Comments on: Much Ado About Renew

By: BenO

BenO — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:53:21 +0000

Its like you wrote down my thoughts!
I had a look at my discipline priest and realised that i was casting renew all the time (i constantly keep it up on the tank, and usually throw it on dps at the first sign of them getting some threat or AoE) but had no points in improved renew. So i fixed that.
I didnt get the glyph for the reason, that i would prefer renew ticking over longer. If i need a lot of healing quickly i use a flash heal or penance.
I didnt get divine fury because i hardly use greater heal.

By: Celinne

Celinne — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:35:29 +0000

Good post, i’m def on the same page as you, as a Disc Priest i mostly find myself tank healing and i like to keep that renew ticking on the tanks if i need to help around with raid healing (note: i do my share of “helping raid heal” tossing PW:S around to those who need it, specially when i’m healing with a resto druid friend because i know that by the time my shield absorbs all it can, the HoTs will already have people on the safe zone if not already topped off).

I think overall Renew will always be a spell i keep handy even if is not my most used one, after all if Blizz gives us the tools might as well use them the best as we can.

Looking foward to your next post :)

By: Pincopiones

Pincopiones — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:16:40 +0000

I use Renew a lot in my Holy spec is easy 25% of my healing done; in Discipline(pvp) spec maybe 10% but(here comes a big BUT) it helps a bit beteween casts; when properly speced Discipline(pve 53/18/0) i use a lot more Greater Heal than any other spell.

By: Crutches

Crutches — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:31:03 +0000

Spot on. Good stuff.

It makes me want to try disc priesting to see what the subtle differences are, but one of the things I think really differentiates good healers from so-so healers is what they do with those rare “spare” GCDs… can a person analyze quickly and determine whether they have spare mana, and whether they can afford to pre-heal/renew/buffer/whatever you have, or is it better to conserve for a more stressful time, etc.

Anyway, nice write-up. I look forward to reading more about disc priesting, it’s one of my weaker spots.

-Crutches, who probably shouldn’t read blogs at 5:30a

By: Kirei

Kirei — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:13:23 +0000

Though I’m Shadow at heart I have healed and it’s become more frequent for me to heal especially for PvP. I’ve found my healing techniques are a bit different than most priests. Which on one hand is good.. and on the other hand can be pretty bad. I’ve always healed as Disc. Makes me feel I haven’t totally been brought to the evil side of Holy. :D

But anyway! On topic eh? I normally use Renew. Unless like you’ve stated I’m pretty low on mana. Renew allows me to top off a DPS without having to divert a lot of my attention. I like it. Of course, I don’t heal during raids.. at least not yet. *crosses fingers to never cross that road*

By: Iaaiv

Iaaiv — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:19:35 +0000

Healing with both a resto druid and a disc priest (they are amazingly similar) I find that I tend to use renew like a single lifebloom. Probably not the most efficient use of this spell but it’s so difficult to break my HoT habit from my druid when I switch over to my priest.

Altogether a nice post and a great looking beginning to a new healing blog that I’ll certainly be adding to my blog roll. Feel free to check out my weekly ramblings too. :-)

By: BobTurkey

BobTurkey — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:51:06 +0000

I tend to agree with your ideas.

Personally I often try and maintain Renew on the tanks even if i’m not assigend to heal them, and always if I am. Renew offer extra throughput.

However if you are having mana issues, or need the global cool downs for other more important spells like PW:S and PoM, not casting Renew doen’t mark you as a port Dicipline priest.

I don’t spec for Renew at all as Disc and if Discipline wasn’t my solo spec also i’d be taking Spell Warding instead of Divine Fury.

Gobble gobble.