Comments on: Priesting Discipline or Holy

By: Eli

Eli — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:48:35 +0000

I dont think AA would work too well on chim because its not necessarily going to heal who is slimed depending on when your smite hits the target.

I don’t know about 10 man, but I find it pretty easy to have raid icon assignments for healers in 25man and just focusing on each healer healing their raid icon each time slimes go out, that way you save as much mana as possible, and you need it all to heal the stack phases.

As a holy priest it wouldn’t be too hard to go serenity and hw:s the slimed target for really really cheap heals and then flash the target if you don’t have it up.

By: Dethog

Dethog — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:29:44 +0000

I gave atonement a go when we first tried this fight, after a couple of tries just found it too rng reliant.

For Caustic Slime found that just keeping very strict healing assignments was best solution, for 10 man that is 4 each for 2 healers each and an agreement if 2 targetted in one healers group, which the other healer would heal first. Heal is the most suited spell, if I am targetted I just cast Binding Heal on the other player. One healer can easily handle tanks, I have done it as Disc, even easier for a Pally.

Goes without saying that PoH is your friend for Massacre, watch the timer and precast, same goes for when Finkles buff is down, Archangel and PI are great for this, one cd per phase is sufficient, so with PW: Barrier and Divine Hymn you can cover 2 of them as disc. I always use Barrier first and cast again at start of burn phase

By: Lixor

Lixor — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:42:11 +0000

Would AA work on Chimaeron[10]?

We run with a hPala rDruid and me (holy MS / disc(AA) OS).
If the paladin beacons the tank and focus on the 10k. Druid on tank (I can assist with pennance/GH/PW:S). And I can smite. With the ‘smart’ targeting and the range in 10 man atonement should help with healing up to 10k.

And when Finkles buff is down I can pop archangel / PI / PW:barrier / Divine Hymn.

I’m usually holy. More in control of my heals and great HPS on my AoE when we need to top the raid.

By: Tsuruya

Tsuruya — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:16:52 +0000

What about reforging of stats? you might be able to play holy today disc tomorrow but if ur stats are pinpoint calculated for one spec… changing to the other might not work as well?

By: Ao

Ao — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:47:47 +0000

Would love to see a post explaining what your preference is (disc or holy)for each of the 12 Cata bosses and why.

By: Sakkula

Sakkula — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:40:23 +0000

Personally, after playing disc again for the first time in months, the only thing the turns me away from going back to Holy is Chakra. I liked all the instants, lightwell and B & S were some of my favorite talents in the game, but there was just something about chakra. Maybe it’s me, but I feel like having to “stance dance” with chakra seems bulky and outdated.

By: Troll Toes

Troll Toes — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:57:01 +0000

Whilst I enjoyed the use of both specs during our adventure in normal modes. I’m finding that now we are moving into heroics the mitigation provided by PW:B has meant that having 2 disc priests has become part of our ‘key’ set up. Leaving our Holy(/shadow) priest sat benched on a good deal of progress nights.

Perhaps it is simply that we’ve started with barrier favourable encounters (Halfus, Chim and Maloriak – and now working on Atramedes) and that we’ll see more use of holy specs during other fights. I really hope this is the case. Disc has always been my ‘mainspec’ but I miss spamming my lightwell macro ^~

By: Emmalise

Emmalise — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:17:33 +0000

Our guild actually swaps a lot (both specs and roles). We run a 29-man roster, and for that to work effectively, we make heavy use of multiple specs for the majority of our players.

For our priests, as we’re into Heroics now, we’re getting deeper into, do we want a spriest to go Disc, do we keep 1 holy, 1 disc, or have 2 holy go disc – then, out of those discs, how many go AA and how do we adjust healing assignments? Our healing strategy has become much more complex and we spend a lot more time on it than we did in the past.

As far as optimizing gear, I have my set pieces all gemmed/enchanted/reforged for disc, then use the non-set pieces to swap out to meet the reqs for both specs. It’s actually not too difficult to manage.. although definitely much easier the smaller the team is, as our gear doesn’t spread out across so many folks.

I love reading stuff like this, as it is one thing that’s been very difficult for us to find good discussion on.

Since we are unusual in our heavy multiple spec use most strat discussions revolve around working out a strat with the specific healers a raid team has.. where with ours we have a ton to choose from (our shammies, druids and pallies all switch between heals and dps too) and can tailor the healer choice to a strat instead of the other way around.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:00:58 +0000

The way I like to think of PS v. GS is… Do you need to reduce damage for a period of time or for one incoming attack? If the ability you’re cooldown-ing through is a channel, dot, or a bunch of successive blows, PS works wonderfully. If the ability is one HUGE blow of damage, GS is amazing. They can be swapped, but each has a specialty, just like all the things the D man pointed out for disc and holy.

Green?

By: Derevka

Derevka — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:13:16 +0000

O- youre right. However, when it comes to making a ‘mainspec’ choice, you do have to make certain descisions. I.E. Right now, Disc has nearly a 1:1 point value for Mastery as it does Int. While Holy, has a higher need to balance, Mastery, Spirit, and Haste. When it comes to gearing/gemming choices, you do have to make a few descisions making your gear optimized for one over the other.