Healing in 3.2: Flash of Light

 

Flash of Light is our most mana efficient direct healing spell.

At level 80 Flash of Light has a base cast time of 1.5 seconds, costs 307 mana to cast and heals 785 to 879 plus an amount based on your spell power plus other effects brought by talents, certain items and buffs brought by other players.

While it's able to keep most people up in a variety of situations, quite often it's insufficient without using Holy Light to keep a tank up, particularly in hard modes.

If you're a Flash of Light spammer, this spell's co-efficient makes it quite good to stack Spell Power instead of intellect. This will make Flash of Light more competitive and more usable. However, this will really hurt your ability to cast a lot of Holy Light's, needed to do a lot of hard mode raids.

 

Flash of Light Heal over time:

The Flash of Light in conjunction with Sacred Shield gives you a heal over time also called Flash of Light.

Each time you cast Flash of Light on a target that has the Sacred Shield target, it will place a heal over time on that target. Each second for the next 12 seconds, it will heal for 1/12 of the healing that the last Flash of Light did.

Every time you cast Flash of Light on that target again, it will refresh the flash of light hot, again using the amount of the latest FOL heal. If your Flash of Light crits, it will use the total amount (including the crit) to calculate the heal over time amount.

There can be multiple Flash of Light heal over time on the same target (coming from different Paladins).

If you cast multiple Flash of Light's on the same target, you will not get multiple Flash of Light Heal over Time's. They do not stack from the same paladin.

 

Healing Amounts:

There are 3 buff's that adjust the way that you calculate your heal strength based on your Spell Power. That is the Healing Light talent, the Divinity talent and Improved Devotion Aura / Tree of Life Aura (These don't stack).

So you can see what you can expect from your own Flash of Light's, plug in your spell power and Haste and then click on Submit.

Enter Your Spell Power:

Enter Your Haste Rating:

 

Flash of Light healing with no talents. Spellpower (2300):

Min heal	Max Heal	Min Crit	Max Crit
3121.8	3215.8	4682.7	4823.7

 

The first line is heals per mana with no Glyph of Seal of Wisdom active and the second is with it active.

Heals per Mana Min heal	Heals per Mana Max Heal	Heals per Mana Min Crit	Heals per Mana Max Crit
10.17	10.47	15.25	15.71
10.7	11.03	16.06	16.54

 

The first line is heals per second without raid buffs and the second is with raid buffs (Judgements of the pure, Ret Aura/Moonkin Aura, Wrath of Air Totem) active.

Heals per Second Min heal	Heals per Second Max Heal	Heals per Second Min Crit	Heals per Second Max Crit
2509.63	2585.19	3764.44	3877.79
3121.29	3215.27	4681.93	4822.9

 

Flash of Light healing with Healing Light. Spellpower (2300):

Min heal	Max Heal	Min Crit	Max Crit
3496.42	3601.7	5244.62	5402.54

 

The first line is heals per mana with no Glyph of Seal of Wisdom active and the second is with it active.

Heals per Mana Min heal	Heals per Mana Max Heal	Heals per Mana Min Crit	Heals per Mana Max Crit
11.39	11.73	17.08	17.6
11.99	12.35	17.98	18.52

 

The first line is heals per second without raid buffs and the second is with raid buffs (Judgements of the pure, Ret Aura/Moonkin Aura, Wrath of Air Totem) active.

Heals per Second Min heal	Heals per Second Max Heal	Heals per Second Min Crit	Heals per Second Max Crit
2810.78	2895.42	4216.17	4343.12
3495.84	3601.1	5243.76	5401.65

 

Flash of Light healing with Healing Light & Divinity. Spellpower (2300):

Min heal	Max Heal	Min Crit	Max Crit
3671.24	3781.78	5506.86	5672.67

 

The first line is heals per mana with no Glyph of Seal of Wisdom active and the second is with it active.

Heals per Mana Min heal	Heals per Mana Max Heal	Heals per Mana Min Crit	Heals per Mana Max Crit
11.96	12.32	17.94	18.48
12.59	12.97	18.88	19.45

 

The first line is heals per second without raid buffs and the second is with raid buffs (Judgements of the pure, Ret Aura/Moonkin Aura, Wrath of Air Totem) active.

Heals per Second Min heal	Heals per Second Max Heal	Heals per Second Min Crit	Heals per Second Max Crit
2951.32	3040.19	4426.98	4560.28
3670.63	3781.16	5505.95	5671.74

 

Flash of Light healing with Healing Light and Improved Devotion Aura Talented or Tree of Life Aura. Spellpower (2300):

Min heal	Max Heal	Min Crit	Max Crit
3706.2	3817.8	5559.3	5726.7

 

The first line is heals per mana with no Glyph of Seal of Wisdom active and the second is with it active.

Heals per Mana Min heal	Heals per Mana Max Heal	Heals per Mana Min Crit	Heals per Mana Max Crit
12.07	12.44	18.11	18.65
12.71	13.09	19.06	19.64

 

The first line is heals per second without raid buffs and the second is with raid buffs (Judgements of the pure, Ret Aura/Moonkin Aura, Wrath of Air Totem) active.

Heals per Second Min heal	Heals per Second Max Heal	Heals per Second Min Crit	Heals per Second Max Crit
2979.43	3069.14	4469.14	4603.71
3705.59	3817.17	5558.38	5725.75

 

Flash of Light healing with Healing Light and 2/5 Divinity and Improved Devotion Aura Talented or Tree of Life Aura. Spellpower (2300):

Min heal	Max Heal	Min Crit	Max Crit
3780.32	3894.15	5670.49	5841.23

 

The first line is heals per mana with no Glyph of Seal of Wisdom active and the second is with it active.

Heals per Mana Min heal	Heals per Mana Max Heal	Heals per Mana Min Crit	Heals per Mana Max Crit
12.31	12.68	18.47	19.03
12.96	13.35	19.44	20.03

 

The first line is heals per second without raid buffs and the second is with raid buffs (Judgements of the pure, Ret Aura/Moonkin Aura, Wrath of Air Totem) active.

Heals per Second Min heal	Heals per Second Max Heal	Heals per Second Min Crit	Heals per Second Max Crit
3039.02	3130.52	4558.53	4695.79
3779.7	3893.51	5669.55	5840.27

 

Flash of Light healing with Healing Light and 5/5 Divinity and Improved Devotion Aura Talented or Tree of Life Aura. Spellpower (2300):

Min heal	Max Heal	Min Crit	Max Crit
3891.51	4008.69	5837.27	6013.03

 

The first line is heals per mana with no Glyph of Seal of Wisdom active and the second is with it active.

Heals per Mana Min heal	Heals per Mana Max Heal	Heals per Mana Min Crit	Heals per Mana Max Crit
12.68	13.06	19.01	19.59
13.34	13.74	20.01	20.62

 

The first line is heals per second without raid buffs and the second is with raid buffs (Judgements of the pure, Ret Aura/Moonkin Aura, Wrath of Air Totem) active.

Heals per Second Min heal	Heals per Second Max Heal	Heals per Second Min Crit	Heals per Second Max Crit
3128.4	3222.6	4692.6	4833.9
3890.87	4008.03	5836.3	6012.04

 

 

The Soft Haste Cap:

You'll want your haste to be 676 while fully raid buffed with Judgements of the Pure active to get your Flash of Light casting to 1 second. Any more than 676 haste and it'll be wasted.

 

Flash of Light heal over time in Grid:

It's quite helpful to have the Flash of Light heal over time set to show in Grid.

Program into your "Buff" area "Flash of Light" and activate it on your grid to where you want it. I personally prefer it to have a white dot on the bottom.

I haven't found a mod that helps you track the Flash of Light heal over time yet. If anyone knows of one that works well, let me know so I can include it.

Edit: A few people have given me the names of some mods that track flash of light. While I haven't tried these yet, they may be well worth trying out:

ForteXorcist
VuhDo (Similar to Healbot)
Classtimer

Thank you to Brian and Valthred for pointing these out.

 

Flash of Light Mouse over Macro:

#showtooltip Flash of Light
/use [combat]13
/use [combat]14
/cast [target=mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][target=targettarget,help,nodead] Flash of Light
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()

 

Flash of Light Macro for Healbot:

#showtooltip Flash of Light
/use [combat]13
/use [combat]14
/cast [target=hbtarget] Flash of Light
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()

 

Glyph of Flash of Light:

The Glyph of Flash of Light is fairly ordinary for usage of Most Holy Paladin's. It increases the crit chance of your Flash of Light by 5%.

There is a healing style that some Holy Paladin's in high end guilds are using. If this is the case, you should have 675 haste (perhaps more) and be gemming for spell power and crit. Especially important for this spec, none of your gear should have mp5 on it.

This is a style that most Holy Paladin's, especially inexperienced ones should stay away from.

 

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