I really enjoyed my foray in Discipline. I love how powerful my shield is and the potential for burst healing is extraordinary. You can pull someone from the brink of death to full health in a very short amount of time. It seems like the obvious spec to go with once I start dipping my toe into Arena.
As far as the learning curve goes, here are my thoughts. It wasn't that hard to get down Shield-Penance-Flash Heal, much like for playing Holy it's not that hard to get down cancel casting Greater Heal or CoH-Flash Heal-Prayer of Healing. Renew and PoM don't really change spec to spec. And the basics of either spec will get you through 80% of healing situations. The harder part is that other 20%, not only knowing your other tools and keeping them at the front of your mind (Oh yeah! I have Power Infusion!) but knowing when to use them, and when to blow a cooldown and when not to. I feel like that can only come with practice and actually stayed Disc a couple days longer than I intended, just to get more used to it. I still have a very long way to go before playing this spec would become second nature to me.
But honestly the biggest challenge was that when under pressure I had a hard time remembering what I bound everything to.
I respecced to Holy because a.) vacations are nice, but that's where I live, people; b.) I actually like it better for battlegrounds; and c.) I'd be more comfortable healing 5 mans as Holy. I'm not ready to stake someone else's repair bill on my knowledge of Disc Healing.
My new "PVP" build is essentially the standard Holy raiding build, except I pick up Desperate Prayer and trade Inspiration, Improved Fort, and Twin Disciplines for Blessed Recovery, Silent Resolve, and Unbreakable Will. Those are some sacrifices for PVE, no doubt, but I'm not raiding right now and I don't see any reason I can't heal heroics this way. I'm glyphing for CoH, Flash Heal, and Dispel Magic.
Edited, Feb 4th 2009 12:30pm by teacake
