11-14-2007, 10:17 PM
Concillian's covered most of the basics:
1) Until you get gear, you'll need Blessed Resilience to survive even a few seconds. Priests are as gear-dependent in PvP as Warriors are in PvE, which is to say, you're complete dogmeat until you get geared up. Prepare for an unfortunately miserable time until you get some gear. :(
2) Holy Concentration is a pure raiding talent, and with the new Meditation change to 30% regen while casting, really just isn't very important anymore considering the sacrifices you're making. Yes, a pure healing build would get it without question, but that's not your aim.
But I'd like to add:
3) Divine Spirit just is so blah now. Mages have no desire for Spirit anymore as a stat, now that Evocation isn't based on it. Warlocks have no spirit to begin with. Paladins don't care, and Shamans barely so. Overall, the damage boost you'll provide is far too miniscule, and as you get more and more PvP gear, you'll get less and less spirit. No PvP gear has spirit on it, and for good reason. I'd take those points out of Imp. DS, personally. However, keep the point in DS, as it's one more buff the enemy has to dispel off of you to get to your "real" buffs, and you get to keep that +50 spirit boost for PvE.
4) Under that same principle, Spiritual Guidance isn't worth the points. For a whole-hog healing build, it's nice for sure, but your points are better spent elsewhere for a hybrid.
I'd recommend a build like this. It's a more classic 28/33 build.
Advantages for PvE:
Improved PW:F
Meditation and Inner Focus
Divine Spirit
Boosts Greater Heal
Spiritual Healing
Healing Prayers and Mental Agility for dirt-cheap Prayer of Mending
Advantages for PvP:
Spell Warding
Holy Nova (your anti-rogue, anti-hunter talent)
Spirit of Redemption (you're going to die a lot, so this will get a lot of use)
Blessed Resilience (absolute must-have for your gear level)
Improved Mana Burn, the must-have spell for arenas
Focused Power, for owning Ice Block mages, Paladins, etc.
Healing Prayers and Mental Agility for dirt-cheap Prayer of Mending
1 point is in Blessed Recovery as an anti-dispel measure to help protect better buffs like Blessed Resilience.
As always, YMMV. Once you get a bunch of good PvP gear, I'd recommend what will possibly become the Season 3 Priest Flavor-of-the-month build, 41/20. This is even more slanted towards PvP, sacrificing Spiritual Healing (ouch, admittedly), Healing Prayers, and Blessed Resilience but gaining Power Infusion, the incredible Focused Will talent, and Pain Suppression. Hey, don't knock Pain Suppression - I've already used it 4 times in just the first night to save someone in PvE (once myself). It's a great "oh snap" button when the wrong person pulls aggro...if that person is you in a heroic, where you can get 1 or 2-shot by most mobs, it can save the day.
-Bolty
1) Until you get gear, you'll need Blessed Resilience to survive even a few seconds. Priests are as gear-dependent in PvP as Warriors are in PvE, which is to say, you're complete dogmeat until you get geared up. Prepare for an unfortunately miserable time until you get some gear. :(
2) Holy Concentration is a pure raiding talent, and with the new Meditation change to 30% regen while casting, really just isn't very important anymore considering the sacrifices you're making. Yes, a pure healing build would get it without question, but that's not your aim.
But I'd like to add:
3) Divine Spirit just is so blah now. Mages have no desire for Spirit anymore as a stat, now that Evocation isn't based on it. Warlocks have no spirit to begin with. Paladins don't care, and Shamans barely so. Overall, the damage boost you'll provide is far too miniscule, and as you get more and more PvP gear, you'll get less and less spirit. No PvP gear has spirit on it, and for good reason. I'd take those points out of Imp. DS, personally. However, keep the point in DS, as it's one more buff the enemy has to dispel off of you to get to your "real" buffs, and you get to keep that +50 spirit boost for PvE.
4) Under that same principle, Spiritual Guidance isn't worth the points. For a whole-hog healing build, it's nice for sure, but your points are better spent elsewhere for a hybrid.
I'd recommend a build like this. It's a more classic 28/33 build.
Advantages for PvE:
Improved PW:F
Meditation and Inner Focus
Divine Spirit
Boosts Greater Heal
Spiritual Healing
Healing Prayers and Mental Agility for dirt-cheap Prayer of Mending
Advantages for PvP:
Spell Warding
Holy Nova (your anti-rogue, anti-hunter talent)
Spirit of Redemption (you're going to die a lot, so this will get a lot of use)
Blessed Resilience (absolute must-have for your gear level)
Improved Mana Burn, the must-have spell for arenas
Focused Power, for owning Ice Block mages, Paladins, etc.
Healing Prayers and Mental Agility for dirt-cheap Prayer of Mending
1 point is in Blessed Recovery as an anti-dispel measure to help protect better buffs like Blessed Resilience.
As always, YMMV. Once you get a bunch of good PvP gear, I'd recommend what will possibly become the Season 3 Priest Flavor-of-the-month build, 41/20. This is even more slanted towards PvP, sacrificing Spiritual Healing (ouch, admittedly), Healing Prayers, and Blessed Resilience but gaining Power Infusion, the incredible Focused Will talent, and Pain Suppression. Hey, don't knock Pain Suppression - I've already used it 4 times in just the first night to save someone in PvE (once myself). It's a great "oh snap" button when the wrong person pulls aggro...if that person is you in a heroic, where you can get 1 or 2-shot by most mobs, it can save the day.
-Bolty
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