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Posted By Carnathagia

All of this is modeled in the spreadsheet. Use...

All of this is modeled in the spreadsheet. Use the Idle Time setting to add additional non-casting time into your rotation. This devalues haste pretty quickly.

Forum: Priests

05/13/11, 6:56 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

The overhealing mechanism isn't working. I ran...

The overhealing mechanism isn't working. I ran into an issue with the overhealing calculations for both masteries, since the are multiplied by the healing values. Basically, the formulas would need...

Forum: Priests

03/05/11, 9:45 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

You are correct, I will get the spreadsheet...

You are correct, I will get the spreadsheet updated. This should increase the value of critical strike rating slightly.

Forum: Priests

02/18/11, 3:01 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

That is safe. I didn't take any Renew talents or...

That is safe. I didn't take any Renew talents or the Glyph to compute Renew values for Discipline.

Forum: Priests

02/16/11, 3:01 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

With the nerf, this changes to Spell...

With the nerf, this changes to

Spell Name| Total Healing |Healing per Cast Time| Healing Per Mana
Penance |29027 |15894 |10.07
Heal |12558| 5501| 6.78
Binding Heal |36155| 26395| 6.27
Greater...

Forum: Priests

02/16/11, 9:04 AM

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Posted By Carnathagia

Spreadsheet version 1.3

Here is the newest version of the Cataclysm Healing Priest Theorycrafting Spreadsheet (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20576150/Cataclysm%20Healing%20Priest%20Theorycrafting%20Spreadsheet%20v%201.3.xls). ...

Forum: Priests

02/16/11, 8:58 AM

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Posted By Carnathagia

It's likely nothing to do with the floor; the...

It's likely nothing to do with the floor; the same thing happens on Argaloth. It's possible to have both ranged groups and the melee group close enough on his hitbox to be covered by one Mass...

Forum: Priests

02/14/11, 3:52 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

It depends on your goal. There is nothing...

It depends on your goal. There is nothing interesting or skillful about absorbing completely non-fatal raid damage with a shield, and getting big numbers because you sniped all of the healing that...

Forum: Priests

02/07/11, 1:00 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

You are absolutely correct, and I had the choice...

You are absolutely correct, and I had the choice of adding idle time to increase the Time to Heal to equal the Fight Length, which devalues Haste (this is what I did during Beta) or show it this way....

Forum: Priests

02/07/11, 12:44 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

4.0.6, which is expected to be deployed on Live...

4.0.6, which is expected to be deployed on Live servers this week, brings some interesting changes to Discipline Priests. Most notably, some of our spells have had their mana costs and values...

Forum: Priests

02/07/11, 11:52 AM

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Posted By Carnathagia

4.0.6 Theorycrafting

4.0.6, which is expected to be deployed on Live servers this week, brings some interesting changes to Holy Priests. Most notably, some of our spells have had their mana costs and values adjusted. ...

Forum: Priests

02/07/11, 9:16 AM

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Posted By Carnathagia

You will have a lower Time To Heal with increased...

You will have a lower Time To Heal with increased Haste because you are spending your mana faster, which will cause you to run out of mana and lower your sustained throughput. The argument has been...

Forum: Priests

01/23/11, 7:22 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

Sorry, I immediately left town after finishing up...

Sorry, I immediately left town after finishing up those numbers. Yes, they are just spreadsheet numbers, so real world applications may vary. They do utilize the new Prayer of Mending Glyph and the...

Forum: Priests

01/21/11, 4:01 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

PTR update

I've had a chance to test out all of the PTR changes (the new build went up this week), so here they are.

Holy Spells with new values
Spell Name| Minimum | Maximum | Coefficient
PoH | 3087 | 3262 |...

Forum: Priests

01/07/11, 4:24 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

This was a big issue after a Holy Priest solo...

This was a big issue after a Holy Priest solo healed Valithria Hardmode in 1 minute with Holy Nova spam. Since glyphed Holy Nova is exactly 1 second, and the new cast queue makes queuing instants...

Forum: Priests

01/06/11, 5:20 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

We started 25 mans last night, and after breezing...

We started 25 mans last night, and after breezing through the first three with no trouble, we had to take a few attempts on Chimaeron. We started with a modified version of our 10 man strategy where...

Forum: Priests

01/04/11, 11:39 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

Glyph of PoH

A small piece of testing I missed during Beta: I tested and confirmed that the Glyph of Prayer of Healing heal over time effect does not stack or roll the way that our mastery does; it simply...

Forum: Priests

01/04/11, 11:24 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

We did 10 man Chimaeron the same way we did...

We did 10 man Chimaeron the same way we did Penetrating Cold; have the healers sort the raid the same way, and 1 healer gets the first debuffed player, and the 2nd healer gets the 2nd debuffed...

Forum: Priests

12/30/10, 5:02 PM

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Priest Simple Questions/Simple Answers: Cataclysm

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Posted By Carnathagia

Haste buffs are not additive. You have 1.03 *...

Haste buffs are not additive. You have 1.03 * 1.01 * 1.05 = 1.0923 or 9.23% haste, which means you need 1.125 / 1.0923 = 1.0299 or 2.99% (~383 rating) haste from gear to reach 12.5%.

Forum: Priests

12/28/10, 6:24 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

I've had similar issues with the exact same...

I've had similar issues with the exact same macro, I believe its due to the new client-side spell queue. Also, there seems to be some unresolved issues with Train of Thought and the timer on Inner...

Forum: Priests

12/28/10, 6:19 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

The Stat Weightings outputs in C25:D30 divide the...

The Stat Weightings outputs in C25:D30 divide the additional throughput by the values in R3 and S3. To get the sustained and burst stat weightings to be equivalent, the S3 value needs to be R3 *...

Forum: Priests

12/28/10, 5:38 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

Bastion of Twilight

Halfus Wyrmbreaker
10 man kill log (I believe this was with both tank damage drakes) (http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/it7zypfdlvitomzf/sum/healingDone/?s=861&e=1177)
Healing this encounter varies...

Forum: Priests

12/21/10, 4:07 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

Additional Haste percentage increases are...

Additional Haste percentage increases are multiplicative with your Haste from Haste Rating. That means you don't have 9.2% + 3% = 12.2%, what you do have is 1.092 * 1.03 = 1.12476 or 12.476% Haste.

Forum: Priests

12/21/10, 4:01 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

The table you listed is for Holy Priests,...

The table you listed is for Holy Priests, assuming all of the Renew talents and glyphs. For Discipline, Renew4 is less efficient than any other single target spell (excepting Smite with no...

Forum: Priests

12/17/10, 3:52 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

I updated my copy of the spreadsheet for Holy...

I updated my copy of the spreadsheet for Holy Concentration and ran the numbers for the PoH rotation. I made sure to normalize the divisors, so the 2 columns should be comparable now.

Stat...

Forum: Priests

12/15/10, 11:21 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

Since Intellect is static on gear, and not...

Since Intellect is static on gear, and not reforgeable, the only time you have the choice between Intellect and Spirit is in your gemming. Gemming Purified (Intellect/Spirit) in blue gems is usually...

Forum: Priests

12/15/10, 5:27 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

In these two fights, the idea was to activate PoH...

In these two fights, the idea was to activate PoH Chakra (I'm pretty sure I'm not keeping perfect uptime on it in these attempts) with Prayer of Mending at the beginning of the fight while using it...

Forum: Priests

12/15/10, 3:56 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

Holy's niche is that we are the most efficient...

Holy's niche is that we are the most efficient Multi-target healers. Prayer of Mending, Prayer of Healing, and Lightwell are arguably the best counters to the raid wide damage prevalent in many...

Forum: Priests

12/13/10, 2:58 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

While this is true theoretically, in practice it...

While this is true theoretically, in practice it doesn't work. Greater Heal is ~260% more throughput for 90% of the efficiency of Heal. Think of Greater Heal as a buff that increases Haste by 260%,...

Forum: Priests

12/06/10, 3:09 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

Grace is an additional 24% bonus, while the...

Grace is an additional 24% bonus, while the effect of Critical, with RH and DA is another 26%. However, the Spellpower in that example should be 7482 (8535 raid buffed) from the same gear set with...

Forum: Priests

12/06/10, 2:38 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

I found Spirit of Redemption very useful for...

I found Spirit of Redemption very useful for early kills; those times when you are 2-3% away and you are out of mana. Dying at that point is going to be your better option if you have the...

Forum: Priests

12/06/10, 9:14 AM

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Posted By Carnathagia

Haste for efficiency Not really. When you are...

Haste for efficiency

Not really. When you are talking about a more efficient spell and haste, its generally the difference between Heal and Greater Heal. Greater Heal has 89% of the efficiency of...

Forum: Priests

12/05/10, 2:21 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

The 'Burst' stat weighting is how a stat affects...

The 'Burst' stat weighting is how a stat affects your peak healing per second. This has been our metric for WotLK since max HPS was desirable. Spirit has no effect on this number.

The 'Sustained'...

Forum: Priests

12/02/10, 5:13 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

Check your Time to Heal, and keep adding Greater...

Check your Time to Heal, and keep adding Greater Heals until it is slightly less than your fight length, which should reduce your Heals to keep the rotation time at 1 minute. Also, I added 5 ProMs...

Forum: Priests

12/01/10, 9:23 AM

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Posted By Carnathagia

Spirit is a much better stat for improving...

Spirit is a much better stat for improving efficiency than Haste. Assume you need to maintain a certain throughput level, and your spells are Heal and Greater Heal (Flash Heal spam should hopefully...

Forum: Priests

11/29/10, 11:42 AM

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Cataclysm Priest Changes

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Posted By Carnathagia

Something to note, Inner Focus now only affects...

Something to note, Inner Focus now only affects Flash Heal, Binding Heal, Greater Heal, and Prayer of Healing. Throw away your old Inner Focus + Divine Hymn macros.

Forum: Priests

11/22/10, 4:24 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

Build 13277

The original post is updated to reflect the changes to the latest (and hopefully last) Beta build. The new spreadsheet version is here (http://www.filefront.com/17546959/Cataclysm Healing Priest...

Forum: Priests

11/09/10, 9:28 AM

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Posted By Carnathagia

Mana Tide Totem is 350% spirit regen for 12...

Mana Tide Totem is 350% spirit regen for 12 seconds every 3 minutes, which will increase the value of spirit for any raid composition that has a Resto Shaman. This will be in the final spreadsheet...

Forum: Priests

11/03/10, 5:05 PM

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Cataclysm Priest Changes

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Posted By Carnathagia

If the damage patterns stay as they are in the...

If the damage patterns stay as they are in the 1st tier Cataclysm raids, shield spam will be fairly useless.

The true value of a shield, as far as saving lives, is the extra effective health that it...

Forum: Priests

10/26/10, 5:23 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

Since 1/K*Sp is the same as Sp/K, the two...

Since 1/K*Sp is the same as Sp/K, the two formulas should give identical results:

Base * (1 + 1 / 9345 * Sp) * mod = Base * (1 + SP / 9345) * mod

Also to note: This isn't my formula. The credit...

Forum: Priests

10/26/10, 2:31 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

Power Word: Shield undocumented changes

Power Word: Shield undocumented changes

I noticed that Power Word: Shield numbers from the spreadsheet no longer reflect what is on Beta, so I retested.
Results are here....

Forum: Priests

10/24/10, 3:51 PM

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Cataclysm Priest Changes

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Posted By Carnathagia

Here are some videos and logs of Cataclysm raid...

Here are some videos and logs of Cataclysm raid encounters.

Discipline - Theralion and Valiora (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUpH5umyaUU)
Log...

Forum: Priests

10/19/10, 1:06 AM

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Posted By Carnathagia

Some of the modifiers are additive, some seem to...

Some of the modifiers are additive, some seem to be multiplicative. The list in the first post attempts to demonstrate this, but any testing and/or confirmation for modifiers you can contribute is...

Forum: Priests

10/16/10, 2:53 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

If you have the spreadsheet version from 10/14,...

If you have the spreadsheet version from 10/14, there is an error in the Divine Aegis variable on the Formula tab.

Cell C84 should be changed from: =Divine_Aegis*0.1*Shield_Discipline_Bonus
to:...

Forum: Priests

10/14/10, 1:35 PM

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Posted By Carnathagia

New Spreadsheet version, updated for level 80....

New Spreadsheet version, updated for level 80. (http://www.filefront.com/17388201/Cataclysm Healing Priest Theorycrafting Spreadsheet v1.0.xls)

Level 80 spell data added.
Renew ticks can proc...

Forum: Priests

10/13/10, 7:30 PM

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Healing Priest FAQ v4.0.1: Surviving until December, 7th

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Posted By Carnathagia

I went through and retested spell coefficient and...

I went through and retested spell coefficient and base values for level 80 in 4.0. The results are in this Google Docs spreadsheet...

Forum: Priests

10/13/10, 2:12 PM

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