Need Critique for Disc Priest

[Valbot 0]

Hey guys! I need some help....I went back to disc spec as my main spec about a month ago and it has been a series of crash courses and trials by fire in the continuous quest to be the best healer I can be. I'm well aware of the basics and have in my opinion been fairly successful thusfar (12/12 ToT w/ heroic attempts on first boss).

However, it has been brought to my attention that I may not be performing as well as I should, particularly with "clutch" healing. I will preface and say that I completely forgot about Inner Focus (yeah, very embarassed), and did not use it in rotation on a dying team member: PWS, Penance, Inner Focus, Greater Heal, etc....

It has also taken some time, and a work in progress with using my spirit shells properly. I have begun focusing more on popping them 10-12 sec before massive amounts of damage and then using them on cd, though the latter is harder to do when 2 healing. I use PWS on tanks and anyone who is taking extreme amounts of damage or for speed boost on Megeara for cinders. Since 5.4 I tend to use Penance on the tanks more and it is taking some retraining to get used to that. Still attoning, some fights more than others.

I'm looking for some constructive criticism be it my stats, gems, glyphs, etc, etc...

Here are my links:

http://www.wow-heroes.com/character/us/Stormrage/v%C3%A4l/ on wow-heroes

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/Stormrage/v%C3%A4l/advanced Armory

http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-gzzuadirg66gl7xj/ logs from earlier this week

http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/9t47w7j1oll6bdm1/ logs w/ heroic attempts

http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/i6c0wir4w2ewx2dk/ logs from earlier

Thank you all for any help, and putting in the time to check these out. Much appreciated!

-Val

[Krazyito 521]

From what I can see, most of your logs look fine. You could maybe atonement more during down time. The smart heal is faster than anything you can do to someone who is not full health.

Penance does really good atonement heals as well. It does help heal someone quick when they are low, but don't "not use it on CD" just for that. If its off CD and someone needs a quick heal, its definitely a good spell to pop on them.

For more "clutch healing" I would say make Void Shift and Desperate prayer your friend. Find a comfortable keybind for Void Shift and either macro desperate prayer into it or pop it from a different keybind. I find that I'm always using void shift on every fight and even trash. It's just a great life saving tool (or way of killing someone =P). Another tool is your Life-Grip. If someone is standing in bad stuff, don't hesitate to grab them and move them out and start spamming them with heals. Or if a tank is running around from a pack of adds or a tank ability that is about to one shot them. Grip them and spam them. Spirit shell can also be a very powerful single target CD when timed properly.