NEW PATCH! HOW ARE YOU ALL COPING?Follow

Coping? All the bosses are now on easy mode...

Not sure I like that much, but I love the raid-wide buffs and the new circle of healing.

Still working on getting my UI back into perfect shape (Using a modified version of Caith's UI) and adjusting to the changes my Shadow Priest is now dealing with. Still, looks to be a decent patch with few if any things broken with my class.

Got my UI back now; all add-ons finally working. I did a couple dailies and nothing about solo's really changed. But I was IDS before and I'm going full Holy now so I'll get a chance to test my shiny new CoH in BT tonight. :)

im now 66, and i took the chance to start using the basis of my 80 build

went from 17-XX-5 to 44-xx-0

<3 DIVINE AEGIS :)

healed a man tombs right away at 65, and did a lot better with it as divine aegis, then i did as mostly holy

<3 new disc

I am loving the new disc also.

I am able to heal very well. Penance coupled with divine aegis is quite nice. Plus the bonuses to pw:shield from talents and the glyph make shielding a LOT more useful for pve healing.

I know raids are nerfed and kara has always been easy but I did solo heal kara all the way to shade until I had to go.

Yay disc!

I was assigned to raid healing in BT last night and CoH was pretty much the only button I pushed. I can't believe they took the six second cooldown off this thing - it's incredibly easy now to keep the raid topped off all the time. Unless they nerf it, shaman will have nothing on priests when it comes to group-wide healing.

Granted, it's kind of hard to tell with everything on easy mode, but still. I want CoH to be my valentine.

I've always heard people brag about Disc as a tree for both leveling, group support and most importantly, PvP. Personally, I find myself having a decent understanding of the Shadow Tree. I have a... well, novice understanding of the Holy tree. Enough to avoid the worst pitfalls should I decide to specc Holy at some point.

The Disc tree? It frightens me. It confuses me in new and horrible ways. I look at it and instantly break into cold sweat, fearing the implications behind every icon. Mousing over one to read the description makes me whimper softly as the enormous group synergistic consequences looms on the horizon. I start breathing heavily and quickly alt-tab into some other safe window, hiding the c'thulhian geometry and sadistic imagery.

In short, I don't understand it. This is actually quite new to me. Any other class, any other talent tree, I can pretty much reason my way through. I can usually just sit down and play with a talent calculator, and usually end up very close to any cookie cutter provided by experienced players. But not Disc. For some reason the entire tree defies me. It's purpose eludes me.

So, would anyone with experience with both the Priest class and the Disc tree bother writing up a little guide for it? Shadow and Holy is easy. It's annihilating the mind of your enemy or patching the wounds of your allies. Disc however... it's harder to figure out.

When I see the circle of healing glyph at the AH, it will be mine....

Everybody now seems able to 2-shot everybody else. This seems to have pretty much killed healing in PvP. I had a 5K greater heal on a warrior earlier only for him to die 0,5 a second later; there were only 2 others bursting him. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the patch yet. Let me write down all my experiences/feelings in a list.

-Healing in PvP seems to have died. PvP on my rogue is fairly enjoyable thanks to my abillity to own pretty much anything.
-PvP on my priest is now horrible. Granted, I've specced holy, but still. Pretty much EVERY class 3-shots me, and healing is useless... I'm forced to use greater heal since Renew is useless (people die in 3/4/5 seconds), and the 1-2K hit points shield/flash heal adds disappear within a second after casting the spell. On a sidenote, I really like the new holy 51-pointer for PvP.
-I've got the feeling both Lightwell and Guardian Spirit COULD have been such good spells that holy priest PvP would actually have been viable if the DPS-boost hadn't occurred.
-WOUND POISON SCREWS ME OVER! I have no way to remove it, and any time my target is fighting a rogue it sticks on him like a wart plaster. I can barely outheal a rogue when left alone. With Wound Poison on my target a rogue wÃll kill my target within 5/6 seconds regardless of if I'm healing or not.
-The ONLY class so far that I haven't managed to 3-shot on my rogue was a restodruid. He actually got close to getting away; died in the end though.
-ALL forms of PvE are easy mode now, as far as I've noticed. I ran CoT:Durnholde (non-heroic) once and I'm fairly sure me and the retardin in our party could've 2-manned the place - and the retardin wasn't even 70 yet (67 iirc).

Blizzard seems to have turned PvE into kindergarten and PvP into Unreal Tournament. I *think* (though I'm not sure yet) I don't like the change in the end. I'm very glad we got rid of the extremely boring 10-minute-fights-where-you-burn-the-DPS-down-and-wait-for-the-healer-to-run-oom type of PvP. On the other hand, they've taken it too far. The game now pretty much IS Unreal Tournament, and bursting your trinket as soon as possible so you can 3-shot your enemy before he 3-shots you is the way to go. As for PvE, I'm somewhat glad that it is now easier for types like me to see more high end raid content, though I assume that will return back to the normal difficulty at 80.

So basically;
Glad to be gone of the boring everlasting healing-pwns-everything PvP style. Not glad about the fact that all 'skills' I had in that system are now worthless since it's all about 3-shotting eachother. Semi-glad that PvE was made easier.

If it's a pre-outlands quest there's a very big chance it has a 'chance to fail when used by characters over level 60', like half the old-world content.

On a sidenote, I'd have to hand out the potions. If a rogue jumps me I die, no questions asked, I can't live trough that. It's my healing targets on which Wound Poison is so deadly.

if this is unreal tournament... my rogue is a shock rifle :D

and my disc pri is the shield gun XD

now we just need translocators... that would rock my face

Never mind, post is useless now.

Edited, Oct 20th 2008 4:31pm by Mozared