09-08-2005, 05:22 PM
Bolty,Sep 8 2005, 07:04 AM Wrote:For Priests, there's very few options for decent talent builds. If you're going for power in PvE healing, the 26 disc/25 holy build is the gold standard. Going for PvP, the power goes into the shadow tree with a few backup disc talents. Heavy use of the Holy tree is considered a "variant" by most, because the tree is so disjointed!
-Bolty
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Disagree here.
Holy really isn't that much of an improvement over non-Holy for being able to be efficient in raids. Most of the Healing effieciency comes very early in the Holy tree and as such, you can get away with only 10 points or less in Holy and still be close to the same efficiency as a Holy Priest that goes deep into the tree. From the raiding we've done on Onyxia and in MC, there's been little need for Subtlety, little need for Improved Healing (most of our healers rarely drop below 75% mana during the raids unless something goes horribly wrong), little need for Improved Prayer of Healing (unless something goes horribly wrong, only a few people get injured during the raids even dealing with most Bosses), Improved Flash heal is rarely needed unless a mob gets away from a tank (usually to something going horribly wrong), and Spirit of Redemption I can count on one hand where is has come in useful during our raids. The only two useful talents that I have seen, and one is argueable in the raids, has been Improved Renew (this is the argueable one) and Spiritual Healing.
As is goes though, Discipline to atleast Inner Focus is a big winner for the raiding Priest. Of those beyond Inner Focus, again, it's argueable their use due to +mana/5 seconds items. Meditation might be a bigger winner if Priests got something along the lines of the Mages' Mage Armor when combined with +mana/5 second items, but right now it's not that big of a help over +mana/5 seconds.
Something I see a lot of people overlook though is Shadow for raiding. One of the best talents for when things go wrong is Improved Fade. Combine that with Vestments of Truefaith and you have one great combo for keeping the agro off the Priest (leaving you up for only 8 seconds out of the cast timer on Fade were you have full agro).
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