Anyone use or see any strange priesty builds out there?
And were they successful or just plain useless?
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I came across a snowflake priest in Ulduar with a bit of a, uh, different spec. Something like this. (He had a weird letter in his name, so I haven't been able to pull up his armory.) He claimed 11k flash heals, I assumed he meant crits. It seemed like an eccentric build that left him with fewer heals to select from and just relying on powerful hots and spots. I imagine it allows him to perform as a utility healer with lesser gear (he was in Naxx 10s and 25s with a couple pvp epics sprinkled in), but I can't see him making it in a starter role with this build. I didn't really have a chance to see what he was capable of, the pug didn't last long enough to gauge it.
Anyone use or see any strange priesty builds out there?
And were they successful or just plain useless?
Anyone use or see any strange priesty builds out there?
And were they successful or just plain useless?
That is the weridest thing i've ever seen. I don't know how that would work
You have almost none of the good stuff in holy, and no good disc stuff
That is a really odd spec and with both holy and disc being power when properly spec'd I don't even know why you would try that spec.
I mean with no holy reach, no healing prayers, test of faith, and no circle of healing you have very minimual AoE. Which means you are a tank healer I guess. But with a somewhat slow gheal (compare to penance) and no 51 pt talent
I've seen hybrid spec priest's like that in pug VoA's but they never have any ulduar achivments.
I will say that I haven't tried this, but you just miss too many required talents for it to work as well as it could. That being said, priest is still very powerful so this could work but the priest is gimping their output
You have almost none of the good stuff in holy, and no good disc stuff
That is a really odd spec and with both holy and disc being power when properly spec'd I don't even know why you would try that spec.
I mean with no holy reach, no healing prayers, test of faith, and no circle of healing you have very minimual AoE. Which means you are a tank healer I guess. But with a somewhat slow gheal (compare to penance) and no 51 pt talent
I've seen hybrid spec priest's like that in pug VoA's but they never have any ulduar achivments.
I will say that I haven't tried this, but you just miss too many required talents for it to work as well as it could. That being said, priest is still very powerful so this could work but the priest is gimping their output
He has a bit more mana from going deeper into discipline. He has improved shields, but no reduced cooldown from soul warding to cast them. He has none of the other cool discipline talents like penance.
That all must mean he is holy, but wait... no CoH, Serendipity, Test of Faith, or Gaurdian Spirit.
That's not a "Weird Healing Spec". It's just a crappy one.
That all must mean he is holy, but wait... no CoH, Serendipity, Test of Faith, or Gaurdian Spirit.
That's not a "Weird Healing Spec". It's just a crappy one.
The Honorable dadanox wrote:
He has a bit more mana from going deeper into discipline. He has improved shields, but no reduced cooldown from soul warding to cast them. He has none of the other cool discipline talents like penance.
That all must mean he is holy, but wait... no CoH, Serendipity, Test of Faith, or Gaurdian Spirit.
That's not a "Weird Healing Spec". It's just a crappy one.
That all must mean he is holy, but wait... no CoH, Serendipity, Test of Faith, or Gaurdian Spirit.
That's not a "Weird Healing Spec". It's just a crappy one.
He may have had Soul Warding for a shield spam, I made the build from memory on what stuck out at me most- the holy talents (or rather, lack of) and stat boosts from disc talents. But even if he did, without Rapture the spam would drain his mana with no hope of return.
When I inspected him, my thoughts followed your critique almost exactly. Made me think that the guy was indecisive as to what he wanted to do well, so he settled on being able to do anything poorly.
(I would never ask him for directions, I would probably end up in the middle of a dessert.)
Naturally, seeing a Holy build with no CoH made me have to take a moment. Once I wiped the blood out of my eyes, I sat down and tried to look with an open mind and see the reasoning. But it really doesn't have the obvious point of most hybrid builds: it's not getting to a key talent in both trees (or either tree). It's a very odd mish-mosh.
I don't see anything uniquely flash-healy special about this build. What am I missing? Because he gets 2% extra spirit from Enlightenment that translates to spellpower via Spiritual Guidance? That's some tiny fractional number, so it can't be that. But Enlightenment is a very odd place to stop in the Disc tree, so I wonder why he just had to get that.
I am kind of a build junkie. I love trying weird non-standard builds and playing around with them. They are often successful if you define success as "That was fun for an hour." But I'd never show up for a raid in anything but the cookie cutter. Not because I'm a follower so much as because I can't be ***** to do the math to find my own optimized build for something.
Trylofer wrote:
He claimed 11k flash heals
I don't see anything uniquely flash-healy special about this build. What am I missing? Because he gets 2% extra spirit from Enlightenment that translates to spellpower via Spiritual Guidance? That's some tiny fractional number, so it can't be that. But Enlightenment is a very odd place to stop in the Disc tree, so I wonder why he just had to get that.
Trylofer wrote:
Anyone use or see any strange priesty builds out there?
And were they successful or just plain useless?
And were they successful or just plain useless?
I am kind of a build junkie. I love trying weird non-standard builds and playing around with them. They are often successful if you define success as "That was fun for an hour." But I'd never show up for a raid in anything but the cookie cutter. Not because I'm a follower so much as because I can't be ***** to do the math to find my own optimized build for something.
If you go down the list far enough of popular builds, you will find some weird stuff.
Yep, when I grow up I wanna be a Shadow, Smiting, Shielding.... Well, this guy's build looks interesting anyway.
Yep, when I grow up I wanna be a Shadow, Smiting, Shielding.... Well, this guy's build looks interesting anyway.
I finally found the other priest's build. No wonder I couldn't remember it correctly, it's all over the place.
I am convinced he was just playing around with different builds, probably for pvp, and was normally specced disc- he did have a penance glyph on his armory. I am just bewildered why he would jump in Uld25 and expect to be taken srsly!
I don't know why this is bugging me so much, I must be bored or in need of some meds.
... DRINKCART!!!
I am convinced he was just playing around with different builds, probably for pvp, and was normally specced disc- he did have a penance glyph on his armory. I am just bewildered why he would jump in Uld25 and expect to be taken srsly!
I don't know why this is bugging me so much, I must be bored or in need of some meds.
... DRINKCART!!!
I actually tried a spec very similar to this not too long ago; I specced disc/holy, going for the mana regen talents from both talent trees in the hope that insane longevity would allow me to cope with the lack of some power. What I ended up with was a completely sucky spec that A) had the same longevity as either full holy or full disc and B) lacked Penance/CoH and basically turned Flash Heal into my main heal. The reason the spec the OP linked isn't going to work is because it doesn't have CoH, Serendipity, or Penance. It's not per definition useless as some fights deal damage that is best countered by throwing quick strong Flash Heals (P2 of Iron Council for example, group heal isn't always the heal of choice), but in any serious encounter (any hardmode, basically) it's not going to hold due to the very simple fact that you will always NEED either Penance or CoH.
Really, it's lots of fun to play around with specific specs, and some evil definitely hold their ground in some encounters. It's just that most of these specs are so niche that they're not going to be of any use in a real end-game fight. As for the spec the OP posted; it isn't good for anything but flash heal spamming. You're going to run OOM really fast like that.
Really, it's lots of fun to play around with specific specs, and some evil definitely hold their ground in some encounters. It's just that most of these specs are so niche that they're not going to be of any use in a real end-game fight. As for the spec the OP posted; it isn't good for anything but flash heal spamming. You're going to run OOM really fast like that.
That spec sort of made me throw up in mouth a wee lil bit. Why???? Oh well, to each their own I suppose and if they have fun playing that spec, then good for them.
Wierd and then some. I have done some hybrid specs as well and I spec a couple of points off the cookie cutter to fit my style but I can't see the reasoning at all in this spec. He doesn't even actually have the improved flash heal so he can't even spam that. I wonder if he picked things as he thought they "sounded cool" I won't even start on the 3 way random spec. I can only think he is trying to PVP? Going for extra damage in shadow while also doing mana regen from Disc and protection type talents from Holy. It just means epic fail though.
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