Additional Resources for Holy Priest — The War Within (11.2.7)

This page will cover all the additional resources you might need for Shadow Priest. We will suggest various third-party tools and guides that can help you improve.

Due to the nature of healing in general, it is effectively impossible to sim healers. Unlike DPS, whose goal is to simply deal as much damage to the boss as possible, healers instead aim to keep players alive. This means sometimes playing in sub-optimal ways in order to save a life. Equally, healing is a zero-sum game, in that if one person does exceptional HPS, the HPS of their co-healers will suffer as a result. These compounding factors, along with the randomness injected into the system by players interacting with their characters, makes simulating healers next to impossible.

Rather than using prescriptive tools like simulations, healers must instead depend on descriptive methods of post-fight analysis, such as upload combat logs and analysing them on Warcraftlogs.

If you are looking to improve your throughput, start with the How to Improve page for many tips and common mistakes.

For deeper log analysis beyond what this guide covers and the above tools can assist you with, we suggest visiting the #holy channel on the Warcraft Priests Discord.

In order to help you further elevate your performance and improve your ability to self-analyze your gameplay, we are preparing a set of guides that teach you how to look at your own logs, find rotational issues, check for uptimes on buffs and debuffs, and much more. Please make sure to check back at a later time once these have been completed.

The Mage Tower offers a unique solo challenge for every specialization to test themselves against, granting a unique transmog set and potential mount for those that manage succeed. If you want to find out more about how to tackle this content, we have a detailed guide ready for you.