Priest healing power and efficiency chart

[Bolty]

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?[right][snapback]97200[/snapback][/right]

No argument here. I use the prototypical 26 disc/25 holy build (aka the raid build), because the holy tree is poorly designed. No points go to the Greater Heal improvement talents.

When do I use Greater Heal in raids? The only times I do are when I'm healing a single tank myself or in a Druid duo. This occurs in two spots so far in our 40-player raids in Avarice: Golemagg dog offtanks and Majordomo Executus.

I use Greater Heal a bunch in 5-mans, much to the chagrin of the tanks who haven't learned that being at 5% health is still okay if they've got me as their healer. I know I'm not the norm in that, simply because it does make my tanks very nervous - they're used to flash heals keeping them above 50% health, not a maniac who only STARTS healing when they're at 50% health (hey, I can't overheal, that's inefficient!). If I do it in PUGs, the tanks go berserk... "HAEL ME! N00B I amlost deid!" "Uh, no."

Greater Heal is just not cast often enough to be worth spending talent points on, especially when that means taking them away from the valuable Discipline tree that's oh-so-helpful all the time. I know that Blizzard knows this, so it'll be very interesting to see what they'll do.

I do spend the points in the Prayer of Healing efficiency talent, however. 2 talent points for a boost that will make PoH an insanely efficient spell with +heal gear (and OMG that Transcendence set bonus) is too juicy to pass up.

Don't even get me started with Nature's Swiftness. Instant-cast 2500 hp heals are just wrong. Damn Druids. :)

-Bolty