are you fighting the same flame leviathan i’m fighting?

I’m a Holly Paladin, and a MT healer.
Well, its seems some like….obvious.
Holly Paladin = MT healer
But the thing its…I can’t don any other role in the raid. Not without doing it under the…how to say that….¿underpowered? Juts compared to Druid, Shamans, etc…

But the thing its that the MT healer role, my role…i’m the only class capable of do it at my level. (Well, maybe a Priest Disci ^ ^)
I’m healing about 15k every 2 seconds, and my maná keeps flowing until the end.
The rest of classes cat keep up with that,
That’s our power. And I’m happy with it.
I can do my job….a really important role….and the raid win.

I’ll be really really happy with a AoE XD ¡Who’s not!
Maybe a ability in the holly talents who make consecration heal and do damage…¡something like that!

The thing it’s than many bosses in Ulduar let us regenerate our maná pool over and over again.
Some kind of unlimited mana supply.
With that, and the massive healing (and overhealing XD) of HL, we can do a job that only we can do.
And im fine with that ^ ^

This guild worked blissfully through Naxx. We had no problems with OS+2 but never got the full three drakes. We did everything else. H8 @ [Glory of the Raider].

My Holy Paladin is sitting on some of the best available gear from pre-Ulduar, and so is about 3/4s of the guild, but we’re complete idiots! The problem *is* with the healing team. It’s really sad to look at the healing meters and try to determine if someone was even healing their assigned target.

I really like what you’re doing with your second Healy Paladin. I haven’t had the privilege of being with my usual partner for the content, so I’ve been frustrated with a geared and competent partner that I’ve never worked with before. He really enjoys sniping raid heals. It’s a problem.

I’m trying to tell our healing lead that it’s a problem with a whole lot of the raid. He’s very touchy. He refuses to look at what WWS and Recount would say. We don’t have a balanced raid composition. We run with 3 Resto Druids, 0 Healy Priests, 2 Holy Paladins, and 1.5 Resto Shaman. In practice, our druids fill in roles very nicely.

When a 4th Resto Druid volunteered during our XT attempts, we brought her in and threw my partner back to his normal Retribution Spec, I coordinated wonderfully with her between XT’s melee swings. To my knowledge, no other healer has even attempted to coordinate yet. :[

In 10man content, I’m brute-forcing my healing all over the raid. With no second paladin to mess up my Beacon of Light target, I’m letting myself just go bonkers with sniping heals and tunnel-visioning on my raid frame. The 10man content is very forgiving, and I just can’t trust even our ATEAM healing group to push through some encounters.

During Flame Leviathan, I haven’t been thrown out yet. I’m just “too good” on the shield/mortaring.

For Razorscale, I’m given a tank on either the right or left and allowed to FoL spam my way through a fun fight.

No Ignis attempts on Heroic Ulduar yet.

On XT-002, I’m given the lovely task of healing the MT between melee swings, and then proceeding to lay down the ultrahot Seal of Wisdom mana regen during the heart phase for 30 seconds straight. Coordination with the second healer assigned is so crucial!

(10man) Assembly of Iron involves dispelling the Rune Punch on the “big guy” tank. We do Big/Medium/Midget for our kill order. If the tank is a paladin, I can relax and heal up the massive burst of damage the boss can slap onto the tank. If not, well I need a second healer to cover me while I get the debuff cleansed. (Maybe I’m a weak healer. :X) The rest of the encounter it’s straight forward “don’t range your tank/healer and run from stuff.

(10man) Kologarn. Oh. My. God. (10man) Kologarn. Easy stuff as long as DPS realize that ledge in front of his face does not have a guardrail. We kill the right arm, to avoid the grips. Healers swap to whoever he grabs until it gets chopped off. Paladins are well suited to throw a Holy Light onto the victim, and with the OT and the MT often very close to this arm, Beacon is in full effect. We switch tanks when the MT has the debuff up to 3 stacks, and the OT takes the adds and the boss for a few seconds. This switch is pretty easy to handle.

Auriaya isn’t too complicated. Brute force tank healing. Healing whoever gets pounced is a raidhealer job. I avoid the assignment gracefully.

Freya (easymode) — I’m using Aura Mastery during the silence while I run for a mushroom. I tend to scream this over Vent, too. The other phases are simple tankhealing bruteforce affairs.

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This is a great guide. Thanks!

Celtons last blog post..Holy Paladin Healing Guide

First, Holy Shock (HS) is both less HPS and HPM than Holy Light (HL). This means that, simply by replacing HS with HL in your “rotation” your mana efficiency and healing goes up.

Second, especially when under the divine plea healing penalty, casting Flash of Light (FoL) is usually a waste of time. Sure its mana efficient but its healing is so low that to use it at any time where you are not completely OOM is sub-optimal. Of course going completely OOM is somewhat sub-optimal as well

Third, in my (admittedly limited – 4 bosses in H Ulduar and 6 in normal) experience, it is not necessary to have 2 pallies constantly spamming on the tank for the whole fight every fight. There are intense periods sure (frozen blows, high stacks on Razorscale) but generally the bosses aren’t hitting THAT hard. Having hots on the tank really takes the edge off too.

Your second pally could be beaconing the main tank and healing the OT and / or other damage (think Ignis Slag Pot, Kologarn’s grip). A holy pally beaconing the main tank and chaining HLs into those targets will dwarf any FoL / HS healing.

One tip: swinging that mace at the boss (even periodically) will return a surprising amount of mana.

Their are opportunites to do reasonable dps in 10 man while recovering mana so use them,