making a fantastic guild healer betterFollow

What exactly is the point in taking divine spirit, but not improved divine spirit?

And lol@holy nova.

Actually, Mundane, the Healing Prayers talent affects PoM, which gets used a huge amount in raids. And Prayer of Healing does see usage in raids. So it's not a bad choice at all.

I'd fill out Divine Fury, move the two points from Mental Strength to Improved DS, and sacrifice one point in Holy Spec and all of Holy Reach to max Holy Conc. Indirectly, this means that you only get two points in Empowered Healing, but your PoM has 30% off (counting MA).

I read the fine print and saw that as well. Since POM is always going, I find this talent to be very useful.

Mental Agility does the same thing as Healing Prayers, and if I'm not mistaken they don't stack. In other words, Healing Prayers is a waste of 2 points. I might be wrong about this, though, so please correct me if I am.
Likewise, Holy Reach gets pretty much no use and could be better spend elsewhere

Holy Concentration is very powerful because it keeps you outside the 5SR - get a proc off that followed by Inner Focus and you can potentially spend 10-15 seconds at fill spirit regen, which is formidable even if you stack mp5.

5/5 Divine Fury is really important for any healer.
Holy Nova and Lightwell are mostly wasted points. They are of very little help while healing a raid, and should probably be taken in favor of something more powerful.

Mental Strength is, again, mostly wasted. The minor mana boost won't be worth as much as moving those points into Improved DS for a raid-wide boost to casters and healers.
Silent Resolve doesn't do much except for really bad PuGs, the kind that you should leave right away >.> If the healer has aggro and Fade can't take care of it, then something's very wrong. The points would probably be better if they were shifted into Improved Shield.

Alternative, drop everything beyond Mental Agility and spend those points on maxing Empowered Healing and CoH instead. This kind of build is more useful once you start running ZA, TK, and SSC, since Kara and Gruul don't really have a lot for raid-wide AoE damage. Keeping one ImpDS priest is good, though.

Edited, Jan 1st 2008 2:02pm by lsfreak

that's the most pure PvE raid healing build you can make. if you have another priest in your raid, have him/her spec DS & imp DS. then this priest could take 5/5 empowered healing instead.

The only thing I'd say about that build is on the Disc. side take the points out of Imp. Shield. Two reasons:

1) The talent sucks in general (at least PvE wise).
2) It sounds like you are trying to progress and believe me you will never use shield in a raid.

I'd switch those points over to Silent Resolve.


Edited, Jan 3rd 2008 2:37pm by MookusOU

Taking points out of Inspiration and Holy Concentration for Searing Light and SoL are big mistakes for raiding. Holy Concentration is extremely powerful combined with Inner Focus and cancel-casting because it keeps you at full spirit regen for 10-15 seconds, and max rank of Inspiration is very helpful (well, unless you've got a druid tank at max armor, but that's unlikely to happen in Kara). However, if you're just entering Kara, you should still be okay, but by the time you hit Prince, you'll probably want those points in.