Priest healing power and efficiency chart

[Lissa]

http://homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~raceca...ot1.0.html

This is so cool.  This interactive chart shows the effects of Priest healing talents and +heal equipment on healing power and efficiency.  This allows you to see graphically how, after obtaining enough +heal equipment, the heal curves really flatten out.  Uber Priests decked with Transcendence gear (the Tier 2 set that prioritizes +heal much more than Prophecy) can basically pick and choose their heal spells for any given situation, since the efficiency ratio ratches them up so much.  The smaller the amount of +heal you have, the better you are with just picking the top rank of any heal spell.

In case you're wondering, this is why Priests need gear and why it can make a big difference in raiding - they are opened up to using lower level heal spells, allowing them to heal longer and longer and longer with spells that use less mana.  Once you get to that first major breakpoint, where the 2nd highest rank flash heal heals for as much as the highest rank flash heal did without all that gear, it starts getting better and better.

-Bolty
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Interesting thing about this calculator is it shows just how little Talents really effect your efficiency compared to +healing. From the looks of it, a Shadow Priest with enough Healing gear (say around +400 or so, not too hard with the right enchants and epics from the raid instances) can be almost as efficient as a Holy Priest. The only thing that the Shadow Priest may not have is longevity in casting but could still keep up for the most part in overall healing.