healing priest profile

[sheepy]

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/priest/talents.html?505200013000000000000235051032300150531051000000000000000000000


I think that this should b an effective build

[Nefertem]

Came up with the same built when I looked at it, except I had the two points from Lightwell and Holy nova in Healing Prayers instead..

[TeaLeaf]

Link does not work for me.  Try re-adding it and putting the [/url] at the end and [url] at the start of it.

TL.

[Nefertem]

Gotta combine the upper and the lower part manually.. other wise a '%' will get into the middle and give a dead link..


or click here.

[Bastet]

Looks good, but i woulda done the same as nef i recon.

[TeaLeaf]

I like that profile a lot.  A most excellent raiding priest profile.

TL.

[Crystaline]

Ok lets put this build to the test... Just respecced to it (exactly), lets see if the previously worthless lightwell will now be able to contribute something positive

[TeaLeaf]

Personally I think with lightwell it is less a case of 'will lightwell be positive' and more a case of 'anything else is even less beneficial to the raid'.  Lightwell is never a main healing option, but it is the better of some bad choices that need to be made when speccing for raid healing.  

Consider the alternatives:

• Healing prayers (possibly the best alternative option but both these affected spells are very little used so the point gives you 10% mana reduction of a zero cost)
• Surge of Light - LOL - when does your raid healer use Smite?
• Blessed Resilience - err, if you're getting hit regularly (and it needs to be hit regularly to get any benefit from this talent) then tbh it's game over as priests do not have the stamina to get hit repeatedly - so this is a wipe talent.
• Searing Light - no benefit to raid healing whatsoever
• Blessed Recovery - LOL - a renew heals for more than this talent would
• Spell Ward - another wipe talent - if you're being hit then you're tanking!

If you switch to looking at the other trees the choices are equally inspiring:

• Wand Specialisation?
• Martyrdom - another wipe talent - you've already got 70% chance to avoid interupts and this only works if you get crit damaged and then only for 6 seconds.  Not exactly a regular occurence.
• PWS - increase your PWS daamge absorbed by 5%?  That's almost nothing.
• Absolution - reduced dispelling mana costs by 5%?  Not exactly a huge benefit.

So as you can see the question is more a case of what else would you use the talent point for that would actually benefit the raid?
 
TL.