I've never really theory-crafted before so I highly doubt I will make any sense in the next few paragraphs. I am not gonna go all out with number crunching (yeah, I HATE math) though.
Anyways, I've been eyeing Trauma (Heroic) for a while now... and sure, I am a bit skeptical about the proc rate. It does look sexy to me... and very tempting.
STATS:
+48 Stamina
+52 Intellect
Yellow Socket
Socket Bonus: +5 Spell Power
Equip: Increases spell power by 836.
- Sure it lacks the spirit that most of us priests would sell our own souls for (and if it did have Spirit, I think I would spend ALL my DKP for this fucking thing... and maybe promise a few newds if I don't have enough points just so I'd have a chance to get this ^_^), but it's the proc that's making me /drool.
"Each time your spells heal a target you have a chance to cause the target of your heal to heal themselves and friends within 10 yards for 245 each sec for 6 sec." Granted it sucks that the HoT does not scale with spellpower, but that's Blizzard for you.
I've been told time and time again that any self respecting healer is going to give the roll to druids for this. Since one of the two druids we have who was next in line to get this dropped out of the raid scene and the other druid already has this, I think I will be fighting for this item soon. I've been told that it's not that good for holy priests, but hey, I had to find out WHY for myself.
The upside of having a priest is the flexibility of changing play-style without having to re-spec every time. I am a renew-centric for some fights (BQ, for example). Others, I do more Prayer of Mending/Circle of Healing. Let's get down to business.
So Trauma + Holy Priest:
Flash Heal - Well, this sucker don't really pack much of a punch (FML and my weak heals!!! /emo), but when Surge of Light procs, it's a free heal. Would Trauma proc from this? If it does, free heal + HOT = /wowgasm.
Greater Heal - I don't expect much from this spell really. Thank God for Serendipity, but GDI, if my spell actually heals and goes off on a tank, (with the type of healers that I am up again) then I have more to worry about than looking at Recount.
Renew - weak priest HOT. Almost useless really, but it can save the day sometimes.
POM - I don't have much control with this spell since POM jumps between players on it's own. I always think that in fights that have constant AoE damage, this spell would jump around faster then VD would between a class of horny teenagers. Procc chance = high!
Blessed Healing - a proc from having two pieces of Tier 10. Heals for 33% of the initial amount healed over 9 seconds (3 ticks, 1 tick per 3 seconds). If Trauma proccs from ticks... that would be great also.
Prayer of Healing - probably my second favorite preemptive healing spell (alongside Renew). A macro let's me pop my Beserking before I cast this long-ass spell, which cuts the casting time from 2.6 seconds to 2.2 (AKA from 2.5 POH to 3 POHs before Berserking is over.) It heals the target and the 5 people in his party. So if ToonA is within my line of sight and ToonB isn't, as long as ToonA is withing LOS of ToonB then ToonB still gets a heal... as far as I can tell. I tend to use this on the tank group or the melee group, combo'ed with POM/COH most of the time.
Then the icing on the cake (at least that's what my brain is telling me at the moment):
For fights that are Circle of Healing-centric, I can imagine this would proc a LOT. Since it heals 5 people at a time that's technically 5 chances of proccing every time I use CoH. AND THEN, there's the Glyph of Circle of Healing which adds an extra person healed by CoH.
From what I've made sense of personally, it's a pretty good. Not saying I will make a Druid!Tree cry over this. But I am looking at this from a different perspective from when I first started a few weeks ago.
I quote from
healingcouncil.com:
So before we go any further, here’s the unbiased version of “Who is Trauma best for?”
1) Druids
2) Holy Priests
3) Shamans
4) FoL Paladins who are raid healing
5) Disc Priests
Well, lookie who's on spot numero dos! I can't say I won't roll on Frozen Bonespike (Heroic) when it drops. But now I am leaning more towards Trauma right now...
I hope someone is reading this atm and will make more sense of this insanity for me... /CRY
2 comments:
Someone is reading....
Renew is actually a good priest hot. The downside is that it only ticks 1 time every 3 seconds making it a slow roll. The upside of renew is that the instant heal from it when talented is actually very good, making it much better than the alternative filler which is flash. If you get a SoL proc and someone is in danger of dying, then flash can be a life saver. ICC raid encounter are very low on the spike damage scale so Renew is almost always a better choice for a filler.
Yeah, I never thought about Surge of Light proc from Renew. I mean, I see it all the time (and use it) but I didn't think about it til you mentioned it.
Always appreciate a fresh perspective on things. Thanks Nuc ^_^
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