Tuesday Raiding

Our guild had a reasonably productive Tuesday. We started out with an Onyxia run where I picked up the Halo of Transcendence, and hit up Blackwing Lair for Razorgore and Vael before calling it a night.

I wasn't especially keen on getting the Halo, since it isn't too much better for me as a Shadow Priest than the Circlet of Prophecy. If I remember correctly, it costs me about 12 damage and only adds 30 healing, 2 spirit, and 10 frost protection. It's a concession to the needs of raiding, really -- I tend to spend a lot of time in BWL outside of shadowform. So to be an effective healer I'll need to work up to the 3/8 Transcendence bonus, 15% mana regeneration while casting that stacks with Meditation (another 15% regen while casting.)

I probably also need to get into the habit of buying a lot more Major Mana Potions. Speccing shadow means I have a shallower mana pool to begin with than the other healers, regardless of whether I'm doing damage or healing and trying to keep shadow weaving up I tend to bottom out and having pots at the ready is better than begging for an innervate.

I'm getting better at keeping Shadow Weaving up using Shadow Word: Pain rank 1 when I'm not doing damage. The new feature where you can see the health and mana of your target's target helps some, in the Vael fight it was also me getting into a groove of shielding a caster or myself, throwing a prayer of healing, then putting a couple of shadows on instead of trying to get all five at once.