Oh hai

Hello there!

This is WoW blog and is meant to serve as a guide of sorts for healing priests, mostly aimed at tackling healing from a raiding perspective.

I am currently an undead priest raiding with a hardcore casual guild. I'm pretty darn good at it. No, I don't want to share what guild I'm in or what server (though we are first Hordeside, the server is a bit backwater, so this means we're 4/5 ToGC, and are focusing more on our last achievement for Ironbound proto-drakes than hardmode Anub'Arak.25).

I'm hoping to make a guide that is less "the way healing is" and more based around identifying how to set yourself up and supporting the healing core of your own raids. I'm attempting to integrate some math and situational specs/gearing instead of speaking in absolutes based only on my own raid experience. I will be making some posts related to five man content and fresh 80s, but most of this blog is centered around raid content, and the healing benchmarks are more based around having raid gear available to you. While this is easier to attain even as a five man-only healer than it has been in the past, don't expect to hit gear/stat benchmarks as a fresh level 80.

I don't know jack or squat about good PvP play, so I'm not even going to pretend. PvP is good for your reflexes, and I've seen some really good healers come from PvP backgrounds (high reaction time, good dispel reflex, etc). I've seen bad ones too, but point is, if you're afraid to PvE heal, starting in battlegrounds never hurt anyone as a training tool.