Flash Heal

Flash Heal
Flash Heal Priest ability 40 yd range 28% of base mana global cooldown 1.5 sec cast Heals a friendly target for X.
Properties
Class	Priest
School	Holy
Cooldown	Global
Improvements	[Test of Faith], [Twin Disciplines], Inspiration, [Empowered Healing], [Borrowed Time], [Surge of Light], [Serendipity], [Renewed Hope], [Grace]

[[Category:priest abilities]][[Category:priest abilities]]

Sometimes, a small shard of light is all that is needed to keep the darkness at bay.

Flash Heal is a priest's fast single-target healing spell. It sacrifices mana efficiency in order to land a heal faster on someone who might not live to receive a spell with a longer cast time. The stated design intent for Flash Heal is as a quick but expensive stabilization heal, as opposed to the slow but inexpensive [Greater Heal] and the even slower and more affordable [Heal].

Numbers

Flash Heal is available at level 3 for 57.

Level	Healing
3	152 to 176
30	328 to 380
60	2234 to 2596
70	3676 to 4272
80	5617 to 6527
85	6273 to 7289

Flash Heal has a spell power coefficient of 60.4% per target.

Notes

• Flash Heal excels in situations where speed, not mana efficiency, is the prime concern. Conversely, due to its poor mana efficiency, it is best used only in these situations. Wherever possible, more affordable options such as [Greater Heal] or [Heal] are preferable.
• Spamming Flash Heal makes for extremely potent healing, but drains mana at a very fast rate.
• Flash Heal and [Greater Heal] have a very similar mana cost. Flash Heal heals more quickly and has a shorter cast time, while Greater Heal heals for a larger amount and is far more mana efficient. Therefore, while Flash Heal may be preferable in critical or intensive situations, Greater Heal is the better option in terms of preserving mana.
• A chain of 2xFlash Heal followed by a [Serendipity]-empowered [Greater Heal] yields the highest possible single target HPS of a priest.
• Flash Heal is the direct healing spell that benefits the most from talents and has the highest synergy with other talents and spells. Ironically, it's also a spell that must be cast relatively sparingly due to its high cost.
• The spell has a higher single target throughput than [Binding Heal], but yields far less potential healing across the two targets, at the same mana cost.

Improvements

Talents

• [Test of Faith], increases healing done on targets below 50% health by 4/8/12%.
• [Twin Disciplines] increases healing done by 2/4/6%.
• [Empowered Healing] increases the healing done by your Flash Heal by 5/10/15%.
• Benefits from [Borrowed Time].
• [Surge of Light] procs cause your next Flash Heal to be instant cast and cost no mana. Flash Heal is also one of the spells that can proc Surge of Light.
• Flash Heal will proc [Serendipity] and [Grace] and if achieving a critical effect will proc Inspiration.
• [Renewed Hope] increases Flash Heal's critical effect chance.

Glyphs

• [Glyph of Flash Heal] increases the critical effect chance of your Flash Heal on targets at or below 25% health by 10%.

Patch changes

• Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Thoughput increased by another 20%
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now learned at level 3, thoughput massively increased
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB