Miele
Lord Nagafen Raider
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Premise: I'm sick of WoD, so I'm playing mostly on beta and not a lot to be honest, because I don't want to see everything before release, just getting an idea of classes at 100 and 101 (at 101 all classes stats scale a lot, there is a big difference compared to 100).Disc feels not very useful right now for anything but incidental healing. Maybe artifact/L110/gear will significantly change that but I'm not sure where this whole 'dps healer' thing came from other than a couple abilities do both things?
I know it's been said before but there's basically two options for DISC: it's either extremely powerful and basically mandatory because it does better than 1/2 dps 1/2 hps of other classes OR it will be completely useless because it fails to cover the output for any content anyone wants to do.
Discipline is... peculiar. First thing first, it's way better than shadow to level, believe it or not, but you do similar dps and take no real damage and have zero downtime, shadow is crippled by the fact that voidform is almost useless when questing. Now, atonement as it is now, is a shitty mechanic, because you pretty much cannot play efficiently in groups without macros or a healing UI mod (Clique I think) that lets you cast that fucking Plea without switching target. I prefer macros, that's the way I always played healers with nukes and offensive abilities.
My macros basically check the target of target and if it's hostile and not dead, cast something on that, so I can keep my tank or dps in target and assist without swapping. I'm sure everyone has their own method, but without shit like this, you are going to suck at discipline so much, you'll want to put on fire the class and possibly your pc. I repeat, with the standard UI and without macro, Discipline is currently aids and cancer tied together.
Once you accept this, then it can become smooth to play, you sort of get into a rythm, keep atonement on the tank at all times, spread the love to others when possible, throw out damage, watch your mana, swear a lot when emergency heals are required, make the best use of talents, etc.
If you try holy priest, which is good, but boring as fuck, discipline is a lot more fun, but it is a lot more work, you can't really sleepwalk into a dungeon as it requires a lot of micro management.
Give it a try, the artifact is also very cool.