Warrior Priest Melee Healer - Grace (other thread was huge)

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freshour
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Warrior Priest Melee Healer - Grace (other thread was huge)

Post#1 » Thu Feb 18, 2016 4:21 pm

Okay, let's start off with saying I am not posting anything about DoKs and what they can do vs what I can do. I really don't care about them at all (order bias) and have been spending quite a lot of time to come up with a viable melee healer and honestly I am really close. I am averaging around 40-80k damage a game and putting out between 60-100k heals.

So I am going grace, and a lot of it is pretty intuitive. Vision for parry, fist for str, divine assault to burst heal, constantly spamming cleanse so I don't get roasted as I am in the front line. Tactics I am battling with are grace of sigmar, fanaticism (10% crit parry) and I've been switching between a lot of others for this last one. Most use the 25% inc damage, and I do too. I tried the increase damage aura, but slowly learned auras don't like to proc off damage that isn't "direct" damage. I loved leading the prayer but I think a lot of it was a placebo effect. But now I'm kinda stuck. Can't really get my DPS up too much as I had to go all out crit reduction with renown to stay alive as our biggest problem is dying lol. Talismans are mixed with strength and wounds to go with the wounds buff (yes it can be dispelled but might as well take it). I tried out Soulfire but not proccing any auras it just gave me the illusion of increased damage as its not enough AOE to really do anything but pad the scoreboard. I've debated going more grace but if I lose sigmars grace then I lose the biggest reason to be a "melee healer"

The armor buff has been mentioned as huge for squishies regardless of me not being salvation and I understand that argument as well. So I'm not really sure if the healing aura needs an increase maybe just for the WP or maybe the damage aura does. I'm not certain if the damage aura can add to the heal from sigmars radiance but if it does great if it doesn't it would add to putting us more in line with salvation. I dont want to be OP like salvation. I played that spec and it's amazing. I want Melee Healer to work and not be a gimp and Az has shared his view on the matter.

So in replying to this thread, I will ask that you guys keep it constructive. All tips are appreciated. And possible tweaks to not dip Grace into the OP pool with several other specs that I'm sure in time will be fixed. I know we have like 3-5 good Grace WPs and it seems that a very high skill cap is involved to making it be worth while. So I'm not asking to bring that skill cap down, but how can we make those who achieve it be rewarded rather than almost feeling less useless? Also any build/gear ideas please

The other thread was getting huge and sorta negative. So this will only be about how to improve effectiveness in a party. Gear/build options. And maybe a few minor tweaks I could suggest to the big man that would help our relevance.

Thank you!
- Dawm

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ThePollie
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Re: Warrior Priest Melee Healer - Grace (other thread was hu

Post#2 » Thu Feb 18, 2016 4:49 pm

Wrong forum section, and we already have a thread for this topic. The moderators haven't seen fit to lock it for negative comments or derailment, I'd rather not split up the discussion between multiple threads serving the same purpose.

freshour
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Re: Warrior Priest Melee Healer - Grace (other thread was hu

Post#3 » Thu Feb 18, 2016 6:04 pm

Okay I'll move this there! I didn't even know this section existed! Thanks!

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