01-24-2006, 11:18 PM
Oh priest advice. And yeah my biggest priest is only L29 (and he is shadow right now my biggest holy priest is only L21) but I have main healed with a paladin and with a druid a fair bit.
On your talents. I think you should get Improved Prayer of Healing. With that talent if you hit two people with it, it becomes your most HP/s and HP/MP spell in most cases. As a paladin who no AoE heal and a druid with more a less a gimmick for AoE healing I really wish I had a good AoE heal. :) If you are that deep in Holy I think it a mistake to not get it.
That gives you 6 points left to play with.
I personally like spirit of redemption though other priests will say you messed up if you died and the small amount of healing it will do won't save the group anyway. I have seen it save wipes in 5 mans, several times. Generally it was when something else went wrong and we were fighting two groups at once or something like that but it was enough healing after the priest was dead to keep up to win. I know it got us the victory on Thermaplugg in Gnomer the first time we faced him and none of us really knew the encounter. I know it saved a 5 man live strat run I was on that would have been over becuase of respawns if we couldn't recover. I've seen a priest with a soulstone burn out of mana healing, draw the aggro, die with spirit of redemtion providing more healing then stone up and finish the fight. In raids it's pretty much a beacon that, guys I'm dead now you messed up and we are probably going to wipe very soon. In a 40 man the healing it does is pretty much pointless, yeah.
I don't have a problem with you not having subtlety. I see that as a PuG healing talent or a talent for a healer that won't let others heal on raids. It can also be helpful with the early healing for the tank, but if you have a good tank, holding against healing aggro is not hard, it's much easier than holding against DPS. You have good tanks on Terenas. :) So your inspiration choice I think is a good one.
Meditation helps the longevity and it's a better talent for priests than it is for druids in my book. However I don't miss it that much on my druid and I don't know how you feel on it. The Terenas groups you seem to usually play in are very good about focus fire and focused damage which should help the mana pool not be as important. In PuGs this could of course be huge. Really if you want divine spirit, pick this up. You put those two together (DS is what 5 mana per tick while not casting and that would be what .75 mana a tick while casting with mediation). It's a solo healer or a low healer raid talent. DS is very nice in raids and the other healers (and casters) will be very pleased to see you cast it. :)
Holy Fire is a fun talent. I love seeing it as a tank, it means I'm doing my job very well if a priest feels they can waste time and mana on it. :)
But I'll let others with more direct experience speak up.
On your talents. I think you should get Improved Prayer of Healing. With that talent if you hit two people with it, it becomes your most HP/s and HP/MP spell in most cases. As a paladin who no AoE heal and a druid with more a less a gimmick for AoE healing I really wish I had a good AoE heal. :) If you are that deep in Holy I think it a mistake to not get it.
That gives you 6 points left to play with.
I personally like spirit of redemption though other priests will say you messed up if you died and the small amount of healing it will do won't save the group anyway. I have seen it save wipes in 5 mans, several times. Generally it was when something else went wrong and we were fighting two groups at once or something like that but it was enough healing after the priest was dead to keep up to win. I know it got us the victory on Thermaplugg in Gnomer the first time we faced him and none of us really knew the encounter. I know it saved a 5 man live strat run I was on that would have been over becuase of respawns if we couldn't recover. I've seen a priest with a soulstone burn out of mana healing, draw the aggro, die with spirit of redemtion providing more healing then stone up and finish the fight. In raids it's pretty much a beacon that, guys I'm dead now you messed up and we are probably going to wipe very soon. In a 40 man the healing it does is pretty much pointless, yeah.
I don't have a problem with you not having subtlety. I see that as a PuG healing talent or a talent for a healer that won't let others heal on raids. It can also be helpful with the early healing for the tank, but if you have a good tank, holding against healing aggro is not hard, it's much easier than holding against DPS. You have good tanks on Terenas. :) So your inspiration choice I think is a good one.
Meditation helps the longevity and it's a better talent for priests than it is for druids in my book. However I don't miss it that much on my druid and I don't know how you feel on it. The Terenas groups you seem to usually play in are very good about focus fire and focused damage which should help the mana pool not be as important. In PuGs this could of course be huge. Really if you want divine spirit, pick this up. You put those two together (DS is what 5 mana per tick while not casting and that would be what .75 mana a tick while casting with mediation). It's a solo healer or a low healer raid talent. DS is very nice in raids and the other healers (and casters) will be very pleased to see you cast it. :)
Holy Fire is a fun talent. I love seeing it as a tank, it means I'm doing my job very well if a priest feels they can waste time and mana on it. :)
But I'll let others with more direct experience speak up.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.