Healadin Mana Efficiency

Now that you know the order you should heal, how to you make sure you have mana for everything? Which heals should you use when and why?

Holy Shock - This is your instant heal, but it is very mana inefficient and has a 30 second cool down. At level 60 it heals 380 health for 380 at a healing rate of 1 health per mana. Because of the low amount that it heals, its high mana cost and its cool down you should only use it as a last resort to save someone, even then it probably won't be enough.

Flash of Light - 1.5 second cast meaning it is fairly fast spell but does not heal much. At level 60 it heals 360 health for 140 mana or 240 healing per second at a healing rate of 2.6 health per mana. It is very efficient but because it heals so little it is not always usable. It will probably be your first choice as a healing spell unless you are being out damaged.

Holy Light - Long heal at 2.5 seconds that heals lots of health. At level 60 it heals 1300 health for 580 mana or 525 healing per second at a healing rate of 2.3 health per mana. It is slightly less efficient than flash of light but heals a lot more. This is the spell you will be using to heal bosses that are out damaging your flash of light heals or to catch up on heals so that you can revert to flash of light.

Lay of Hands - Varies (consumes all of your mana whether you have 0 or 6000)

The above is just a base look at healing efficiency though. There are many factors that change and enhance your healing, for example Flash of Light only benefits from 43% of your +healing while Holy Light gets 71% of it. Blessing of Light will also effect these numbers as it adds a lot to your +healing stat on that target. In most cases you will not need it on anyone other than the tank though. Use of divine favor and illumination increase the effectiveness of all of your heals as does holy power. Even when everything is added up though FoL is more mana efficient than Holy Light, but will need to be mixed with Holy Light to keep up on big damage MOBs.