if it is in it, i missed it then i am sorry :p

would love a vid from every hc boss from you

I find its toolset for this fight more beneficial. (Atonement healing and AA when I need throughput for each of the transition phases).

I prefer PS over GS, as PS has constant use while GS is a proc unto itself. And on this fight, we do not kite as that can force people to move which can of course directly impact DPS and HPS.

Your lightning phase, is a viable strat– and obviously you’d not use barrier during that phase and use it on Frost or as a Tank CD if you wanted. We just prefer the cross strategy. Last night for example, lightning phase lasted all of 3-5 seconds after the mob died. It was pretty sweet.

That all said, We do run a Holy Priest on this fight and he’s solid. Holy is strong on this fight, especially given the mobility and damage models. At the end of the day, both are about equal to each other as far as ‘viability’… however, I am a firm believer that a good Disc Priest if they know their tools and time them will be VERY strong at this fight. (I, for example, regularly “top meters” on this… but thats not really relevant. )

I must say though, I was a little surprised to see you healing this fight as discipline, when I find it so much easier as holy. In fact, we usually have 3 priests in our healing makeup for this fight, either all holy or 2 holy/1 disc. What are your thoughts about using holy for this fight?

Our main reason for using so many holy priests is the lightning phase – people are too spread out for barriers to be useful, and holy priests will have divine hymn available for both. We take the lightning around the platform, rather than through the middle, which may account for us needing more cooldowns to survive (our healers don’t form part of the chain, and stand in the middle so as to reach everyone).

We also find guardian spirit to be a more useful cooldown for handling focussed assaults, although that’s mainly because of the assaults that we kite for – our kiter is a dps dk, and if his kiting isn’t long enough (and we can’t in position to use leap of faith to extend it, or it’s on cooldown) then gs is the only thing that will save him.

We handle the frost phase pretty much exactly as you do, although with holy words down in the middle and test of faith kicking in if people drop low in health, we don’t tend to need cooldowns there. If one of our priests is disc, we use a barrier, but that’s all.

Orr @ Anachronos EU