1.10 Priest Builds

[Kevin]

So, a restoration shaman, a restoration druid, a disc/holy priest, a shadow priest, and a beast mastery hunter walk into Undead Strat...

and the latest 1.10 talent plan for the disc/holy priest is born.

We were unable to kill the Baron last night.  Holy water, bombs, volley, chain lightning, totems, help from that pathetic paladin... combined they weren't enough.  In retrospect we might have tried tanking him with the pet so that we had hurricane for two spawns, saving our other 1 minute cooldowns for the spawns when it is in cooldown.

If I had Holy Nova, we win.  So I'm happy to be picking that up soon.

Regardless, I realized that in optimal groups my healing capacity is rarely taxed, but some less traditional groups might require more.  I also realized that for the sake of pure damage, Spiritual Guidance > Force of Will, and it has healer related benefits that Force of Will doesn't.

So I am still getting some very nice holy damage boosters, but giving up Power Infusion and picking up Spirit of Redemption.  Still waffling on improved prayer of healing, and thrashing around in the first two tiers of discipline (I resisted a bunch of silences last night and comments in this thread have made me waver on improving shield).

Maybe this spec will last longer than an hour or two...

edit:  It wasn't so much the inability to kill the skeletons, as it was a lack of DPS on the Baron while doing so, leading to more skeleton groups, exhausting our resources.  We really only had the hunter for DPS, as a shadow priest who can't flay isn't contributing that much.
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Not to derail too much, but I think we could have do it had I not been so tired and thinking a little better.

I was worried that Yurtle wouldn't be able to position him well or hold aggro well and that incoming damage might have been too much. However thinking about it again, Yurtle, with MotW and the shadow resistance buff had 120 shadow resist and 7100 armor. Since I was primary damage source and I know Yurtle can hold against me we could have had the druid go bear to position him then stop doing aggro until the turtle got it. Druid could have then gone cat for more damage or used hurricane to help with the skelly packs more.

Since we knew it woudl be a long fight going in but that we had a large amount of healing I should have hit him with a mana drain earlier. Could have sucked him dry and prevented him from healing like he did a few times. I should have placed an explosive trap at the start by the priest so that the first wave of skells would have been dealt with that way. With the druid tanking I should have pulled the pet back FD'd and place more to help with that too. That would not have helped with the DPS issue on the Baron himself though, which is why I think my lack of confidence in the pet doing it was more detrimental to our success than anything. He had the defense and live (4600 HP buffed or something like that) to handle it I was worried about him holding aggro as a missed bite or resisted growl would really hurt and intimidation doesn't work on most bosses. Had I just had the confidence in him and let the druid do more DPS, + additional healing, + additional AoE I think that group could have done it. We knew it wasn't going to be easy going in, but heck the turtle tanked most of, including some of the bosses for most of it, Baron isn't that much tougher.

Ah well, it was really late (2am my time) when we got to him so I wasn't on top of my game.

But yeah I think Holy Nova could have tipped the scales in there as well. We've done it without a mage, or lock before, just a couple of hunters for the AoE, but we had a rogue to help with DPS and two hunters means more DPS (I had no DPS on the Baron when I was dealing with the skeletons via volley or multishot or what not two hunters means you still have some of that DPS there). So non ideal groups can do it in blues and greens we just missed it. The little mistakes that anyone made were too much to overcome and I made some little mistakes.