Optimum 8 Player Configuration

[Treesh]

When people tell me Fear Ward is so uber, my only thought is that Fear is dispelled with Dispell Magic.  While undoubtedly Fear Ward is nice in PvP in order to protect *yourself* against a *single* cast of Fear (it then wears off, right?), with the 15% extra resistance to fear as the basic Discipline talent and the ability to dispell Fear on any party member with an instant-cast spell, I don't know if Fear Ward really overcomes 5% spirit in a PvE environment.  At least with my playing style which puts high value on mana regen.  Then throw Feedback in the equation as a plus for Humans.

I am not familiar enough with Fear Ward's and Feedback's specifics - how *exactly* do they work?

-Bolty
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My Aleri loves high mana regen. She's almost always the only healer in the group so I really need all the mana I can get and I have to be able to survive well. So she HoTs, and flash heals and wands when she isn't healing. High spirit for her helps so much with my playstyle. However, I really do enjoy having fear ward and stoneform. When we were playing in Un'Goro crater, I didn't know the critters could fear me so I didn't have my fear ward up. We got into a bad situation and without fear ward up, I got feared and then run into yet more mobs. I died. When we were playing in Shimmering Flats against all those stupid scorpid terrors, I had fear ward up on both GG and I all the time. Didn't have an issue with fear. Taranna and Etheramwen play in Shimmering Flats and Eth is constantly feared and running off into other mobs (losing any combo points I had built up in the process). That 5% spirit bonus can be somewhat made up by getting +spirit items in game. Even with the 5 points in unbreakable will that she has, fear ward has been needed and it's a whole lot harder to find shadow resistance equipment that will make a noticeable difference to being feared than it is to find spirit gear to boost your regen.

With stoneform, I can save my strong anti-venom to cure Gnolack or others of some of the worst poisons out there instead of burning them on myself. And not everyone is going to be able to get the strong anti-venom book drop so this is a decent alternative to clearing it off yourself before you learn to make strong anti-venom. The only debuffs my Aleri can't cure are curses now (and things that just aren't any category like sunder armor).

I originally chose to make her a dwarf simply because Gnolack was a gnome and a dwarf was as close to a gnome as I could get and still be a priest, but I'm quite glad I did so. I do have a baby human priest coming up through the ranks on a PvP server just to see what the differences are and how much of a difference feedback makes, but I'm still thrilled with my Aleri.