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Are you getting this from logs of fights with ticking damage, where the average absorb would be calculated from multiple hits against a single shield? I'm still seeing shields of approximately 115K.

From our raid yesterday evening:
still hitting and now critting for the expected amount.

Is there any consensus on the stats situation? I've been running with approximately 6k mastery for 3k crit. More or less basing this on what I could understand from Havoc's and Szeretlek's and others posts.
Could there be some sort of layman's explanation for us people who can't fathom the maths please?

Is there a specific point where the 3035 haste breakpoint becomes really viable? Or is it something to aim for as soon as possible with no thought to other stats or gear level?

If I'm not too mistaken the gain is 9k mana per 3minutes so 250mp5? Add +15% on one shadowfiend with HoH, so say between 250mp5 and 270mp5 for a 7-9min fight depending on good HoH usage. This might be wrong, but it seems like a low gain versus a high cost in a stat that's not that interesting otherwise.

I think it comes with gear. When you can easy afford to spend 3k to haste (from 25k summary stats) - do it.

To clarify:
you have 0 haste and melee buff:
SF - 9 attacks
SF+Bers - 11 attacks

966 haste and melee buff:
SF - 10 attacks
SF+Bers - 11 attacks

3035 haste and melee buff:
SF - 10 attack
SF+Bers - 12 attacks

3035 haste and bers gives you 2 additional attacks or 500 mp5
So it really gives you that haste w/o too much burden (additional mana consumption). "Free" haste?

Some thoughts, Ill add more later once i have a look at the heroic mechanics.

a. Last Stand of the Zandalari

1. Jin'rokh the Breaker - "Fluidity" increases healing by 60% and damage by 40%, atonement likely (I have not personally tested it) double dips in the buff, yielding 124% buff to atonement healing. Spirit shell will likely be used before "lightning storm" at which time the raid will probably be stacked under the boss for an easy barrier.
2. Horridon - "Cracked shell" increases damage taken on the boss by 50% per stack, up to 4 stacks making atonement very attractive again. Pain suppression might be best saved for when tanks have high stacks of "triple puncture" and also for the last phase when the boss "rampages".
3. Council of Elders -

b. Forgotten Depths

4. Tortos - Spirit shell before "quake stomps" which deal 30% of max health as damage and are followed by frequent "rock falls"
5. Megaera -
6. Ji-Kun -

c. Halls of Flesh-Shaping

7. Durumu the Forgotten -
8. Primordius -
9. Dark Animus -

d. Pinnacle of Storms

10. Iron Qon -
11. Twin Consorts -
12. Lei Shen -
13. Ra-den -

So is it only getting bonus damage and no extra healing? Why would it be doing less healing than damage? Perhaps you were healing a tank who was not standing in the water? Shouldn't your mastery make all atonement healing higher than its damage?


I just had a look at a random log for jinrohk with a disc priest and saw 98k penances followed by 166k atonements. Could you double check your log to confirm?

Healing done - 13-03 22:42 - After Hours - World of Logs

I don't have too many casts because what happened here is I forgot to switch out my farming gear, which is just intellect, crit and haste, so I run oom really really fast. Also you can't see the fluidity buff, but you can guess from the penance damage.

Expression Editor - 13-03 22:42 - After Hours - World of Logs

There are some examples where the healing is much larger than the penance damage without archangel

e.g.

[23:03:55.912] Shaarra casts Penance
[23:03:56.345] Shaarra Penance Jin'rokh the Breaker 102255
[23:03:56.756] Shaarra casts Penance
[23:03:56.823] Shaarra Atonement Devilsface +85745
[23:03:57.300] Shaarra Penance Jin'rokh the Breaker 106482
[23:03:57.989] Shaarra Atonement Devilsface +89288
[23:04:04.973] Shaarra casts Penance
[23:04:05.767] Shaarra casts Penance
[23:04:05.944] Shaarra Penance Jin'rokh the Breaker 110206
[23:04:06.468] Shaarra Atonement Bilanx +181126
[23:04:06.670] Shaarra Penance Jin'rokh the Breaker 114252
[23:04:06.670] Shaarra casts Penance
[23:04:07.076] Shaarra Penance Jin'rokh the Breaker 106870
[23:04:07.275] Shaarra Atonement Devilsface +187389 (O: 387)
[23:04:07.679] Shaarra Atonement Beast +70336 (O: 19278)
[23:04:16.553] Shaarra casts Penance
[23:04:16.886] Shaarra Penance Jin'rokh the Breaker 110604
[23:04:17.342] Shaarra Atonement Devilsface +146333

The numbers seem strangely inconsistent. I don't see proper scaling with mastery and the buff anywhere. 110*1.12*1.6 = 197.12k, which is larger than what I get. Also it looks really that I get fairly different heal values from the same damage value. Something seems bugged here.

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PWS weaving with instants and casts is actually very attractive and very sustainable. I gave it a good try and maegera and durumu, where you actually get to heal short duration aoe phases and I did quite well.

Healing done - 14-03 22:55 - After Hours - World of Logs

Rank 7 on normal currently (was 5 last night) with 502 ilvl and without the t14 4set bonus.

I generally cast PWS then whatever instants I have available atm followed by a PoH or BH cast. I cast pretty much every spell under borrowed time. This works really well because PWS has minuscule overheal, while PoH and BH are at about 30%.

This is suprisingly sustainable, as soon as you hit 14k spirit, because between penance and instants and the long PoH cast you end up casting just 3 PWS or so per rapture period.

Yeah there's definitely something wrong. While reading on the forums, I found someone dealing with an issue where their atonement were never higher than around 100k, even when the damage was over 100k. Another player posted that there was a stealth nerf limiting atonement healing to a maximum of 1.5 times the damage. They did not provide any evidence to support that claim. I think they broke something when they took resilience out of the equation for healing and added in mastery.

Just remembered: "The heal from Atonement is now capped at 30% of the priest's health before any modifiers such as healing percentage bonus effects/talents." Was changed back in cata after Halfus.