Infraction for Nuke: 2. All opinions should be stated as succinctly as possible.

• Aldriana · 09/05/09, 10:07 PM

Post: Discipline Healing Compendium v3.1
User: Nuke
Infraction: 2. All opinions should be stated as succinctly as possible.
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Originally Posted by Squeakster

Secondly, a 1 second or close to 1 second Flash Heal? A 1 second Flash Heal requires an equivalent of 1640 haste rating. Sure some of that is reduced by raid buffs and Enlightenment, but a 1 second GCD is not realistic right now unless you count BT haste.

We're probably playing different games. I am having around 350 haste from gear and my FH is about 1.21, so not really far from destination point.

Also, the single target throughput a Discipline Priest can put out is certainly not higher than a Holy Paladin, it's not even close.

No one ever argued that DP can replace HP, its just it brings synergy to MT healing, coupled with paladin.

Holy Light is a good 9k-10k HPS, even ignoring Beacon and the glyph heals.

Its sort of "out-of-nowhere" calculations based on idealistic environment where everything works for you.

Improved Flash Heal is definitely a nice talent, I wont argue with that. But that talent + the glyph certainly does not make it "nearly a free spell," it is still 521 mana. You mention healing and mitigation, what you are getting at is effective HPS (healing and shielding included). And like Elimbras just posted, Flash Heal is significantly lower HPS than Greater Heal when Divine Fury is included - more than 1000 HPS lower. If you also have Improved Healing, Flash Heal is also lower HPM (although it is very close). See the math below.

At 2800 SP, 30% crit and 25% haste, assuming 5/5 Divine Fury and 3/3 Improved Healing:

Flash Heal
(2040 + .81(2800))*1.04*1.09 = 4884
4884*.7 + 4884*.3*1.95 = 6276 average healing including criticals
6276/521mana = 12.0 HPM
6276/1.20seconds = 5230 HPS

Greater Heal
(4270 + 1.61(2800))*1.04*1.09 = 9951
9951*.7 + 9951*.3*1.95 = 12787
12787/1050mana = 12.2 HPM
12787/2.00seconds = 6394 HPS

Holy Light (with 50% crit and [Glyph of Seal of Wisdom])
(5166 + 1.66(2800))*1.05*1.12 = 11541
11541*0.5 + 11541*1.5*0.5 = 14427
14427/1210 mana = 11.9 HPM - before Illumination
14427/1.5 = 9618 HPS

I can't even remotely understand how could you get 1.2s FH cast-time with 25% haste (which is solely horrible to have as a discipline priest, combined with horribly low crit-rating).

Not looking on this heresy, you can safely overlook the talents and see that FH is also getting buffed from Grace and gets additional crit from improved FH.
Bonuses of FH/Penance healing tactic is that you're constantly producing high HPS and keeping the aegis uptime on tank. With long casts of GH you will not only be getting oom quite fast, you will also have lesser overall efficency due to high cast time and higher overhealing.