Since the Compendium is mostly about specs, and theorycraft, I thought it might be nice to have a thread similar to Snowy's, where priests can talk about specific fights, and how they heal them. No theorycrafting allowed -- just questions, discussion, and analysis.

If you have a WWS/Stasis parse to go with your question, absolutely post it. Ideally, questions in this thread will not be simple enough to be answered in the Simple/Simple thread. If it's one line, put it there. If it's about a fight in 3.0 (Naxx/Sarth/Malygos), put it here. Be sure to explain what role you are asking about -- it's very different describing healing a tank vs raid on Sarth+3, for example. Also make sure you list what spec you are, so the responses can be tailored to your playstyle.

I'll start it off with a general Sarth+3 'discussion' (10-man). I was working on it this past week with a suboptimal group, and was healing the drake+add tank. The spike damage from dual shadow breaths + dual melee swings (2 drakes up) was absolutely brutal. Anyone have any suggestions for predicting that damage, or mitigating it? As most of you know, I raid as holy; GS-spec atm. We were running as HPaladin/HPriest for our 2 healers; drake tank was a warrior.

I was referring to healing the *drake* tank; healing the Sarth tank is an entirely different task. And yes, as you said, it's all about rotating cooldowns in that situation (and hoping your raid gets Shadron dead *fast*).

My one bit of advice as a healing priest from a raid fight that I wish I had known earlier- Even though Patchwerk 25 is a lot of tanks taking damage, it's really best to just single target heal on that fight (at least from my experience). I think what was hurting our raid early on is we were having some shammies chain heal and I was using COH if all the tanks were down a little. I think what this was doing though was bumping the Hateful tanks up just a tiny bit over the melee dpsers, but not topping them off before the Hateful strike came in.

When we changed our assignments around and just had shammies and priests solo-target heal, we 1 shot him.

Could start precasting GH and cancel cast pretty late so that if he doesn't need healing you don't waste mana. Also try keeping a PoM up and renew eventhough it's not the most efficient way it sure beats losing the tank. Also maybe try following up GH with a flash heal incase you canceled then the tank gets pummeled. You could always cancel that cast as well.

This has been my experience as well. The benefits of PoM aren't only the healing it does, but the increased uptime of inspiration between multiple tanks to mitigate damage.

Absolutely, and if you are Surge of Light spec'd keeping a SoL proc in the bag incase you get behind. Though after a couple weeks doing 25-man Naxx and your healers grabbing some loot, Patch becomes very easy.

Definitely our optimal spells for Patch are: PoM, then either GH or Flash depending on your setup.

Confirmed, Patch's HS is now whichever of #2 and #3 on threat have highest health. Consequently, if your third tank is a Fury warrior that's trying to use a 3.4spd 2H axe to build threat with, your melee are going to have to watch themselves.

Anyone confirmed what happens if a ranged person moves into #3 on threat? Curious if he'll run over and smack them, drop to the third person in melee range, or just hit OT1 again (and presumably kill them).

Ahem, anyway, Sarth+2 (Tene/Vesp), 25-man (as holy) - I was assigned to heal the DKs on whelp/blaze duty, but it seemed every other flame wave they (the blazes) would get enraged and start beating the snot out of the DKs - do we need another healer to help on the add tanks, better movement from the tanks, or something else? (we had a rogue with Anesthetic Poison keeping the blazes de-enraged as much as possible, but it seemed like if they got enraged it was 50/50 if the tanks would get spiked before I could do anything about it)

Running two healers is playing RNG if you ask me and you should expect some instagibs. You obviously don't have any choice if your DPS can't keep up with three healers, so here's a few tips from my experience running two healer setup.

1. Make sure that beacon doesn't fall off (work on tank positioning).
2. If you have a DK in the raid, use Devouring Plague and make sure he spread it on the whelps during first drake - you want all the DPS you can have and you should easily be able to regen the mana back. It will tick for 1k+ on all whelps.
3. Enter the critical phase with everything up and 100% mana, your paladin should be fine anyway. Then just GH > CoH > PoM, rinse and repeat, just spam it. The only way you can keep up is burning 200% of your mana pool in 45 seconds. Also Lightwell for DPS is golden and you should use early in the fight so you can have two when you need it. It doesn't matter really if your're oom after that anyway, you've won the fight. I suggest going really, really OOM a few times so you know your limits before conserving.
4. Threat will be a problem, only fight in the game I reccomend specing Silent Resolve.
5. Do not spec SoL, it's a HPS decrease and it's all about numbers there.
6. I didn't use much PoH, mainly because I wasn't in the tankgroup. If i was in the tankgroup I might consider it, but as you say ... you can't really take your eyes off the drake tank for a long time. With some haste a PoH will mean that you're off the drake tank for 2,5 + 2,0 seconds - which is too much.
7. Make sure your elemental tank consumes PoMs. He should be on the drake aswell for DPS and just pick them up. If your elemental tank is running around in the middle instead of staying on the drake, you will need to use a lot more time keeping him up.

The drake tank obviously needs to use every CD aswell to keep up, communicating SW or even make a plan for it can be very helpful. If you know your tank will use a 15 seconds SW (4p t7) when 3rd drake lands, it can save you a lot of work. Save LS for double breaths.

On our kill we used the same healer setup (holy priest + holy paladin - with elemental shaman helping out with healing the raid after Tenebron was killed - we simply couldnt kill him in time with 3 fulltime helaers) but we had the priest (me) healing Sartharion tank (unholy DK) and the paladin healing add tank (warrior) and drake tank (druid) in order to make full use of beacon. He didn't really have any difficulty keeping them up (and since healing Sartharion tank is a full-time job, especially when disciples are up, I couldn't help him with anything else but an occasinal PoM). Overall, this fight is definitely the most challenging stuff I have healed to date.

Wow that's really impressive that you managed to pull the healing off when you were on the Sarth tank. How did you manage to keep the DPS classes alive?

Edit: I'm stupid, you clearly stated that the elemental shaman kept them alive. Well done

Any tips for healing Sapphiron in a 10 man Naxxramas?

The group I've been going with understands the fight mechanics quite well but when trying to keep up the raid from the frost aura damage, there comes a point where I find myself running out of mana fairly quickly. I've also been trying to maximize using my Shadowfiend, Hymm of Hope (for what its worth), and cheating the OO5SR with Inner focus.

In terms of gear I know where are many upgrades I can get but drops have been very unlucky for me and I am wearing the best I can until I get upgrades.