Spell Focus: Renew
Description
Renew (Rank 12)
450 Mana, 40 yd range
Instant cast
Heals the target for 1110 over 15 sec.
Renew is one of the few instant cast spells without cooldown a priest has hat his or her disposal. It has a very nice health per mana relation considering it is instant cast.
Strengths
Renew is an instant cast spell that will heal a sizeable amount of damage. It will not do so quickly but efficiently.
You can just apply a Renew and continue onward to heal someone else. This is very nice if your tank needs attention, but you need to bring your damage dealers back to full life while taking care of your tank.
Weakness
If someone is taking heavy damage, Renew will not be enough to save him. Renew is a healing over time spell (HoT) and with only one at your disposal, you cannot save lives with HoTs alone. As a heal over time Spell, Renew heals a rather low amount health per second, in relation to your regular healing spells.
When & how to use
Keep a Renew on your tank all the time. Do it. Don’t question me, just do it. HoTs like Renew will keep you, as a healer, happy. The help a lot to smooth out damage spikes and can save your tank’s live and your mana pool quite a bit of stress.
Also use Renew if you can’t afford to take your eyes of your tank for very long, but you need to heal some people to full. Just refresh the Renew on your tank, send him a new Prayer of Mending, and you will have enough breathing room to spend one or two global cooldowns to dish out some Renews to your other raid or party members.
When not to use
Don’t use Renew to heal massive damage on people that are in risk of taking some damage again soon. If you face such a situation, you need to pull of a Prayer of Healing or something similar.
