Håkon wrote:Hi, I am currently playing holy priest pve, and I have some question concerning "the new priest" in holy.
Classic priest used to be about haste+spirit, now it seems holy priest is mostly about aoe healing. I have followed up with the new priest, having spirit+crit as my main stats, and little haste. I never enchant or gem crit, I just make sure most the gear items I get have that stat on them. My main focus in enchanting/gemming, is having most spirit, but still filling all socket bonuses
Yellow Socketspots - 10 Intellect + 10 Spirit (Seer's Eye of Zul)
I focus alot on mana, therefore spirit, and I dont like gemming crit or haste, so I consider that gem in yellow socketspots the best for me when having socketbonus aswell.
Red Socketspots - 12 Spell Power + 10 Spirit (Purified Dreadstone)
Best for me when having socketbonus.
Blue Socketspots - 20 Spirit (Sparkling Majestic Zircon)
For my enchants I usually go with what gives best benefit to my mana, but where choosing Spirit/mp5/int means I am replacing a stat where I would usually benefit more from like having 10 + spirit on back instead of 23 haste and having 18spirit on Wrist instead of 30sp, then I think its better to go with the stat I benefit most from.
Glyphs - Glyph of Prayer of Healing, Glyph of Shadowfiend, Glyph of Circle of Healing, Glyph of Shadow Protection, Glyph of Flash Heal and Glyph of Levitate.
When Healing I mostly throw Aoe Spells - PoH, CoH, PoM and DoH!
So therefore in my talents I have choosen to spend talent points elsewhere then using them on Empowered Healing, many would think that is one of the most important of priest talents and avoiding it would be idiotic, but I dont think it fits for the new priest, which is mostly about AoE Healing.
I dont know whats the best for the new priest, and if this is correct. I am hoping you can reply to me with other suggestions for gear/talents/glyphs if you have any, so I can improve my healing, for me, this is the new priest I believe, but I am not sure, and I would want to know any way of improving if there is any.
This new priest have worked fine so far, I use Poh, Coh, PoM and renew most of the time, and there is always alot of overhealing from this, but still good healing, it works good, I can make good healing from it, but I would still like to improve more and learn how to build talent/gear/glyphs and learn more about rotation. There aint any main rotation for HP I know, but just come with any suggestions so I can improve!
Thanks for reading.
Håkon - EU Trollbane
Sup Håkon, I gotta be honest with you. I dont see any sense in your gemming + glyphs. Why do you gem spirit+int. I very much doubt that you'll ever run out of mana with your gear and the current icc buff.
About glyphs, as you stated above, you mostly throw out aoe heals, so why would you glyph for flash heal if it isnt your main heal. You should also consider switching glyph of prayer of healing out to renew/guardian spirit.
If your maingoal is to play efficiently, go and check out the gemming&spec&glyphs of me and Jhazrun. I understand that some people like playing to be more about fun than progress, which usually means that they will gem for haste, as 1sec flash heal and poh are pretty damn cool. But gemming spirit, I see no fun or efficient in doing so.