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This Friday, July 29, 2011, Rawrcast is hosting a Healing Round Table Special Episode. To prepare for what is shaping up to be our biggest round table yet, take a minute to get to know the guests who will be seated around the virtual table with today’s Daily Fan.

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	Derevka: Healing Priest Derevka is a mainly Disc priest in the guild Edge(US-Garona), currently ranked in a top #100 US. Recently retired from TalesofaPriest.com but can still be caught tweeting about progression raiding and a regular poster on the Plus Heal forums. Twitter.com/derevka www.PlusHeal.com
	Vixsin: Healing Shaman Our healing shaman,Vixsin is in Pie Chart (US-Firetree) currently ranked #19 in the US. Writer for Life in Group 5, Vixsin is a go to source for raiding, great insight on patches seen from a shamans point of view and anything else that crosses Vixsin’s mind. Life in Group 5 twitter.com/Vixsin_LiG5
	Eade: Holy Pally Eade is a holy pally in the guild AIE’s raid group, If Looks Could Kill. He is also one of the host of the new healing oriented podcast, My Epic Heals. Along with the podcasts, you can catch his own views on healing pallies at My Pally Heals. My Epic Heals Podcast My Pally Heals Blog
	Foofy: Resto Druid Foofy is a long time friend of the show and long time progression raider as a Resto Druid. Currently in a top #200 guild in the US, Crisp. Foofy has her hand in a lot of pots, including moderator at Moonkin Repository, video creator and blogger. Go give her a read, listen and watch! Moonkin Repository Foofy’s Youtube Foofy’s Cupcake Blog

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As mentioned on Episode 118, we’re proud to feature the following guest post by Derevka. Make sure to leave a comment, questions or opinion on the matter, as we will address this and other healing topics during the upcoming Healing Round Table! – Stomp

With 4.2 being out for a week now, it seems only fitting to recap what the impact has been to Priests. You might laugh at that concept, since at first glance there was… well…. no changes really made to the priest class. However there is a significant change made to how critical heals operate, and that affects priests substantially. Lets take a high level view of what has happened for Priests in 4.2…

The advent of critical heals now hitting for 200% of the heal, whereas in the past it hit for only 150%, is a huge boon for priests. Yes, of course, many healers have talents that provide some form of bonus or benefit when they critically heal (e.g. Ancestral Awakening, Living Seed). However, this affects Discipline Priests (arguably the most) just by pure nature as to how absorbs work.

Not only are your crits bigger, the Divine Aegis shields they provide are bigger… 33% bigger.

Disc Priests can now spec and gear really one of two ways in 4.2. The first is to gear for Raid Healing and Shielding (much like how they have been doing in Tier 11– pre shielding big AOE damage, and utilizing Prayer of Healing/Divine Aegis to heal up and mitigate consistent “aura like” damage). The second is Tank Healing. With a priest being able to consistently create Divine Aegis shields, cast Power Word: Shields, and bomb Greater Heals and Penances on your tank, Discipline can provide amazing single target throughput and utility to your raid. Read more…

Special thanks to Derevka and Ava from Tales of a Priest! We had a great time chatting about all things healing on this week’s Priest Healing Round Table. The show is now available for download, via iTunes, RSS feed, or listen to it here!

Topics discussed:

• Priest Guide to Cataclysm Class Changes on Wowhead.com
• Ava’s blog on Horror-Extreme
• Ava and Deverka’s Guild: Dark Nemisis on US Bloodhoof