Comments on: 3.1 Priest Specs – What are You Doing?

By: Babar

Babar — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:46:00 +0000

Brian, 17% is for a single talent point. You get 50% with 3 talent points. Since spirit regen is now 60% of what it used to be, 50% of 60% is 30%, which is just what Meditation used to be.

By: Nightfright

Nightfright — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:54:00 +0000

I have a question about gemming. I plan to dual Disc/Holy and was wondering how I should gem. For right now I am planning to use the same set of gear for both which happens to be former holy gear. Is there a way to gem my gear that it will benefit both specs?

By: deepholyalways

deepholyalways — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:01:00 +0000

@Brian

I would not give up Meditation for anything. That 17% is your mana regen while under the effects of the 5 second rule. That means regenrating mana while you are casting PoH for example. Imagine not having any mana regen at all while casting and for 5 secs after a cast.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:31:00 +0000

My comment is regarding Meditation in the Disc tree. My (limited) understanding of the 3.1 changes says it’s going to be very hard to get out into the 5-second rule; is that where Meditation applies? Meditation says “Allows 17% of your mana regeneration to continue while casting”. It looks like that talent takes a severe hit, but I haven’t spent any PTR time to test it out. Anyone care to comment — is Meditation still worth taking for either Holy or Disc?

By: Euphony on Draka/Horde

Euphony on Draka/Horde — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:21:00 +0000

Nice discipline spec Derevka, great minds must think alike =P.

I just stumbled on here seeing what fellow priests have to say and boy am I glad, keep up the good work! You may have a new regular here!

@suicidal
Currently with pre-3.1, the reason I almost never renew as a disc priest, is it eats my mana, because it does not proc with rapture. In 3.1 i forsee a more possible use for it, but I am thinking, even still 6 sec on penance PW:S and a flash heal (with casting and mana use reduced) i wont have time to renew ^_^

By: bobturkey

bobturkey — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:09:00 +0000

Bummer. So can anyone link anything regarding Renew critting in 3.1?

By: Derevka

Derevka — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:34:00 +0000

Ava- you are right, HR is a tough one for me, but I really am banking on ProH being a huge OP spell… for now. ToF is interesting since the change from live to PTR. The selling point of Crit is lost for me now.

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:46:00 +0000

I agree mostly with your holy spec - I'm still torn on ToF or HR - if it's raid healing concentration (and as 25 man holy, most likely will be), you would think HR...but, on the other hand, just because a target is out of my reach (and if he's doing it right, he shouldn't be) he can probably be taken care of by someone else. There's lots of heavy periodic and splash damage that I've seen, and I'm not sure I want to give up the extra healing bonus when it's really needed.

My dual specs wont be 2 different trees, but probably 2 versions of holy - heavy raid healing and single target concentration healing (still playing with that...something to think about)...if I can get a few more pieces that would be better for Disc I will probably forgo that. I even have another spec I might utilize for Hodir/heavy mobility fights....I need more specs. Sorry I'm rambling.

Oh, and the serendipity changes coupled with the targetable PoH is pure sex.

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-Ava

By: Daria

Daria — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:08:00 +0000

I like your holy spec. I made a post on my own blog yesterday trying to reason out a holy spec and have been toying with the idea of skipping Test of Faith as well.

It is good to get a viewpoint from someone who has actually tested on the PTR, as I haven't and I'm not sure how my style of play is going to change.

By: Derevka

Derevka — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:21:00 +0000

Also, Bob, there is a really good post over at MMO Champ

http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=45721.msg794304#msg794304

About keeping Uptime on Holy Concentration. Shouldn't be too hard provided you have balance of haste/crit.

Quote:
Crit %/Cast Frequency/HC Uptime

20% / 1.2 sec: => 77.41% uptime
25% / 1.2 sec: => 83.31% uptime
30% / 1.2 sec: => 90.72% uptime
35% / 1.2 sec: => 94.34% uptime

20% / 2.5 sec: => 51.04% uptime
25% / 2.5 sec: => 60.17% uptime
30% / 2.5 sec: => 68.06% uptime
35% / 2.5 sec: => 74.80% uptime

20% / 4.0 sec: => 36.00% uptime
25% / 4.0 sec: => 43.75% uptime
30% / 4.0 sec: => 51.00% uptime
35% / 4.0 sec: => 57.75% uptime