03-07-2006, 01:41 PM
Cleoboltra's initial build.
This is a talent spec designed for raid healing. If I were more into PvP, it would of course be completely different.
OMG, why no Improved Renew or Spiritual Healing? Well, any Priest who's been raiding for a while as a pure healer can tell you why: the points are better spent elsewhere. The reason for this is because these talents don't stack with +healing. While +damage talents will stack up with +damage gear, +healing talents don't stack with +healing gear.
So if I have +500 healing (not hard to get for a raiding healer), and my Renew heals for 1000, it will heal for 1500 without talent points. It will heal for 1650 with talent points - NOT 1725. As you get more and more +heal gear, the total percentage improvement of the +heal talents becomes less and less. This isn't to say that I wouldn't want the +heal talents, I would, but not at the cost of some of the more useful stuff out there: talents that change the core functionality and power of the Priest, not just supply a little more +heal. Game-changing talents.
Crits are huge. It's not just the coolness that is Inspiration. People think about crits the wrong way, really. Sometimes it's overhealing, but if you're especially raining down heals on tanks (think BWL), it's often not. Crits are really "free" 50% extra healing. If there were a talent that said "chance of healing your target for 50% more for free," I think more healers would consider it seriously. That's what a crit is - it's free healing. Tack Inspiration on top of it and you've got a big bonus.
A newly minted 60 Priest would get a lot more bang out of Improved Renew and Spiritual Guidance than a decked-out raiding Priest with +600 healing gear. I'd rather have the extra mana from Mental Strength, though - which, btw, stacks with gear and buffs; multiplicative effects for the win.
I'm also just not impressed by Lightwell at all (on paper); nor does Power Infusion excite me (sorry Mages). If I were PvP spec'ed, maybe...
Anyhow, it's been a longstanding complaint of Priests that talents for +healing don't factor in +healing gear. Many Priests with lots of +heal gear spec OUT of Improved Renew, and then have to suffer seeing "A more powerful spell is already active" because Blizzard's game code considers a 200-hp-per-tick Renew of a newly minted 60 Priest with Improved Renew more powerful than a 300-hp-per-tick Renew of a powerful decked-out raiding Priest without Improved Renew but a crapstorm of +heal gear. That's just stupid.
-Bolty
This is a talent spec designed for raid healing. If I were more into PvP, it would of course be completely different.
OMG, why no Improved Renew or Spiritual Healing? Well, any Priest who's been raiding for a while as a pure healer can tell you why: the points are better spent elsewhere. The reason for this is because these talents don't stack with +healing. While +damage talents will stack up with +damage gear, +healing talents don't stack with +healing gear.
So if I have +500 healing (not hard to get for a raiding healer), and my Renew heals for 1000, it will heal for 1500 without talent points. It will heal for 1650 with talent points - NOT 1725. As you get more and more +heal gear, the total percentage improvement of the +heal talents becomes less and less. This isn't to say that I wouldn't want the +heal talents, I would, but not at the cost of some of the more useful stuff out there: talents that change the core functionality and power of the Priest, not just supply a little more +heal. Game-changing talents.
Crits are huge. It's not just the coolness that is Inspiration. People think about crits the wrong way, really. Sometimes it's overhealing, but if you're especially raining down heals on tanks (think BWL), it's often not. Crits are really "free" 50% extra healing. If there were a talent that said "chance of healing your target for 50% more for free," I think more healers would consider it seriously. That's what a crit is - it's free healing. Tack Inspiration on top of it and you've got a big bonus.
A newly minted 60 Priest would get a lot more bang out of Improved Renew and Spiritual Guidance than a decked-out raiding Priest with +600 healing gear. I'd rather have the extra mana from Mental Strength, though - which, btw, stacks with gear and buffs; multiplicative effects for the win.
I'm also just not impressed by Lightwell at all (on paper); nor does Power Infusion excite me (sorry Mages). If I were PvP spec'ed, maybe...
Anyhow, it's been a longstanding complaint of Priests that talents for +healing don't factor in +healing gear. Many Priests with lots of +heal gear spec OUT of Improved Renew, and then have to suffer seeing "A more powerful spell is already active" because Blizzard's game code considers a 200-hp-per-tick Renew of a newly minted 60 Priest with Improved Renew more powerful than a 300-hp-per-tick Renew of a powerful decked-out raiding Priest without Improved Renew but a crapstorm of +heal gear. That's just stupid.
-Bolty
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