Busy weekend, Halloween and all, not much sleep, not much wow time, but I found enough to do a Word of Glory testing regarding Holy Power.
The Question:
It has been said on very serious sources (like elitist jerks) that Word of Glory healing power is exponential regarding the number of stack of Holy Power you have, hence asking us to only use it with 3 stacks if you don't want to lose serious hps.
So I did two batches of tests, one with a nooby lvl 13 Holy Paladin created for the occasion, and one with my lvl 80 ilevel 264 main. Each character used WoG 5 times with each 1, 2 and 3 HP stack, and I compared the results between each other, and between character to see the influence of the spellpower coefficient part of WoG.
The Result:
WoG healing of mostly linear in the number of HP stack. Which means that a one HP stack WoG is roughly 1/3 of the healing of a 3 HP stack WoG. It seems that with more than 3K spellpower stacking is slightly more interesting, but at low level you really see WoG being linear in the number of HP stacks.
The Conclusion:
So you can use WoG with 1 or 2 Holy Power, the healing is not exponential. Though remember using WoG is a use of a global cooldown too, so a slight loss of hps in the end. But considering it is not exponential, you should not refrain from using it in emergencies when moving, even if not at full Holy Power.
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Ok....but there's the Eternal Glory proc.
ReplyDeleteIts better to get a free 3HoPo WoG ^ ^
That is very true, and I love these procs. The idea is still that in any urgency, you should use WoG because even with only 1 HP stack it will heal for about half a Holy Shock.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't miss that if you get an Eternal Glory proc you can then add to your HP stack with a Holy Shock and recast a WoG if needed.
In a regular rotation we should always wait for the 3 HP WoG, but I was trying to not use it as an urgency heal, I don't refrain anymore now.