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Well, you have found out that healing priests are needed. When the healing gear drops, you have a good shot at it. Give it a good try, you may find you enjoy it.

I would clarify that a healer of either disc or holy can do the job and will be sought after. Discipline isn't just for pvp anymore. The cookie cutter holy or disc builds will do fine to get you started.

Threat reduction with silent resolve is generally not needed, since tanks generate more threat now and fade will usually handle things if it's possible to do so. The one talent you absolutely should have as disc or holy is meditation, to allow mana regen while casting.

Good luck healing. Welcome to the light.

What server are you on? No, seriously, what server?

I would say for every raid in LFG looking for DPS, there are probably 2 or 3 looking for a tank or a healer. That number is probably doubled for heroics, for every 1 heroic looking for a DPS there are probably 5 or 6 looking for a tank or healer.

Most guilds do have a solid core of tanks and healers, and that is the problem. Because they are a solid core, they usually find their DPS within the guild, that leaves the rest of the guild DPS to fend for themselves when it comes to tanks and healers, ultimately forced to PuG, which results in a hell of a lot more LF1M Tank or Healer than LF1M Dps.



Yes, but as my above response said, there are a lot more groups looking for a tank or a healer than there are groups looking for DPS. As DPS you are a dime a dozen.



Tougher doesn't mean hard. Yes it probably would have been faster to level as shadow, but I had no downtime when leveling as holy from 70-80. Was very easy to solo as holy.



Yes, but those cost gold, and while it is easy to get gold, that could have been money spent on something else.



You would be surprised how often things go to off specs, because otherwise they would be sharded. My first naxx run on my elemental Shaman was a PuG, I walked away with 2 weapons and 2 pieces of armor for an enhance set, and that was with a 10m raid that had 2 hunters.

Heroics are even better for getting off-spec gear, I've sharded far more gear than I care to count on my priest, to the point where I ask people specifically if they want it for off-spec.



That's true, won't can't argue with that.

What it boils down to, which I have said quite a few times, it's about which is more important, your desire to raid or your desire to play a specific role.

If your desire to raid is more important than your desire to play a specific role, then go heals, if you are good, you will get a lot more runs. At the same time you tend to be one of the first blamed when things go wrong, regardless of actual fault. So that is a burden to bear.

If your desire to play a specific was is more important than your need to raid, then play that way, the gear will come in time, the current content isn't really that demanding for gear anyway so it shouldn't be a major problem.

Edit: Figured I should read the OPs full post since I sort of responded to it as well... man it's a pretty bad post...

The comment about saving guardian spirit for yourself, yeah that makes sense. Oh look the tank is a 5% guess I should cast GS on myself because when he dies the mob will go after me next... oh wait if I use it on the tank he won't die... dur.

Also the comments about Disc have already been covered, yeah, they can heal instances and raids too now.

Edited, Mar 20th 2009 3:11pm by SynnTastic

first off, let me clarify. when i say LFM i dont mean the "LFG interface" or the chat channel. i mean guilds actually looking to fill a raid spot with a PUGer. this usually comes about from a friends list or from another respectable guild. a good guild will rarely seek out a tank or healer in a general chat...when they do, you better have the prerequisites.

if you are LFG for PUG Vault, you are very correct. tanks and healers are always first priority and then the remaining spots are first-come-first-serve DPS, which fill rather quickly.



next, dont confuse the # of available tanks and healers with the # of willing tanks and healers. my main is a block cap pally tank. i will not join a group of 3 dps in the LFG interface. often, i will choose my healer and then i will fill the dps spots. usually the dps spots are people i know, the remainder is based on what class might be better. i will say this: I LOVE SHADOW PRIESTS! i played Shadow in all of BC so i know what they bring and what they can do.

this brings us to another point: if you excel in what you do, you will find groups regardless of your spec. my Ret pally does 3.2k dps in H CoS drake runs. i have a far easier time finding good heroics and raids as a Ret pally than any other way. in fact, i am invited to a H Naxx clear tonight because i am Ret and the guild knows why you bring one. my priest has the hardest time getting the heroic dungeon tailor pattern because i cant get a group for H Occ or H HoS(or at least complete it) even given the fact that i'm a +2.2k Disc healer.

so yes, if you want a welfare heroic run from LFG you will have an easier time finding one as a Holy priest(enjoy the silly wipes). if you want solid raid runs, represent yourself correctly.

The two specs compliment each other amazingly, especially if played well. I ran Naxx 10 man as Disc with a Holy priest and a Resto Druid and it was fantastic. I was on MT and the Holy Priest mainly healed OT and some group heals on our group and the druid healed the other group and himself throwing extra our way if needed. They are a couple so I let them fight it out tbh but I think they healed like me and my hubby do where they shout randomly at each other through the process.

Whatever they did it worked so well and we cleared 3 quarters in the fastest time our guild has ever done. Go priests!

Edited, Mar 21st 2009 9:03am by ysabellstohelit