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That build is actually very interesting Dadanox. One change I'd make though, is drop Martyrdom and Absolution for Holy Specialization. Since you've got a crit proc, you'll really notice that 5% crit. I've never really found myself actually noticing Absolution, and Martyrdom is really a PvP talent. But yes, I do like the main idea, specially not picking up Divine Fury and grabbing Aspiration in its place.

Edit: Damn you Dadanox, I'm actually on the brink of respeccing yet again; I think I prefer something like 60/11/0 more than what I'm on now. Currently I've conjured up this, but I'll play with it some more when I finish my dinner.

Edited, Nov 29th 2008 6:43pm by Mozared

Exactly! That's how I saw your spec from the minute I viewed it; you effectively replaced Divine Fury with Aspiration so you can replace Greater Heal with Penance. It might not seem like a huge change, but if you keep in mind that Divine Fury is 5 points and Aspiration is 2, it makes a serious difference. And thank you for bringing it up, I've just conjured up this and will probably spec to it in a minute.

That's exactly the thing. For me as a disc priest, it's funny to hear somebody say "I didn't even drop below 20%!". It's next to impossible for me to even drop below 50%. 80% when not facing bosses, but pretty much 90% of the time I'm in between 90% and 100%. Inside the 5 second rule, I regenerate 1% of my total mana every 4 seconds. Outside of the 5 second rule, I regenerate 1% of my total mana every 2 seconds. And that's when I'm not even wearing my +spirit staff and pants!

Yes yes!
The diversity of a healing priest is cool (maybe even bring some more people over to healing!). I love it and look forward to trying more things along the way.

LOL! I now HAVE to try out the Disc heal. 80% - 90% mana all the time? Like a NFL player never breaking a sweat!

Thanks again. Look forward to future posts.

This might be a pointless question, but I suppose you have to state the obvious:

Do you have Meditation?

Does someone have prime #'s for lvl 80? stats and +heal, mp5 and such?

I think that spellpower figure looks low. But then I'm Holy and depend on bigger heals. I've got 1400 sp right now and I'm nowhere near geared for heroics.

Probably having this marked up as a healing guide for me.

Levelling a shadow priest till 70 and respec when i hit woltk so i can 'start' learning how to level.

Trust me, i know nuts about healing. Feels nice to be top dps in my friends in the guild so i try to dabble with healing.

Since the 2 guys here are having fun trading pointers, its nice to see people having xchange pointers without the actual flaming.

I will try out bt i will be a nut in healing cuz im trying to level my dwarfie up. current level 54, working my *** for 3 days to this level bt im not that hardcore lol to put it all up to 70 at 3 days. Keep it up.

You guys will have me constantly read up on this thread on healing. After days of research, finally feel that disc priest is no more the pvp healer i know in the past. Still thats what is on paper. Need experience it myself.

Just to confirm what i read, cuz im still reading on healing priest that discipline priest is currently levelling healing build at 70 and still heals fine for regular woltk dungeons with sufficent healing to sustain the entire party?

Ok, cuz the resto druids in my guild keep advicing me to just go full holy with CoH for lazy healing. As a healing nut, i need confirmation. =)

Edited, Dec 2nd 2008 1:07pm by fainteddeath

Sorry, noob is learning. Is hard to start learning everything. im still shadow to level and i got a bunch of cool friends willing to grind instances to me till 80 or till i get the hang of it. Everything still fuzzy for me at the moment cuz i havent hit the 70 cap. Still i learn alot at this point.

Learning to stack spellpower intellect and spirit and mp5 is something i really learn lol. cuz as an elemental shaman, spirit and mp5 is something really at the back of my mind. Disc tree if i type in here would mean a hybrid of disc and holy with majority of the pts in disc.



How different? So far all i read is, penance and flash heal is the main healing spells for disc tree, g.heal is the main holy tree healing spell for the tank. The more common healing spells for the rest of the party for both type of trees is still renew, prayer of mending and blinding heal.

Edited, Dec 2nd 2008 2:48pm by fainteddeath

Quite a big chunk of information, indigestible for the moment lol. What glyphs?

Just wondering, how many shields are there?

So bad of me using other's people's thread to get my questions answered but i could get easy referral from information from here?

Priesty healing is so tasty, you make me want to go and level my priesty so fast.

Peace



Edited, Dec 2nd 2008 3:54pm by fainteddeath

Though I have yet to try it, I undersand from what has been shared with me that Disc healers are very active healers. Not only the spells you use, but mana managment also. Personally Holy is almost more lazy (as healing goes) and classical.
Blizz did a really cool thing for Healing priests (though I still think we lack something to make us STAND out from the other healers as top dogs). We were always great healers, but built more for group healing, and big heals, vs say the paladin who was, is? the best single target healer.
With all the changes overall for Healing Priests, we can now match, if not top a paladin in single target healing and still hold the top raid healing position, but the ways we can do it have been expanded.

I use Glyph of Renew and Glyph of PW:Shield (for the 20% heal return). I usually use Shield as a last resort (bias from my Pally tanking days) and love that as my over critting Rogue who's pulled agro is not only ticking away with a Renew on them, but gaining life as their target is trying to hit them. And with their dps, target usually dies without me having to look back at the rogue again. GHeal is still my main spell (something about big #'s turns me on), and I plan on doing a lot of raiding (and will respec for such) when I hit 80, so I'm again sticking with Holy. I will get down to 20% mana on a long battle where as my Disc brothers say they rarely if ever fall below 75%. With GHeal you have to predict damage taken on your tank so that you can land your heal so as not to overheal too much or see him die before it lands. With Disc... Penance is an instant start heal. There is no waiting for it to land and takes that guessing out of the game.



Well, for starters, GHeal is a 3 sec cast vs Flash (1.5 sec) or Pen (a channeling spell lasting 2 sec). As a Disc priest you can (though you don't have to... again so many ways to heal) use PW:Shield a lot. Talent it up and grab a glyph and you have a damage reflecting, mana/life regen bubble. With Holy you get Circle of Healing, a massive group healing spell (instant), so you are even more geared for raid healing. Again Blizz did a good job of making Healing Priests very diverse in the ways you can go about your job. In the end, I bet any 10 (maybe 25 man's too!) man raid with a Disc and a Holy priest will never need anymore healing than that.

I'm hurriedly in the process of leveling my priest (ding 60 last night!). I raided as a holy pally in BC, and really grew to detest it. I love healing though, and all the options a priest has gnawed at the back of my mind for months after I quit playing.

Coming from a world of single target FoL spam, I'm going the CoH route at the moment. I probably use it more than I should, but I'm still getting over the novelty of actually healing more than one target at once! Pennance looks damn sexy though...

Do you guys think that with these disc builds being all the rage, holy priests will be a bit more rare/sought after?