Hybrid disc/holy talent buildFollow

The reason this probably isn't going to work is because you will run out of mana really really really fast, even in obscenely good gear, due to the simple fact that you have no regeneration *at all* and need to get by on cheaper spells and SoL procs alone. With obscene amounts of crit (50%ish) it might work, but I don't think the level of crit and int needed for it to work is attainable with the current gear around.

Feel free to give it a try though, I'm curious about it.

What this statement translates to is "I will not raid with this build". That's fine, as long as you realize that.

Last night, I was actually trying to find a way to take Spell Warding and Blessed Recovery, without sacrificing Penance or other key disc talents. I finally gave up.

PVP gear isn't the greatest on mana regen, and you are going to have to drink occasionally anyway, so have fun. I love penance in BG, but it does make it easy for the opposing side to notice me (actually I enjoy frustrating them).

Edited, Aug 14th 2009 12:37pm by dadanox

Thanks alot for your inputs Dadanox and emmitsvenson!

This build was only intended for PVP, since I have another discipline build for my raiding which isn't as experimental as this one :)

I can see your point on Focused Power instead of imp Mana Burn and also grabbing Power Infusion. Since i like Martyrdom alot, I will probably only put 1 point in Focused Power or perhaps steal 1 point from Mental Agility to put in FP instead.

My main reason for trying this build is to test how far the combination of the talents in the disc and holy tress benefitting from crit heals can take you. So far it seems promising as long as I have mana.
Have tried several times now surviving alot of burst damage from up to 3 or 4 enemy players while my teammates try to get them off my *** as well as bursthealing low life people up to full in a few seconds due to the fact that I have around 40 % crit chance on people below 50 % damage "suffering" from weakened soul effect
(Improved Flash Heal + Renewed Hope adds 14 % crit chance to this particular situation)

Ill keep posting my experiences here and hope for more inputs :)

Btw: Glyph of Pain Suppression really rocks... Nice to be able to throw it while u get stunlocked by a rogue and when its over u click stoneform to break off the rogues poisons and other crap (at least if youre a dwarf priest like me :P)

Just one thing that's been in my mind for ages but has never come out (due to obvious reasons): Don't grab Focused Will and Blessed Resilience in one build. Blessed Resilience effectively cancels out 2 points in Focused Will. And just 1 talent point for 1% crit really isn't worth it compared to the other stuff you can grab. Instead, very much put those points into Body & Soul and Mental Strength and voila, we've got worlds first 'holy' PvP build.

I'm thinking your build would probably be decent for survivability, though having Penance and Pain Suppression should beat it. No matter how you put it, Flash Heal has a cast time and getting interrupted could be downright horrible in that spec. Ironically enough, even though you've got Body & Soul (which allows you to have a go at kiting rogues O_o), speed is going to kill you. You'll take a serious lot less damage, but you'll have a harder time getting heals off as well and essentially this is what you should be doing most as a healer. I predict a build like this will have an easier time beating a number of melee classes in 1on1 (I'm thinking rogue and perhaps DK), but you will go out of mana very quickly and you'll suck ******** in any outlasting match. That, and you'll have a harder time keeping your allies up than you would as full disc.

That, and you'll really miss Penance the second you drop below 30% hit points.

Being a priest and not taking Meditation in a build is like being Men Without Hats and not playing Safety Dance in a concert.

I also would never go down that far in the Disc tree and leave Penance behind. Penance is way too good for that. The second build you link is even more hybrid-y and the problem I see there is that you don't get any of the best stuff from either tree. Personally, I either want Penance or Circle of Healing in any healing build.

I'm assuming you're taking the crit gear instead of the spirit gear, and as others have noted, I don't know how you don't go out of mana really fast with this build. It's a lot easier to drink in a battleground than it is in arena, and even in a BG it can be a hassle.

Survivability is great but there's a point where you can stand there and live but not much else, and then you have to start looking hard at the trade-offs you've made.

All that said, I would never use this build, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't. You say you've been trying it and having fun with it. That's what counts.