What a week at 80 can get you.Follow

Rawr!

A few blues left and ilevel200 epic dps bracers but overall it's not that bad.
5 emblems to go for my belt, then another 77 for the necklace and T8.5 chest and I'll be able to move on to PvP gear (Oh the joys of farming heroics.. ugh).

I managed to heal every heroic but Oculus and I loved it, the healing that is not the instances themselves.
So far I've found that ToC is the hardest to heal, or rather that it depends on the rest of the group a lot more than other heroics.
I can heal failbots through places like HoL and UP but if people start taking more damage than they should in ToC my mana flows away like water in a desert (The green stuff HURTS move out of it within 30 seconds next time please).
Then again, I ran heroic ToC with a couple alts (including a feral tank with 33k hp buffed) from my guild and the place was a breeze.

I also found that after doing craploads of heroics I became a lot less tolerant of stupidity.
I told the hunter in HoL to eat up because I can't heal stupidity when he got the lightning debuff (damage if you move) and managed to take down 90% of his hp with it while we were fighting a trashpack.

Anyways, I also got myself into a bunch of raids, from being carried through OS10 by a healadin from my guild the first few days to a failed VoA10 (so hey, I can solo heal Koralon for a good minute) because our second healer sucked and died constantly in the first 20 seconds of the fight to healing OS25 without being carried and actually keeping the tanks alive with just a bit of help from the other healers (yay 20 man achievement) and finally friday late night after farming emblems I got to heal Ony10 to help gear up the new member who rolled DK followed by a VoA25 run later that night where I didn't even look that bad on the meters even with me raid healing (and a resto druid on the tanks ><)
To top it all off, I also joined a succes full Ony25 PuG where I lost the roll on the dagger with 90 vs 91 and the winner using an ilevel232 weapon.

It seems like my priest has zero luck with weapons... I have yet to see one drop in heroic ToC, nexus or one of the wands from AN/AK.

Ulduar10/ToC10 next week and I might just be able to completely skip Naxxramas!

Gratz on the success. Keep working those heroics, and do the heroic daily as often as possible. I was pugging the daily (skipped Oculus)a bit and got my Shoulders and Wand from Emblems of Triumph. The badge rewards are really great.

I'm resigned to the fact that I love healing more than anything else. I'm taking my Druid to 80 as resto (questing feral) for a comparison of heal style, and so I'll have another toon to gear up as a project. Since the druid was my bank toon, I'm powerleveling my mage's enchanting, to take his place at the AH.

You raidy types are galley slaves. I could not miss raiding less. Wait a second. There. I missed it a little less.

I love reading all y'all's stories about it though. :)

Ulduar/ToC is good fun though.
And if I didn't gear up my priest what did I spend all that time leveling her up for?

Priests aren't exactly the most fun class to solo with.

I won't do that, and I wouldn't advice anyone else to do it either.
Spellpower procs (or haste, crit or any other proc that doesn't return mana) as a healer are kind of pointless as they're too unreliable.
I'd much rather trade Mp5 for spellpower somewhere else.

Really? So you'd take, say, a Strength enchant first?

No, but seriously. No. Certainly in the days of BC, when Shat was full, Drakes were Nether and Spirit was useful, as a priest you always, always, always took Spirit over MP5. Then they changed how Spirit functions and regen overall. Now it's out with that dusty old rule. As Holy, Spiritual Guidance still gives you good reason give Spirit more weight. But as Disc, nuh-uh. The guys who do the math say that 1 MP5 is worth 3 Spirit. I'll take a Royal Twilight Opal with 4 MP5 over its Purified counterpart with 8 SPI any day of the week with a side of fries.

It's preference thing but the SP boost is widely preferred and considered better for Disc. The proc rate is VERY high. Mana is nice but if you OOM as Disc either you or the tank should figure out the failing and adjust. As a 2050GS I just healed two tanks through Ony10 and earlier VoA10. Neither time did I even remember I had Fiend, nor did I dip under 80% mana.
Neither were geared enough to carry me.

wait..wat?

If you're casting 90% of a fight how is spellpower proc wasted? It's a prretty clear HSP boost



Well true, I find rapture/fiend/hymn is all the mana regen I ever need

I never went with the mp5 enchant so maybe I dont know what i'm missing but from ulduar to toc the only times I'm stressed for mana is when we have a slacker healer in the group or if we bring 6 healers to regular modes

Maybe on paper xxx mana per fight sounds good, but honestly even without replentish in the raid its hard for disc to oom.


Though there is no right or wrong way for priests to gem/enchant as long as it works for them and their raid groups

You only really need all the spellpower you can get during phases where the tank takes heavy damage.
Other than that, it's pretty likely that the extra healing just ends up as (more) overhealing.

Since it has a 30% uptime (roughly) there's a 70% chance of it not being up when you need it.
And as I said, I know the cloak enchant gives me roughly 31 Mp5 and I keep that in mind when gearing.



I'm also very strongly against random procs as a healer, I just really really don't like them.