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Topic: Disc Priest Cooldown Strategy Questions

Cawlin Posts: 20,754 Registered: Feb 22, '05 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 20,667 User ID: 1,030,445	Subject: Disc Priest Cooldown Strategy Questions
	Healing as a disc priest, is it basically mandatory for you to use all your cool downs all the time now? Pain Suppression Power Infusion Inner Focus Shadowfiend PW:Barrier Divine Hymn Hymn of Hope Any others? As a DPS player I usually macro cooldowns and trinket /use effects to abilities to make sure that I use those cooldowns whenever they are available but in WOTLK I can count the number of times I had to use a CD in a 5-man with my disc priest on one hand. Are you priests macroing these abilities to ensure you use them somewhat indiscriminately or are you intelligently using them and saving them for "just the right time"? I would love to hear priest players' thoughts on the use of these cooldowns who have more experience on their priest than I do on mine (which is pretty much all of you). -----signature----- If ignorance were painful, half the posters here would be on morphine drips. Everyone playing WoW knows everything about playing two classes: 1) their own and 2) Hunters
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st0rmie Posts: 5,783 Registered: Apr 20, '05 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 5,764 User ID: 1,043,627	Subject: Disc Priest Cooldown Strategy Questions
	I definitely try to hit Inner Focus every cooldown, and I definitely need Shadowfiend on boss fights. Power Infusion, I know everyone says "use it on yourself!" now, but I can't break the habit of using it to haste a DPS caster. Hymn of Hope I pop if we get a safe moment (e.g. impale phase on Magmaw). I try to synch it with Shadowfiend so I have the increased base mana while the Fiend is active. Divine Hymn, as always, is the "omg everything is going horribly wrong!" cooldown. Although it feels pretty feeble compared to level 80, it hasn't scaled at all well with the increased health pools and damage. Pain Supp I've always been bad at using ad-hoc (as opposed to planned "Banq, Pain Supp on phase x" type stuff. Power Word: Barrier I'm even worse since you need to position it. That's what I have to work on to get better as a level 85 healer. -----signature----- Banquetto <Moonbrook Bowls Club> - 85 Dwarf Priest / Daggerspine Beliandra <Moonbrook Bowls Club> - 80 Human Rogue / Daggerspine Beliarchia <Moonbrook Bowls Club> - 80 Draenei Shaman / Daggerspine
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Maxximus17 Title: High Warlord Posts: 33,836 Registered: Dec 31, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 29,511 User ID: 585,159	Subject: Disc Priest Cooldown Strategy Questions
	save hymn for boss fights, use your CDs all the time. -----signature----- Maxximus 70 Undead Priest Rank 14 High Warlord of Bleeding Hollow http://maxximus.dvdaf.com/owned?rc=1
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