Respec for my priest.

[Xanthix]

Basically, I was planning on just 8 in discipline, giving up IPW:F, Metal Agility, and Mental Strength.  I would put 4 of these points into Shadow to pick up Silence.  The other seven I would put into Holy to pick up Improved Healing and Improved Flash Heal.

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I suppose what I'm really losing out of discipline is mana efficiency.  Agility is for instant cast -- how much of your mana is really spent with Renews in a party battle?  I'm hoping that  I was also thinking improved heal is 15% mana improvement, over 10% for Mental Strength, as I expect I won't be spending mana on much else other than healing in our runs.

Improved Flash Heal I am assuming will be most useful for soloing.

Can anyone comment on these tradeoffs?  I have basically no priest experience as yet, but I can count on having a very skilled tank in our party.[right][snapback]70247[/snapback][/right]

I can comment a little.

As for shadow, you know what they say. Silence is golden. No need to say more.

But for holy, I think Improved Healing and Improved Flash Heal are very situational. IH only works for your big slow heals, not flash heal. So if you find yourself using those heals mostly, it could be worth it. But you might not have a feel for that until later levels. I'm not impressed with IFH either - it casts very quick as it is and is thus interrupt-resisitant. For parties, if you are already taking enough hits for it to be worth it, are a few flash heals going to be enough to save the party? And for solo, I typically shield myself or cast scream before I heal/bandage, so I wouldn't use it there.

Overall in holy I would recommend Holy Spec (+5% holy crits), followed by Improved Prayer if you use Prayer of Healing a lot. Another option is to leave some of the points in disc. Improved PW:F is really nice (70 stamina instead of 54 at level 60), and I think you can't go wrong with more mana and cheaper instants.