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I'm not sure anyone would go for a bit of each in every tree, it doesn't make alot of sense to mix holy and shadow as your damage spell rotation depends on how you spec.

For levelling, the usual is to go shadow, I know little about shadow priests - but the usual shadow priest rotation will probably include mind blast, mind flay, sw:pain, i.e. pure shadow damage.

Now if like me, you love the idea of healing instances as much as possible to level and don't mind too much that it takes you a while longer to down a mob then choose a holy/disc mix or full disc with 3 points in spirit tap. For the holy tree you'd pick up holy specialization, divine fury, searing light, spiritual guidance and surge of light - with the exception of searing light all these talents buff both your holy damage and your heals, your damage spell rotation would then include holy fire, sw:pain and smite. Theres various talents in the disc tree to either increase survivability (e.g. imp. inner fire, imp. pw:shield), help your mana pool, and buff both your healing and dps (e.g. twin disciplines, focused power, power infusion), all of which will help in both solo play and group healing.

This is my disc build for 71. Slightly flawed. I am just now starting to understand pain suppression.

Indeed I did. I gave it up and passed on Test of Faith so I could fill in Holy Reach and Healing Prayers. Holy Reach isn't for everyone but my healing assignments tend to leave me using PoH and CoH a lot.

Edited to add: also, the build I linked is totally not my build. I have Improved Fort, not Silent Resolve, so it actually looks like this.

Post patch I may play with it to get Test of Faith back, since I won't be using CoH as often.

Edited, Jan 16th 2009 11:07am by teacake

Honestly, you can lose the point in Lightwell. In theory, it is one of our best, most mana efficient spells in the game. In theory.

In reality, it was a wasted talent in BC, and even moreso in Wrath.

See the biggest problem with lightwell is that it relies on DPS to do your job for you. It relies on them to notice they are going low on health, and for them to run over and click the well. That's a major flaw in the system. Yes DPS should pay attention to their health, yes they should bandage or pot when needed, but it's hard enough getting them to use a healthstone in their inventory with can be action barred, much less have them run over to a bowl of water and click it.

It's even worse in Wrath, because the mechanics of the fights are a lot more hectic and require DPS to pay a lot more attention to several different things. Fights require a lot of moving around and placement adjustments. Placing a lightwell in an ideal spot is very difficult and will most likely result in big loss of DPS if they have to run over and click it.

Now of course, if you have an exceptional group, lightwell is a great spell. I've read several cases of how good lightwell can be. However, from what I have witnessed in game, the only time it was used was after a fight to replenish their health to full.

Edit: Not to mention (don't know if they fixed it or not), people get lag or overzealous results in multiple clicks of the lightwell, which means one person sucks up a couple charges rather than just one.

To many things to possibly go wrong to even bother with lightwell. It's pretty much better to control the heals yourself than to rely on the DPS to heal themselves.

Edited, Jan 16th 2009 4:14pm by SynnTastic

Leveling as shadow atm, but I will probably go with
Holy 20/51
as soon as I hit 80 (2 bars left :D) I took 5/5 Mental Agility instead of Serendipity since when I heal, I mostly use PoM, Renew and shield (and CoH once I get it).

I'm all about melting faces here is mine: http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=bZZG0d

Here's what I'll look like at 40: http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=bZZG0frofkcVo

After that I have no clue. I'm just soloing right now. Being low level sucks ><. But going to run VC tonight a few times to get the hang of healing. Glad I learn quick. Was a healer on FFXI for 2 yrs. Though they are 2 different games. Anyone using a solo build on shadow right now. Ok back to leveling!

Inner Focus you can do without if you wish, but what I'd do is swap Unbreakable Will for Imp Inner Fire.

Don't get me wrong, Inner Focus is one heck of a useful spell indeed. It's just that it's not uncommon to see priests who do fine without it, and I say let them if that's how they wish to play. I really wouldn't give it up either (or pick Lightwell or Desperate Prayer over it), but I can see how people do without it.

I'm not sure you know, since I rarely, if ever cast greater heal at the moment I'd never be out of the 5 second rule with inner focus anyway. Besides, with the amount of haste on gear these days, you're almost not ever out of 5sr while casting greater heals with inner focus. I place a lot more value on healing throughput these days to be honest.

Hah, my point just proved itself =P

Like I said in my second post; I myself wouldn't drop it for all the beer in the world, I just know there's priests out there who feel like they really don't need it and in the end you cán do well without.