1.10 Priest Builds

[Snowy]

I had found Subtlely to be a bit of a waste for healing, simply because as long as one or two priests had it, you could just lay low on healing early on, then ramp it up later. MJ makes a great point in general in that if the MT dies or loses aggro to healing, it's going to come after SOME priest anyways. It just means it wont be you.

Finally in 5 man instances even if I had to spam flash heals early on and drew aggro, I'd simply fade. In that time usually the fight has settled down and the tank has it safely locked down.

I'm still undecided on my 1.10 spec. I still have 130 or so +damage in specifically shadow gear, so I may still be staying shadow. I'm probably going to try out the 30% VE and see how that works out for party healing. For all the hullabaloo about Meditation being available early on in the disc tree, I don't see it helping shadow priests too much. In my full dmg gear set, I regen about 50 mana per tick when out of the 5 second rule. So 15% regen would be 7.5 mana per tick, or the equivalent of ~17-18 mana/5 sec. That's not to say it isn't an improvement, but it might mean one extra spell every 90 secs or so. Still, I'll probably end up being specced in it, simply because I can use all the mana I can get.

I'm going to miss Focused Casting though...