healing style.
  

• What healing class do you enjoy healing with least and why?
  Other disc priests.  I don’t even want to go into it.
  

• What is your worst habit as a healer?
  Seeing that the tank is okay and spending too much time putting shields on the raid, only to have to freak out and spam the tank.
  

• What is your biggest pet peeve in a group environment while healing?
  Seeing myself pass other healers on the meters, or (often related) having to raid heal while tank healing because someone’s too slow.
  

• Do you feel that your class/spec is well balanced with other healers for PvE healing?
  I think we’re a little underpowered, but our niche right now is like, the ultimate support healer.
  

• What tools do you use to evaluate your own performance as a healer?
  Back when I did 25s I would scour World of Logs for various uptimes (DA, Renewed Hope, etc), compare my tank’s damage taken to a tank I wasn’t on, compare what did the most healing on various fights.  Nowadays, recount usually tells me that PoM is my top heal, which I always think is funny.
  

• What do you think is the biggest misconception people have about your healing class?
  People STILL don’t understand that A. disc priests will not look good on meters, and B. disc priests don’t stack.
  

• What do you feel is the most difficult thing for new healers of your class to learn?
  Overheal.  Prepare.  Cast PoM constantly.  Penance is our only real reactive heal, I even treat Flash Heal as a spammy “top off and then stack DA” heal.
  

• If someone were to try to evaluate your performance as a healer via recount, what sort of patterns would they see (i.e. lots of overhealing, low healing output, etc)?
  Low healing (usually), low overheals, PoM, Penance and Glyph of PW:S as my usual top heals, a surprisingly large percentage of my heals being on the raid because of PoM bouncing.
  

• Haste or Crit and why?
  Both.  I need crit, but I have enough to be hitting DR like whoa, so I’m staring haste down in the face now.  It’s tough, I can never get enough.  I got down to 1.2 sec flash heals though…
  

• What healing class do you feel you understand least?
  Pallies and Druids.  I just don’t know enough about how they do it.
  

• What add-ons or macros do you use, if any, to aid you in healing?
  Just Power Auras.
  

• Do you strive primarily for balance between your healing stats, or do you stack some much higher than others, and why?
  I admit I am an Int whore through and through.  Int and Spellpower, though like I mentioned above I’m trying to focus on haste now too.