Comments on: 3.1 Priest Specs – Redux http://talesofapriest.com/2009/05/12/3-1-priest-specs-redux/ A Perspective on the Raiding Priest Sun, 21 Apr 2013 08:24:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Derevka http://talesofapriest.com/2009/05/12/3-1-priest-specs-redux/#comment-213 Derevka Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:38:43 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=61#comment-213 WWS wont track pushback. However, 2/2 focus is really nice especially with hard modes when there is tons of damage going out and you can't be delayed by your own damage.

ie. Firefighter for Mimiron. (but they removed the pushback from the Pulse Cannon in a hotfix a few weeks ago)

]]> By: Ilumina http://talesofapriest.com/2009/05/12/3-1-priest-specs-redux/#comment-212 Ilumina Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:36:06 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=61#comment-212 Hey Derevka. Some nice post you have here on your site. Regarding holy specs I keep seeing specs with 2/2 in Healing Focus, but I cant seem to find any explenation why. Maybe you can help me there. I havent noticed pushbacks being a problem while raidhealing, on the otherhand I mostly dont have time or is too stressed to watch my castbar. Is there anyway I can track the pushback sufferede e.g. in a wws-log?

]]> By: Erin http://talesofapriest.com/2009/05/12/3-1-priest-specs-redux/#comment-185 Erin Mon, 18 May 2009 16:21:00 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=61#comment-185 Zomg I get a shout out!

You can see my "main" holy spec here. It's pretty much what I said waaay back on the last blog discussion – told you that you would like warding!

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-talents.xml?r=Bloodhoof&cn=Avalonna&gn=Dark+Nemesis

I was also at odds before with the ToF trade off, but Council Hard mode and Freya +2 and up pretty much sealed the deal to keep 3/3 serendipity. Even with my crap haste rating (thank you Ulduar gear sigh), keeping that proced gives me a 1.6 PoH. I can get 2/3 ToF, but I need to cut In Focus and Des prayer, which I really dont need any more with smart play.

I am also enjoying the glyphed Renew…I only use it on average of 9-10% of overall healing, but its not uncommon for me to hit with that inital heal for 3k.

I dropped my Flash heal glyph. With my crit, it's almost impossible for me not to have a SoL proc, and it allowed me to have the renew glyph, and the PoH and CoH glyph are just too damn hot for holy.

My second spec was disc for the weekend, but for raiding I use what I call the Body & soul bitch spec http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?priest=0503203030000000000000000000235500032002152530025301231000000000000000000000000000&glyph=010719020306&version=9757 You HAVE to remember to take the Imp PW:S – otherwise your Disc priests can override your shield and negates the whole purpose of this spec. I yank my renew glyph & talents and use the GS glyph here….I've found this is nice for some hard modes with high mobility, or I suppose things like Gen if your tanks are having kiting issues. I don't feel its worth working body & soul into a main raiding spec, especially if you run a regular disc priest like we do.

-Ava

]]> By: Derevka http://talesofapriest.com/2009/05/12/3-1-priest-specs-redux/#comment-181 Derevka Sat, 16 May 2009 14:45:00 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=61#comment-181 I actually did suggest Body and Soul as an alternate spec (towards the bottom), however most of my Tanks are pretty quick… most of them.;)

]]> By: Anonymous http://talesofapriest.com/2009/05/12/3-1-priest-specs-redux/#comment-180 Anonymous Sat, 16 May 2009 01:44:00 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=61#comment-180 found this blog through your comment over at Matticus’ blog– I have to comment that you should think about rethinking skipping Body and Soul– it’s a really handy talnet for certain fights in Ulduar where moving out of stuff is vital. Also, Serendipity is hot stuff for hasted heals.

Personally I drop the holy reach, 0/2 and less points in Empowered Healing, since my g-heals are over heals mostly anyhow.

]]> By: Derevka http://talesofapriest.com/2009/05/12/3-1-priest-specs-redux/#comment-179 Derevka Wed, 13 May 2009 12:28:00 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=61#comment-179 Bob, I have to admit I’m a little surprised. Perhaps it’s because I’ve become addicted to renew and its become anywhere from 10-15% of my effective healing with ~13% overheal. It could be partially due to the fact that we are only running one resto druid, so the more hots the better!

]]> By: bobturkey http://talesofapriest.com/2009/05/12/3-1-priest-specs-redux/#comment-178 bobturkey Tue, 12 May 2009 23:12:00 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=61#comment-178 My Holy build is this: http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#bVcbuZbEhcbMqiu0ezAo:0mNzcV

Much as I love the idea of Renew I can’t justify using a global cooldown on it under most circumstances, so I dropped all the (6) renew talent points.

Other than 3/3 Serendipity AND 3/3 Test of Faith its otherwise similar to yours. i.e. Spell Warding, less Divine Fury, no Improved Healing.

I’m basically healing with just FH, PoM, CoH and PoH. FH spamming is dealing with MT healing just fine if needed.

]]> By: sparklefreeze http://talesofapriest.com/2009/05/12/3-1-priest-specs-redux/#comment-177 sparklefreeze Tue, 12 May 2009 14:17:00 +0000 http://talesofapriest.com/?p=61#comment-177 I’m inclined to taking all the goodies for GH because often in 10man, I find myself doubling as a MT healer. Though I could easily swap to Disc for MT healing, I still like having a higher SP for those instant raid heals etc on AoE damage fights.

About Serendipity, I realised your point early when I test-runned my spec in HoL after 3.1 hit. Healing Loken, I landed PoH early twice with the 3 stack Serendipity. =( Just took some practise and a closer look at the cast times to re-adjust all that.

I also made it a point henceforth to have SCT display my Serendipity stacks right in the middle of my screen to make life easier. After that, I used Loatheb as practise a couple of runs and quickly got used to what PoH felt like with 0,1,2 or 3 stacks.

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