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Comment by 8903

Hands down the best raid healing spell all around for paladins.

Comment by 8506

This spell is the most useful and most used spell for any paladin in end game instances. With a low cast time paladins can get off many heals in the time it takes to get off one heal of light.

Comment by 8876

I have a level 40 paladin, and i aboultlet LOVE this spell. Not only is this spell incredibly cheap (70 mana for a 120 hp heal), but by getting some halfway decent "of healing" greens, you can EASILY heal harder than a priest.

Comment by Willas9

This is THE paladin raid spell, I have topped the charts many times with this great, mana effcient spell.

Comment by Carighan

Hrm.

One should note this spell has about the highest mana-efficiency you'll find for heals, but at the same time is incredibly situational.
With a Holy-spec, your Holy Light crits so much that you get a ton of mana back. And Flash of Light heals so little it's rarely useful for actually healing someone against damage.

This leaves 2 main uses:
a) Topping someone off for little mana. Although seeing Holy Light crits more, you could try to be lucky if you're daring, and get the heal completely for free.
b) Flash-spamming a tank. Most effective if multiple Paladins are doing it, making a tank virtually invulnerably for very evenly-spread threat-increase on the Paladins. Or if you do it to support HoTs/EarthShield on the tank to make sure he can't die.

It's a bit over-situational, but not bad at all. Just learn when to use it over Holy Light.

Comment by shadowaninja

As a holy pally, you'll use this alot, you should only use holy light when there is a lot of damage and your under pressure to heal alot. Right now (at lvl 70) my flash of light can crit for 1.9k, thats 10 times the mana cost, can you say that about holy light? If use use just holy light you'll be out of mana in about 10 casts, assuming you get a crit or two.

Comment by Caffi

Another thing to remember about flash of light VS holy light:
Flash of light is usually for spamming the tank with heals, and you keep him healthy all the time, or at least most of the time.
Holy light heals a lot, and you have to wait for him to be a little hurt, if then all of a sudden he gets a good hit from the enemy, you may be too late. OR if you start casting it, and someone else saw the tank being hurt, they may be casting a big heal as well, causing your or their mana to be wasted.

Comment by 121126

And if FoL7 wasn't efficient enough already, you could spam FoL6. It has nearly the same coefficient as FoL7 (at level 70, 42.24% compared to 42.86%), so regardless of how much +healing you have, FoL6 will only heal ~120 less than rank 7.

So if your FoL7 heals for 1300's, FoL6 will heal about 1200; maybe 10% less HP/sec, but for 22% less mana.

Not that Paladins run OOM due to FoL anyway, but if you really want to maximize your efficiency, it's an option to keep in mind. Could help if you're assigned to heal when not Holy-spec'ed, for example..

Comment by 114186

Every time you FoL god kills a priest, i hope your happy D:

Comment by DoomFist

Is that copied and pasted from wowwiki.com?

Comment by 195651

yeah except that druids get a beastly heal that is a flash for them at 80. barely more mana, and over 2x the healin. and a bonus if they have their hots on.

Comment by 142038

Yup - Nourish

If a paladin and druid has the same base mana set at 100, nourish will heal for (1883+2187)/2 = 2035 to 2442 hp (*1.2) using 9 mana.

Flash of light will heal for (785 + 879)/2 = 832 hp using 7 mana.

Druid "mana" to heal rating is therefore:

worst case scenario, eg no hots: 2035/9 = 226 hp/mana
best case scenario, eg hot applied: 2442/9 = 271 hp/mana

Whereas the paladin's is:

832/7 = 119 hp/mana

Worst case scenario, the druid version of the fast 1.5 second heal
is healing for 90-128 PERCENT more...

Comment by 193371

I have just done a simple test to see exactly how much more mana efficient FoL is than HL. Assume that 100% of your bonus healing goes towards your spells. If you have 2000 bonus healing, then you would heal at least 2500 health. Also, assume that the tank has BoL on, increasing it to 2685 healed, not even counting the crits from the spell, or the talent points spent in the holy tree. Divide that number by 180, and you get approx. 15 H per M. As for HL, you would heal 5080 health. Now divide that number by 840, and you get approx. 6 H per M. so FoL is 2.5 times more efficient, and has a cast time thats 1.66 faster than HL. There you go, FoL = best heal in the game

Comment by 193371

as of WOTLK, they made it more fair making the spell cost 8% of your base mana, which doesnt include the +Int effects from items. this kinda sux for pally b/c its not a consistent mana cost, it changes depending on your base mana. This will be costly in lower levels, due to not too many +INT items for pally, most items lvl 20-30 focus on strength/stamina but at higher levels it will prove to be very mana efficient. At lv 70, it works out to around 90 mana, which is amazing IMO.

Comment by kgurnhill

When im healing this spell is my main healing spell (aswell as Holy Shock)
I usually just Spam this and a holy shock every now and then when tank gets a lil low on hp, if FoL isnt gonna cut it ill use Holy Light :)

I have 1.8k Healing SP and this spell heals for 3.4 - 3.6k per heal (6.9k Crit - Highest ive done) :)

All in all an awesome spell :D

Edit: Corrected Some Spelling Mistakes :)

Comment by 263015

No longer our main heal, flash of light has become the Paladin's emergency heal for when the tank or another party member is losing health too quickly to get off a good holy light or divine light. It's great for this purpose, but don't try using it all the time, you'll find yourself going oom very quickly.

Comment by Pythagoreant

This is paladins' quick, expensive heal.

In Cataclysm (as of 4.0.3a), all healers have the following types of heals:

Quick, expensive heal: 1.5 second cast, very high mana cost, high heal value.
Inexpensive heal: 3 second cast (usually talented to 2.5), very low mana cost, low heal value.
Slow, big heal: 3 second cast (usually talented to 2.5), high mana cost, very high heal value.

The mana costs differ very slightly between classes. Two of them have the quick heal cost more than the big heal.

Priest
Quick - Flash Heal
Cheap - Heal
Big - Greater Heal

Shaman
Quick - Healing Surge
Cheap - Healing Wave
Big - Greater Healing Wave

Druid
Quick - Regrowth
Cheap - Nourish
Big - Healing Touch

Paladin
Quick - Flash of Light
Cheap - Holy Light
Big - Divine Light

Comment by Jessrond

Definitely an emergency heal above all else. It heals for more than Holy Light but a lot more mana and with the quick cast time if you're relying on this you'll burn mana.

Comment by guatafu

If anyone doubted paladin being the newbie class; they are the only ones that have "tips" on their tooltips:
"A quick, expensive heal"
"Good for periods of heavy damage"

Comment by 577267

With 2/2 Points in Infusion of Light your holy shock crits make this spell instant cast, giving Paladins one of the few options for healing on the run, or in pvp a way to avoid getting interrupted and locked out.

Comment by Jessrond

The only time I would advise anyone to use Flash of Light is when you have Infusion of Light and someone needs a quick heal... that instant cast is very useful.

Otherwise, not really worth using. Most of the situations where you'd think about using it, a holy shock or divine light is the better choice.

Comment by Ronark

In Mists of Pandaria, Flash of Light is the only baseline heal- Divine Light, Holy Light, and Holy Radiance are exclusive to Holy spec paladins.

Comment by Thottbot

It's the most efficient heal in the game. Get +400 healing gear, slap on blessing of light. You get a 35 mana heal that recovers 340 health.

Comment by Thottbot

If u use holy light, u will run out of mana very quickly unless decked out in +int gear. This heals about 10% health, so just use this to keep a players health up. Use holy light when a players health will take a lot of FoL's to get up. I can be very mana efficent and be a good healer at the same time with this spell.

Comment by Thottbot

On lower levels this doesn't seem useful to me. Although with some huge amount of +healing, like 1000, and the lvl 58 variant of this spell makes things way more interesting.

Comment by Thottbot

Being a healadin at 70 with a lot of plus healing gear i use this spell all the time, if the tank is good at holding aggro i can simply cast this spell on them constantly and pretty much have no worries. Its just a great spell for keeping everyones health up.

Comment by Thottbot

If you have a 29 paladin healer twink you can spam this for 3 or so minutes straight.

Comment by Thottbot

When i run Kara We usually have a pally healing tank and a resto shaman healing melle and ranged dps im usually that shaman i can spam rank 1 chain light which heals more than my rank 5 lesser healing and costs less mana too i can spam that for a good 6 minutes before i have to drop a Mana tide totem down

Comment by Thottbot

ok, i may not be a 70 whatever but i know the jist of whats going on and whats needed.. to say that you have ONLY pallies in a raid,i would say i dont believe you raid at all. To have only 1 class would make the raid extremely difficult, i would much rather have a Druid, Priest, ES shaman, and SPriest, then have just all paladins. Yes! you never run out of mana! but you are missing key things that help out, such as the armor bonus from MoTW + attributes, the Druids HoT's that overheal, the priests ability to bubble ( yeah, i said it bubble, it may not seem much, but having a shield there to COMPLETELY take the blow instead of the tank, thats good to have on him whenever possible) + ability to cast Renew and Prayer of Mending. TO have JUST paladins is just rediculous, if i ever saw that i would just leave, becuase what happenes if a tier drops and its for druid? or priest? or shaman? how stupid will you feel knowing that someone could of had a certian piece of armor but your ignorance in believing that paladins are gods has clouded your mind.

but other then that this ability is great to heal for 5 man instances, i find i never have to drink at lv 49, becuase of this nifty spell ive been doing isntances that are 5lvs higher than me becuase of how good of healing it is + my reputation as the only lv49 clothy paladin on the server :), yeah, go ahead and make fun of me like all the other people do, but spamming rank 2 flash of light is not going to get very much aggro

here is how a paladin heals
1: bind flash of light to 1
2: bind every other key to holy light
3: in case of emergency mash face on keyboard

Comment by Thottbot

oh my god that is the most freaking hilarious thing ive ever seen (short of South park WoW episode of course)... haha mash face on keyboard HAHAHA i almost crapped myself when i saw that. o yea and i love this spell for slightly higher lvl groups than the instance just because its so insanely efficient and fast.and i know some of u will be like but it doesnt heal much blah, blah, blah,but cmon think about how many holy lights u can cast VS. flash of light.I heal great with this with almost all retri gear 8)

Comment by Thottbot

Call me a noob, but i don´t get it! as paladin lvl 38 i got flash of light at lvl 3 and holy light at lvl 6! in 10 sec i can cast (if not disturbed) 6X flashOL (1,5 sec) or 4X holy light (2,5 sec), flash is aprox 160X6=960 heal, and holy is 750x4=3000 heal! so why, WHY should i use flash?

not saying your wrong, just that i don´t get it. :-)

ps. by spending a few talents points holy light only takes 2 sec. only making this better...

Comment by Thottbot

The best part about this spell is its mana cost .

This spell is very mana efficient. I remember when i was level 19 pally and saw a 20 pally spam heal and not lose any mana. I was like, wth? my heal takes up 1/5 of my mana!

but then once i got Flash Heal, I could spam it and not see any difference in my mana bar. Consider 35 mana, and @ lvl 20, a healadin generally has about 1K-1.5K mana (non-twinked). This means, without any talents reducing the mana cost, someone could continuously spam this spell 35 times and go oom, not including Spirit's regeneration.
Whenever i get a new healing spell/rank I test out all of my heals on myself in front of the trainer and see first which is the most mana efficient, and secondly which is the most hps (health per second).

Overall, @ lvl 20 my Flash of Light is much much more mana efficient, while my Holy Light is a bit more health per second.
So, I choose FoL.

Comment by Allakhazam

Just like damage spells... The longer the cast the more damage. The shorter the cast the less damage it does.

Comment by Allakhazam

this spell would be handy in the case when you have low mana and have little time to cast a healing spell. they made it so it heals less so it would balance the game out so this faster one doesnt heal more in a shorter time than the one that heals more for a longer casting time

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Flash of Light

Flash of Light	Level 85

31% of base mana	40 yd range

Instant

A quick, expensive heal that heals a friendly target for 7024.

Spell Details

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School

Holy

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Dispel type

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GCD category

Normal

Cost

31% of base mana

Range

40 yards (Long)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect

Heal
Value: 81 (SP mod: 0.863)
PVP Multiplier: 1

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Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Doesn't Reset Swing Timer if Instant
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Flash of Light

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