Comments on: 4.3 Meta Gem Changes

By: Discipline Secondary Stats | Tales of a Priest

Discipline Secondary Stats | Tales of a Priest — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:50:21 +0000

[...] in mind, both on 10 and 25s POH represents most of our healing) (Don’t forget, with the new Crit Meta we gain even more! (And atonement double [...]

By: Adinne

Adinne — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 07:16:54 +0000

Unless I am mistaken, Atonement seems to in fact double-dip on this critical effect. The heals resulting from critical smites are slightly bigger than the damage of those smites.

By: dan

dan — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:06:37 +0000

Can’t edit, but the 2% is around 5,190 mana lost for me (raid buffed, gnome & 173k mana pool, assuming 173k * 0.03)

By: dan

dan — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:04:23 +0000

Great write up, I’d say even the MP5 lost would be even less for discipline, since 12 second rapture procs is pretty hard to obtain 100% of the time.

Am changing it for my holy spec for sure, need to check my disc set to see how much mana is lost.

By: Atonement & Archangel Healing in Dragon Soul | Tales of a Priest

Atonement & Archangel Healing in Dragon Soul | Tales of a Priest — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:44:32 +0000

[...] Atonement builds. You will also want to be certain you are using the Burning Shadowspirit Meta Gem (See my earlier post regarding Meta Gems in 4.3) And yes, you will want to value Crit more in 4.3 and Dragon Soul. I don’t want to re-create [...]

By: 4.3 Quick Tips and Tidbits for Resto Shaman | Life in Group 5 - A Resto Shaman Blog

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:13:28 +0000

[...] you haven’t read this Meta Gem discussion from Derevka, please do. Long story short—if you’re not having mana issues and have a crit level that’s [...]

By: Yogurt

Yogurt — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:39:18 +0000

Really interesting I completely missed this. I’m playing disc currently in DS (8/8 normal in 25 man first night, 1 shot everything \o/). As i’m tank healing only really as we run with a resto shaman/holy pala/holy priest/resto druid and another resto shaman or pala I will be taking this new meta for sure. Mana issues will be a thing of the past once disc gets it’s 4 set in my opinion. Even now i’ve taken to reforging most of my spirit to crit.

By: davesignal

davesignal — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:24:57 +0000

Well, this will certainly add another piece of gear to the pile my Shadow main spec can share with my Discipline off spec without losing efficacy. Good to know.

By: Derevka

Derevka — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:42:40 +0000

Its more of a “no brainer” for Holy… since they get so little from 2% mana as all their regen is spirit based; look at the chart… remove rapture. You lose MINIMAL mp5; though you gain only on your crits. (But similar to druids, with the sheer mass of healing going out from Sanctuary, COH, POH, you’re total NUMBER of crits is fairly high). Look at your WOLs, pull out your crits only, and increase them. (and in turn it’ll increase Echo too, but for simplicity ignore Echo for now).

It’s not a HUGE HPS increase, but the swap is outweighed by far by the minimal MP5 you’d give up.

By: Oestrus

Oestrus — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:35:05 +0000

I had actually read something about this, when I was reading the resto shaman compendium @ EJ, but I wasn’t quite sure how to apply it to priests.

It’s still too early for me to tell, with regards to how my mana is doing in Dragon Soul. I’ve done the first 4 bosses through the Raid Finder and the first 2 with my actual raid. Last night was our first night raiding and our second one will be on Sunday. Right now, I think I’m OK. I used a potion and Shadowfiend and did alright. I think I’ll play it cautious for a little while longer and then decide, but it’s tempting.

It still seems like it screams “discipline priest” and not really “holy.” Maybe I’m not thinking big enough.

Thanks for the write-up!