Priest healing power and efficiency chart

[Lissa]

What this chart doesn't show you is what you might be giving up for all that +heal, however.  Generally, getting a lot of +heal means giving up a lot of int, spirit, and mana/5sec.  The key is balance.  If your Flash Heal heals for 1300 hps (instead of the standard ~1000), but you only have 5000 mana as a result, you lose.  Myself, I don't go TOO crazy over +heal, because the Priest's primary healing spell (Flash) only gets about 40% of the bonus.  Yes, +heal is nice, but if I'm taking too huge a hit in other departments, I won't do it.

I don't know if anyone's ever determined the Golden Formula for finding the best combo of int, spirit, +mana/5sec, and +heal...because there is none.  It depends on talents, and situations.

-Bolty
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Well, part of the reason I choose +400 is because of two enchants and 1 item that will net you about +170 or more healing. Benediction, the +55 Healing to weapon, and +24 healing to Bracers is around +170 or so (can't remember exact number on Benediction). So, getting another +230 or so from rings, necklaces, armor slots, and wands shouldn't be too hard without sacrificing much.

The main point I was trying to show though is, the top level Holy talents aren't really that useful to overall Healing Efficiency. Case in point, in raiding, how often do you, or any priest, use Greater Heal during a fight? From what I've experienced back in beta doing raid healing and what I've heard others comment since then, the only really useful healing spells during raid for healing from a Priest is Renew, Flash Heal, and Prayer of Healing and that Heal and Greater Heal are used between fights where time is not of the essence.