Priest Simple Questions/Simple Answers: Cataclysm - Page 2

Kashir · 12/16/10, 6:54 PM

Do Focused Will and Blessed Resillence activate upon AOE damage, or does it have to be a direct hit or spell?

flo-joe86 · 12/17/10, 8:35 AM

I have a question to mana regenaration. Rosin posted the calculation formula in the sticky priest threads.

Originally Posted by Rosin

Spirit
Spirit increases your Spirit Regen according to the following formula:
Spirit Regen = Sqrt(Intellect) * Spirit *.016725

when I use his stat excample for the calculation (4816 Int, 2774 Spirit) I should get 3220 Mana Regen.
But when you look into his result, you will see 4328,2 MP5 instead of 3220 MP5.
Did I forget something important?

rooj · 12/17/10, 11:50 AM

Do Atonement heals proc Divine Aegis? I.E. if you crit with your Smite, does it also give DA to the heal target? My suspicion is that it doesn't but i haven't seen anything definitive with it.

Viper45 · 12/17/10, 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by flo-joe86

I have a question to mana regenaration. Rosin posted the calculation formula in the sticky priest threads.

when I use his stat excample for the calculation (4816 Int, 2774 Spirit) I should get 3220 Mana Regen.
But when you look into his result, you will see 4328,2 MP5 instead of 3220 MP5.
Did I forget something important?

Check this post.

Originally Posted by rooj

Do Atonement heals proc Divine Aegis? I.E. if you crit with your Smite, does it also give DA to the heal target? My suspicion is that it doesn't but i haven't seen anything definitive with it.

It does. However, atonement heals do not benefit from +healing modifiers, such as grace or archangel.

Jonny_Monroe · 12/17/10, 1:53 PM

It does. However, atonement heals do not benefit from +healing modifiers, such as grace or archangel.

Last night I was tank healing blackrock descent, which regularly boiled down to atonement healing, and it was healing roughly 10% more than my smites were hitting for. I don't know what was causing this, I couldn't identify a culprit for it. Does anyone know of an ability that does this, and if it's a bug? If it helps, it was a death knight tank.

Raiek · 12/17/10, 6:52 PM

Had a question about staffs versus main hand + off-hand for healing. I've been comparing the stats on the two, and with the new +100 int enchant to off-hands, will there ever be a situation in which we would want a staff versus a mace and off-hand? Even when comparing an epic staff versus a blue i346 mace and off-hand, the stats still seem VERY close. The epic gets a bit more spellpower, but still has over 50 less intellect. Is there something about staffs that I'm missing?

Alv!ra · 12/18/10, 4:41 AM

Originally Posted by Jonny_Monroe

Last night I was tank healing blackrock descent, which regularly boiled down to atonement healing, and it was healing roughly 10% more than my smites were hitting for. I don't know what was causing this, I couldn't identify a culprit for it. Does anyone know of an ability that does this, and if it's a bug? If it helps, it was a death knight tank.

Most of the 5-man heroic farming I've done in cata has been healing my brothers DK tank, and I have never noticed any atonement increase on him.

Unless it was consistently healing for ~10% more, but maybe rather 25% in shorter intervals, I suspect it may be Vampiric Blood - Spell - World of Warcraft causing it - but I'll check that as soon as he comes online, and edit this post correspondingly.

Edit: I tested it on a dummy, with the DK using VB, and it didn't seem to have any effect. My atonement only healed for the exact amount my smites hit for, regardless of whether or not he had VB buff on. I'll run further tests on actual mobs later.

Charchar · 12/20/10, 11:59 AM

Hi first time poster I have a question that will improve healing my output by a fair bit.

Is there an addon that monitors PoM to help sustain a 100% uptime? So you dont have to maunally search your entire vuhdu grid for the icon.

TrlstanC · 12/20/10, 12:04 PM

Originally Posted by Charchar

Hi first time poster I have a question that will improve healing my output by a fair bit.

Is there an addon that monitors PoM to help sustain a 100% uptime? So you dont have to maunally search your entire vuhdu grid for the icon.

I use "PoM Tracker" it's on Curse, I believe it's out of date, but it still works fine for me. It does a good job of watching PoM, pretty much the only thing it doesn't do is let you know when the CD is up.

MADMark · 12/20/10, 12:31 PM

There are numerous tools to track when you can use an ability or not; I'm not sure why you would want one that only handles one spell. I don't want to speak for him, but I think he's looking for something which checks whether your PoM is still present on anybody in the raid or not. I'm not sure I see the value of that for most fights, I think you want to make sure its on a target that's actually likely to take damage, not some random raid member, but mana is of course an issue, depending on the damage profile of the fight.

james · 12/21/10, 4:41 AM

Enchants for chest include 15 Stats and 20 Stats. Does this enchant increase spirit too? Spirit is no longer increased by Motw/Kings so it may be considered to be a sort of "rating" stat now.

Elerion · 12/21/10, 7:28 AM

Just tested. Yes, it does increase spirit too.

Murkelsven · 12/22/10, 5:15 AM

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Charchar · 12/23/10, 3:29 PM

problem solved.

Mahtasooma · 12/24/10, 10:37 AM

Do the NH and HC versions of Tear of Blood share an inner CD?

Because having two of those seem to be best in slot for me, as you never know that you will be needing the spellpower / haste / crit / whatnot proc from other trinkets.

It IS, however, guaranteed that you will be making use of SPI procs, as additional mana will be sitting in your manapool until used.