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TrianglesTink

It's me. I was the noob today.

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So, I recently boosted a priest to 60 as I hate levelling spriests, and I thought to queue dungeons as holy while I do certain quests.

I accept the dungeon notification but I was on a ROW BOAT in Kul Tiras and it wouldn't teleport me so I had to wait about one minute while the group is going on without me.

Then two minutes into the dungeon I use a spell that transformed me into a holy angel and I thought it killed me so I released spirit (I could have ressed aparently).

So I switched to Disc because that's what I thought I was comfortable with, but later in the same dungeon I'm typing "did they delete flash heal?" While my team starts dying around me.... we survived but I made a big mistake thinking a spec would be the same as a couple of years ago lol (I still don't know if disc ever had flash heal though).

I guess I'll do some more spell reading as I kind of rushed into it and embarrassed myself.

Posted Dec 22, 2021, 7:14 AM UTC

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wentbacktoreddit•

Holy priest is the one with flash heal. Disc priest uses shadow mend now.

You should get a coffee and hit YouTube for an hour or two and watch some guides to either holy or disc priest as they are quite different now as you’ve seen!

It’s OK to make mistakes in beginner content, but you need to do your homework first.

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boknah•

This Yea do this and you should be okay

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Hefang•

I agree I am often in similar situations where I haven't played a class/spec for some time and don't know what's new. In today WoW I guess it is better to etheir boast and look up guides or figure out your spec/class while lvling.

Of course it feel bad to me that not all the basics are tough in game in a fun healty manner.

Have fun with the learning.

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TrianglesTinkOP•

Yeah 90% of these runs barely require any effort though so after that initial hump it was fine :) I think holy will be the way for me

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jamor9391•

I wouldn’t say they are overly challenging, but they do require attention and basic knowledge. Aside from that, holy is a good spec IMO and I prefer it to Disc when I heal as a priest.

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bende99•

Why would you do this smh. Boosting a char then Que for dungs while you dont even know what spells the spec has, let alone play it properly. Totally uncool and this is why ppl are toxic, cuz they had enough of these…

Edit: typo

You can down vote me but reading your abilities before a dungeon takes 3 minutes.

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PunktualPenguin•

I agree, they shouldn’t just jump in, they should have researched it a bit but the game doesn’t prepare healers to heal like it prepares other classes/specs.

DPS, jump in, do the thing you’ve always done, if you pull something blame the tank, if you die, blame the healer. Try not to pull things or be surprised by dungeon mechanics. Congrats, zero surprises and zero changes.

Tank, you’ve been tanking the entire leveling experience, you just don’t know it. There are some twists to it but mostly it is important to know the dungeon really well and lead the party and set the pace but things should mostly feel similar to leveling.

Healer, here is a box of goodies. Do not open until people start dying, good luck.

They have zero use to you while leveling. Maybe someone online explains things, because we certainly can’t be bothered to teach our players how to heal.

If any class needed a pet/tank that it healed, it’s priest.

While leveling most specs teaches you the basics well enough that you can jump into a dungeon and fake it till you make it, leveling a priest and healing in a dungeon run are two vastly different skill sets.

This is why so many priests get abandoned or have bad experiences on their first few runs. They are WAY behind the learning curve and they only really get on the job training while in dungeons.

OPs problem is way too common and one of the main reasons why people abandon priests.

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TrianglesTinkOP•

The best idea I had was using the trials in the garrison that let you heal NPCs while they take damage, but it's just not the same. People here are saying I shouldn't have gone into a dungeon to learn, yet say I should have gone into random dungeons while levelling, to learn, lol. People acting like I wiped my whole group in a Mythic or something.

I admit I should have maybe done some flashcards for keybinds and spells, but damn, practice by doing.

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TrianglesTinkOP•

It's the very start of max content... I'm not levelling a priest while healing in dungeons, it's a waste of time.

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bende99•

wdym? Usually low lvl healers dmg as much as a dps plus the heal. Not mentioning que time?

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TrianglesTinkOP•

Not everyone learns and plays a healing class before 60... also we can read the spells but still need to practice somewhere and learn keybinds :) lucky I didn't post this in wowpros subreddit.

Also I delayed the dungeon maybe 40 seconds. People can be toxic in regular dungeons all they want, but if they speak I'll tell them to fuck off to Mythic.

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bende99•

Yeah you need to practice for sure, we all do. But you didnt even read the basics 5 healing abilities, so its nothing about practice or being a pro. This is simply just not giving a f for the others game.

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TrianglesTinkOP•

You sound like you just play dps all day tbh

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bende99•

Well, nowadays I main a tank, and I used to main healer back in WoD where I lead the healers in mythic HFC, but sure buddy, you do you, Keep boosting, Keep being bad and for some reason offensive. Gl:)

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Squishy-Box•

Yeah but most people actually learn their class especially when they have an important role in a dungeon. You can get away with it as DPS but you just rolled into a dungeon and allowed people to die because you didn’t know what spells you had

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Vedney•

also we can read the spells but still need to practice somewhere and learn keybinds

But you didnt read the spells since you were looking for Flash Heal mid-dungeon. You cant practice what you dont know.

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Normal_Fold•

As someone who pretty much only plays healers in end game content. I've boosted a monk and a priest just to have them in my back pocket if my guild needs them. I would never boost a character and the go blind into a dungeon that's very irresponsible of your role. Tanks and healers are the most important roles I'm pve content, you don't have to be a master of the class but you need to have som knowledge of the spec. Spend an hour to learn the spec before you do group content

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HabeQuiddum•

When you’re learning how to heal, is there any way to tell how well you’re doing? Nobody dying might because I’m the best healer on the server but more likely because we’re just overgeared. Somebody dying could be due to the fact I haven’t tried healing since Vanilla or because somebody is being really dumb. Is Disc a poor choice for my first healing class?

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Normal_Fold•

So first things first even if you are the best healer in the world people are gonna die. People make mistakes and the die. I personally would not recommend disc for a first time healer. It's a hard spec to get good at I personally don't even like it. First time healers I'd recommend druid or shaman or if those don't appeal to you holy pally. Holy pally can get a little tough for a beginner if they don't know how to quickly deal with group wide damage though where with druid and shaman it's much easier

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ctox23b•

I think paladin and disc priests both are a little counter intuitive for beginners since they require you to deal damage in order to heal properly. but you can learn anything.

My go to choice would also be shaman though. not only are they the fotm spec atm alongside paladins but they are also very straight forward with straight forward cooldowns.

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vickers24•

I think the “holy angel” thing your talking about is spirit of redemption. Which happens when you die, not cast a spell. After that ends you are dead and can’t rez yourself(unless you have a certain legendary), but perhaps they meant someone else could’ve rezzed you.

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MeetRevolutionary620•

OP getting downvoted on nearly every comment made has cheered my day up. This guy deserves very little sympathy. You just exposed yourself as the stereotype of the most reviled type of player

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TrianglesTinkOP•

I reckon my next boost will be a hunter! I'm not here for sympathy, I couldn't care less tbh

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Papak34•

Disc priest now requires the highest level of skills, not only from you, but also from the party, to play optimally.

It is not something you want to mess around with randoms.

Said that, gear plays a huge role on how easy a run is.

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Techhead7890•

Yeah, it's crazy how much holy paladin has changed too with the distance mastery... It happens, best of luck with the guide reading.

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mana-addict4652:Horde_Flair:•

This is why I never recommend boosting a character. Especially for any new players reading this.

And of all specs to boost you played disc priest - arguably the most difficult healer in the game without even knowing the basic spell and jumping straight into a dungeon. And I still think you misunderstood the holy priest spell because that doesn't sound right.

IMO boosting shouldn't even be in the game, unless you're playing a hunter or something lol

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TrianglesTinkOP•

Yeah I was going to boost a hunter but I want to be a cute lil mechagnome so I have to do all the questlines first

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rfx87:Alliance_Flair:•

We have all been there 🤣

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