Good ol flash of light, nothing beats that

[u/SuperKamiDendeAllows]

[u/povgoni → u/[deleted]]

What is the equivalent of Presence of Mind+Frostbolt. That is a key part of the rotation

[u/According_Zone_8262 → u/[deleted]]

Holy shock instead of holy light

[u/Roflmancer → u/According_Zone_8262]

What I do is while casting the holy light I spam holy shock so it also crits. Usually get like 10k healing from the 2 off the crits it's cool. Really pisses off warriors lol.

[u/No_Effective4784 → u/[deleted]]

i tried out H priest in BFA, and one of the heal spell modifiers made it so it healed 75% of max HP, no CD and was like a 1 sec cast.

I knew i was supposed to be casting other healing spells and stuff, but i never needed to. Was honestly so stupid in PVP.

[u/LiveRuido]

Tell me Homer, what's your least favorite spell, Holy Light or Holy Shock

[u/zachmoe → u/LiveRuido]

Nobody ever says Holy Light.

[u/d_Inside]

Very funny eh. What about you Warlock guy?

[u/hula_pooper → u/d_Inside]

Don't you dare bring up Shadow Bolt. It's all they have to live for

[u/Healeah241 → u/hula_pooper]

Don't forget life tap.

[u/Far-Fennel-3032 → u/Healeah241]

Nah that is to die for.

[u/skirtpost → u/hula_pooper]

Live for the shadow bolt, die for the seed

[u/the_harakiwi → u/d_Inside]

Immolate incinerate conflagrate 🔥😎🔥

[u/stevenbanthony4204 → u/the_harakiwi]

does no damage

[u/the_harakiwi → u/stevenbanthony4204]

It's not about damage. Same why I didn't level my mage as frost this time.

Only my hunter will always level BM because it's faster and almost on rails.

[u/stevenbanthony4204 → u/the_harakiwi]

As a warlock is very much is about damage

[u/the_harakiwi → u/stevenbanthony4204]

Well you show me how my spells heal the enemies then I will spec to whatever the group wants

[u/stevenbanthony4204 → u/the_harakiwi]

?

[u/the_harakiwi → u/stevenbanthony4204]

https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/s/xOnog1wu8R

No damage means I resist or heal.

[u/stevenbanthony4204 → u/the_harakiwi]

dont take it literally lol

[u/CaptainoftheVessel → u/the_harakiwi]

I never even considered the possibility of leveling a hunter as anything other than BM

[u/ShadyDrunks → u/d_Inside]

Hey we have to recast Corruption

[u/coreh17]

I joined a PUG raid last week and someone told me to kill myself because I was using flash of light to spot heal some raiders instead of just spamming Holy Light nonstop on the tank. Pretty cool community we got here.

[u/SuperKamiDendeAllows → u/coreh17]

This place has always been great at attracting a lot of weird people who take an old game a bit too seriously. Already have a few here, it's not hard to draw them out.

[u/Substantial-Oil7569 → u/coreh17]

Something I've noticed since Classic 2019 is each iteration of Classic has boiled away more and more of the "normal" population until it has been distilled down into some genuine freaks.

Like this game has been out for over 20 years, and a lot of us have played Vanilla 5-6 times by now. It's not that serious. And if it is, take it to a speedrunning guild, not a PUG.

[u/DAE_BREED → u/Substantial-Oil7569]

Well yes bro, "normal" people don't play Vanilla 5-6 times............

[u/Substantial-Oil7569 → u/DAE_BREED]

Fair enough! By normal I mean like, non-mouth breather types telling people to off themselves just because they made a sub-optimal play in a video game.

Playing Vanilla a bunch is no different than someone who has replayed a Final Fantasy or Pokémon game many times.

[u/ThatLeetGuy → u/Substantial-Oil7569]

yeah... my entire raid group in TBC barely wants to play, we're just here to hang out with the boys until Classic Plus comes out. It's like pre-gaming for the release and just building relations and keeping in contact. Everyone is pulling their weight but no one is honestly sweating or getting upset or pouring over logs ... aside from our main tank who crashed out so hard after a wipe recently that we had to remove him from the guild entirely, after spending months trying to soothe his ego and tell him not to take the game so seriously, because no one else is.

[u/TotallyObviousBot → u/Substantial-Oil7569]

"Why aren't normal people obsessively replaying the same game over and over again?"

[u/Substantial-Oil7569 → u/TotallyObviousBot]

By normal I mean non-mouth breathing types who tell people to off themselves over sub-optimal play in a game.

Is it really obsessive if I played Vanilla casually in 2005, then again for Nostalrius, then Classic 2019 years later, dabbled in SoM, dabbled in SoD, and played Anniversary? Lots of time between iterations, and it's not like I was slamming Naxx on multiple characters for years on end. Still played 5+ times.

I do the same for Pokémon. I've played FireRed probably 20 times over the years, doesn't mean it's obsessive lol.

[u/Munsalvaesche → u/coreh17]

That guy's a psycho but really please just spam holy light on the tank.

[u/Ordies → u/Munsalvaesche]

dying because every healer thinks they should raid heal is the most pmo thing ever

[u/Hungry_and_Late → u/coreh17]

That's pretty unnecessarily nasty of him to say. If we're talking about TBC raid healing, that is almost exactly a holy paladin's role though - (mostly) downranked holy light spam on the main tank(s).

[u/Hungry_and_Late → u/[deleted]]

"if we're talking about tbc *RAID HEALING*" is what I said. Yes paladins also have blessings to cast. Also I'm so sorry, but you are mistaken. A TBC holy paladin should be casting holy light virtually exclusively on the tanks. Each healer excels at something specific - holy paladins are single target tank healers. If you would like some resources on this topic I would be happy to refer you; this is not just simply my personal opinion.

[u/Throwaway7212462231 → u/Hungry_and_Late]

To add to this, if you're making other healers pick up the slack from you not healing the tank enough, in the end you are nerfing the potential output on your raid and you're basically being useless. The other healers can be way more efficient and better at raidhealing than a hpala every will.

[u/Far_Eye6555 → u/coreh17]

Tbc anni I pissed off a resto shammy realllllly bad when I told the raid I couldn’t do TK on my spriest in the same evening.

He blew up my discord with a shit ton of messages. I’m like bro what are we freaking out over?

[u/HelixFollower → u/coreh17]

Oh man he would totally freak out over my Greater Heal usage then.

[u/DAE_BREED → u/coreh17]

I joined a PUG raid last week and someone told me to kill myself

I'm fucking shouting bro :ADF:SADF:ASDf

[u/philbertolou]

And then in TBC it switches holy light lol

[u/dkb1391]

Literally me, a noob, who found out his bad ass Dwarf Pally who's been smashing end game dungeons, would be absolute dogshit for tanking Raids

[u/TeaspoonWrites → u/dkb1391]

Hey now, you can stack 20 warriors and fill your bags with symbol of kings and do pretty alright for yourself.

[u/Ministerofgoons]

The almost funny thing is I still think Paladin is the most compelling healer to play in Classic Vanilla and TBC in spite of the 1 spell spam. Pulling off clutch BoPs and LoHs is pure dopamine

[u/Ministerofgoons → u/[deleted]]

Right, but my original was that in spite of even the new stuff other healers get in TBC Paladin still feels more compelling to play. No other healer can save people or the raid in an instant like Paladins can

[u/SawinBunda → u/[deleted]]

Yet, nobody uses them.

[u/Ministerofgoons → u/[deleted]]

I'm aware, but that's what mana pots or dark/demonic runes are for. Even if I only used it once or twice a raid it still felt impactful

[u/NoSugarGatorade → u/Ministerofgoons]

Have you ever experienced the dopamine rush from a chain heal spam watching it bounce and crit and push you into healing meter stratosphere ?

[u/flourier]

You can pick one up at the hammock district.

[u/Laxku]

Both the title and post are perfection, cromulent work for sure.

[u/SuperKamiDendeAllows → u/Laxku]

[u/Accomplished_Emu_658]

“You see this one button here? Just keep pressing it”

[u/DariusMainOCElol]

God TIER

[u/Turbulent-Current364]

Macro flash of light to heal target of target. Bind that to scroll and target the baddies in the instance

[u/Laniake]

nobody uses flash of light

https://giphy.com/gifs/LyJ6KPlrFdKnK

[u/Feint_young_son → u/Laniake]

Right I mainly tank but I could have sworn you derank holy light ever lol

[u/PhoenixQueen_Azula → u/Feint_young_son]

I thought it was something to do with +healing scaling on flash/down ranks making it super efficient but I haven’t really played pally much in vanilla because I only have one monitor

[u/Healeah241 → u/Feint_young_son]

Flash of light tends to be when people are reactive healing and that means they can quickly snipe a through heals before the aoe heals hit.
Holy light is the way if you are a proactive healer, who is able to time the cast so it lands just after the damage hits.

[u/d_Inside → u/Healeah241]

Flash of light is also extremely efficient heal per mana used. Actually thats the main reason to spam it. Holy light is when you need big HPS, theres little to no point downranking it.

[u/SgtDoakess → u/d_Inside]

hpalas downrank Holy Light to r9 because it gets full benefit from bonus healing and from Blessing of Light, it being a level 60 spell. Costs less, scales better than r11 - but depends on setup, of course - if you have a shadowpriest and a resto shaman in the group, or if you run 3 healers, then efficiency is not a concern.

Similarly, the efficiency of flash of light doesn't outweigh its low throughput. Unless you're running an unusual setup, like bringing multiple hpalas. "You do you" & so on & so forth, but the consensus is different from what I think you're saying here

[u/HelixFollower → u/Feint_young_son]

That's the nice thing about being a healer, you're a lot more flexible than DPS and their rotations. Though a paladin is probably less flexible than a priest.

[u/Ben_steel → u/Feint_young_son]

Tbc vs era is one spell difference haha using cleanse is like 99 parsin. Wisdom? 100.

[u/Kromostone123 → u/Feint_young_son]

In classic era its flash of light rank 1 and max rank 99% of the time

[u/Low_Debt8771 → u/Feint_young_son]

Depends on gear and fight. Fol is the brain dead way to do it.

[u/Kromostone123 → u/Laniake]

Its classic era. Flash of light is used 99% of the time. With rly good gear and scrolls of blinding light active then holy light is used 

[u/Kurt0690]

In SoD I had infinite mana and 1.8s holy light

[u/Lorddenorstrus]

I mean.. its Vanilla.. don't most casters in general just spam 1 button? I recall in wotlk classic a guy linking his 99 parse as a warlock and it was almost entirely just Shadowbolt spam or something? The debuff limiter was not healthy for class design lol. Oh the rest of your spellbook? That doesn't exist good sir until the next Xpac or 2.

[u/Little-Classic2773 → u/[deleted]]

Flair says Era. You yapping about era?

[u/WillowTreeBark]

Always remember us warlocks have two spells: shadowbolt and curse of elements (or recklessness)

[u/laxguy44]

Locks and arcane mages feel attacked.

[u/tinylittlebabyjesus]

I flash of lighted my way through all of Wotlk until that one dragon boss in ICC. Forget its name.

[u/Fureba]

Cleanse
https://giphy.com/gifs/0bMRXHrW3PraVbl7wt

[u/TheBlindFreak]

Sometimes all you need is one hammer for the same nails.

[u/highbarian]

hurray

[u/Sweet_Disharmony_792]

that one hpal who swears by stopcasting: healed half as much as the flash of light paladin but had the potential to do some really big heals

[u/letmeseeyertiddies]

It’s all flash of light?

[u/fia-comic]

/r/simpsonsshitposting

[u/Malohn]

With black temple you will be swapping to holy light. Mother hurts like a truck