Spell Focus: Flash Heal

Description


Flash Heal (Rank 9)
470 Mana, 40 yd range
1.5 sec cast
Heals a friendly target for 1101 to 1279.

Flash Heal is kind of an emergency spell for the priest. It is fast, but not very mana efficient.
You will use Flash Heal if you need to heal someone very quickly. Either because they may die if you don’t, or if you cannot spare much time to stand still and cast.
Imagine a fight where random raid members are taking mediocre amounts of damage, but you cannot predict any damage patterns to heal in advance or cast a Renew on them. This is where Flash Heal shines.

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Spell Focus: Greater Heal

Description


Greater Heal (Rank 7)
825 Mana, 40 yd range
3 sec cast
A slow casting spell that heals a single target for 2396 to 2784.

As you can see, Greater Heal is a rather slow spell but it packs a punch.
Nearly every priest dedicated to healing has 5 talent points invested into Divine Fury. So the effective casting time of your Greater Heal will be 2.5 seconds, not 3.
This is still quite some time. Many bosses hit your tank more than once in 2.5 seconds. So you have to be careful about using this spell. It is however far from useless.

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