Circle of Healing Bloggers
I’m breaking a few of these rules unfortunatly, mainly because I’m still fairly new to the WoW blogger world and those I do know have already done this!
Stolen from Miss Medicina, and to see other peoples answers go here 
Post this questionnaire, with your answers, on your blog. Pick the healing class you know most about (or is the focus of your blog) for the questionnaire, and then send it over to another healing blogger you know and love who heals with a DIFFERENT class. Include a link to the blogger who sent you the questionnaire, as well as a link to the blogger to whom you are sending it.
- What is the name, class, and spec of your primary healer? Kaelea, Priest, Disc.
- What is your primary group healing environment? (i.e. raids, pvp, 5 mans) Primarily 25 man raids, some 10 mans and the occasional 5 man.
- What is your favorite healing spell for your class and why? This would be a toss up between penance and power word: shield, both are just very useful spells as disc which are great for keeping tanks alive. Penance has saved many a tanks ass in it’s time!
- What healing spell do you use least for your class and why? Lesser Heal and Heal.. with flash heal, penance and greater heal these two heals really aren’t that useful to me. I always find I have a better alternative.
- What do you feel is the biggest strength of your healing class and why? For priests as a whole I would have to say the diversity of spells. With both disc and holy at our disposal we are able to heal pretty much anything in a raid. As disc; damage reduction. While other healers can beat us by miles on the healing meters we’re the kings and queens of damage reduction and that makes us a very valuable part of a raid group (finally!
). - What do you feel is the biggest weakness of your healing class and why? I might get shot for this; but the ease of Circle of healing, especially before they added in the cooldown. Way too many holy priests were using just COH and many who started in TBC never really understood how to heal properly as holy. COH is great, and much better now it has a cd, but it needs to be used properly and in conjunction with other spells. As a disc priest who has always loved disc, right now I don’t have many complaints because I am finally able to play the spec I have always loved without being told I need to respec to holy to be able to heal a raid.
- In a 25 man raiding environment, what do you feel, in general, is the best healing assignment for you? Main Tank healing, and in some cases this depends on the tank and the fight. Some fights it is best to put me on the lesser geared tank, on other fights, such as Sarth 3D I’m needed on the tank on the boss due to cooldowns.
- What healing class do you enjoy healing with most and why? Always disc priests, so yep I’m in my element right now as it is my main spec for raiding I have a holy spec, I can use it, but I am the first to admit I am not very good at it. This isn’t anything to do with my lack of knowledge but more to do with my play style. I’m better focusing on tanks, and cross healing as disc. This could be due to a few health problems which mean my play style is set in a certain way.
- What healing class do you enjoy healing with least and why? Druids and Shamans. I admit I have less esperience with the later, but back in classic WoW before I created Kaelea, my druid Aleassa was a healer. I find it very difficult to throw heals around everywhere for some reason, as I said before, I’m much better tank healing and with longer heals.
- What is your worst habit as a healer? Forgetting to use trinkets. I much prefer trinkets that have an equip value rather than a ‘use’. Also, as mention before, I do tend to be very set in my healing style and spec.
- What is your biggest pet peeve in a group environment while healing? I think it has to be the blame game in raids when people look to the healers and complain they had no heals, or someone yells ‘heal me’. So many people seem to think healers stand around and do nothing, completely ignoring peoples health bars. Health bars are pretty much all we look at sometimes! To the point where we may even miss fire Plus, people who complain they got no heals.. sorry but there’s not much we can do if you go splat within 0.5 seconds! And then of course there’s the peeve of being a disc priest; the healers who always seem to think being low on healing meters means you’re crap or slacking. Some people just don’t learn no matter how many times you tell them. Oh.. and pallys aren’t the only main tank healers, thanks
- Do you feel that your class/spec is well balanced with other healers for PvE healing? Yes I do, but in general I’m not really one to complain about my class unless there is something majorly wrong.
- What tools do you use to evaluate your own performance as a healer? As a main tank healer the best indicator is if my tank survived. Dead tank = something didn’t go right. I occasionally ask my boyfriend to see the healing meters, or more specifically the power word: shield add on you can get, which shows a more accurate idea of what a disc priest is healing. Otherwise I look at the WWS reports after the raid, which give a much clearer impression of what I did during a boss fight.
- What do you think is the biggest misconception people have about your healing class? People still don’t believe disc priests can heal. I remember a month or so ago healing a guildie say he was told by a 5 man that he couldn’t heal it. Disc priests can heal, we may not top the meters but that’s because we have a bundle of tricks up our sleeves.
- What do you feel is the most difficult thing for new healers of your class to learn? The range of spells that we have. As I commented on earlier I have seen too many holy priests just use COH. Priests have a whole spellbook of healing spells, some which you will very rarely use, but others that are required for specific occasions.
- If someone were to try to evaluate your performance as a healer via recount, what sort of patterns would they see (i.e. lots of overhealing, low healing output, etc)? Low healing output simply because I am disc, but a closer look would show the amount of damage reduction and bubbles being thrown around.
- Haste or Crit and why? I originally stacked crit and intellect up, and once I felt I had enough I switched to haste. I am now trying to get a balance, however, no matter what I seem to do my crit keeps going up! So many items have crit on as well as haste. At least my haste is also building though
- What healing class do you feel you understand least? Shamans.. druids I have experience with and Paladins I have experience with via other people. But Shamans I have no clue with and am quite happy to admit that. I know the basics and know where to assign them in raids, and that is it.
- What add-ons or macros do you use, if any, to aid you in healing? I use XPerl for my unit frames, and mouse over macros for healing. I’ve found that is the best way for me, and it also means I don’t need to depend on an addon being updated every time a new patch comes out. Even without x-perl I still have my macros and can heal I also use Prayer of Mending Tracker which I really suggest, it’s great for keeping track of your POM.
- Do you strive primarily for balance between your healing stats, or do you stack some much higher than others, and why? In the past there has been a specific stat, such as intellect and haste, but now I am just looking for a balance between them.
I started healing in TBC myself, but at the time, I was a Divine Spirit specced Holy Priest – I just didn’t feel like I needed Circle of Healing back then. And to be honest, I AM rather glad I didn’t pick it up and start using it, because I think you’re right – too many priests became so dependent on it, they never learned to use their other spells.
I think the 6 sec cooldown was actually a great addition. Even with that, I know I use CoH for silly things, such as an instant heal on only one person who has taken damage. At this point, however, I think that just shows that we’re lacking in something for single target burst, like how Disc priests have Penance.
I laughed about Lesser Heal and Heal, by the way. I don’t understand why Blizz even put those spells into the game when they are obsolete once they are replaced with Flash Heal and Greater Heal – why not just call them Flash Heal and Greater Heal at low levels?
Thanks for participating!
heya heather welcome to the blogsophere, I am freshly new as well on blogging world. so keep posting and lets exchange discussions as well. drop by my blog sometimes too. Thanks! I will add you on my blog list. take care.
Hey Christine, I second the welcome to the world of WoW blogging! Thank you for commenting and I’d love to exchange discussions with you, adding your blog to my list now too
I’m glad I’m not the only person who has seen the affect that CoH has had on the way some priests heal. Likewise, I never got to the point of becoming dependant on it, and I think that sort of experience enables some of us to see from the outside what it’s done to some Holy spec priests.
Hehe, yeah I was thinking the same thing when I wrote about those spells. I thought I’d better word it how I did incase someone came along and went ‘well I use them all the time’
Thank you for the comment, and I realise I completly forgot to link the meme back to you, will go fix that now!