Discipline in WotLK raiding?
2008-08-17 at 01:50:41 | In World of Warcraft | 10 CommentsTags: priest, World of Warcraft, WotLK
Since this post seems to have become quite popular in recent days, please remember that it has been written months ago!
Due to the talent Grace (have a peek over here) it seems blizzard wants discipline priests in WotLK raids.
To recap: The current incarnation of Grace reduces damage taken by 6% and increases healing done by 6% when we set a disc priest to do tank-healing.
To me, this is just crap.
Our former PvP talent tree, which was (actually since this is only the beta, it still ist ^^) a very nice talent tree – is now bended to be forcefully included in raids. The one problem with this: If you wanna raid as a disc, you will still specc a helluva lot different than a pvp disc priest!
So, we force someone to take a crap healing specc to get grace?
GREAT.
(and yes, disc sucks for PvE – no 16% freecasts for example…..)
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huh?? were probably gonna be the most efficient tank healers come wotlk. its not just about grace. were a damage mitigation spec…we going mana back from everything we shield (including a nice free shield that procs off crits), grave is stacked on a one cast of penance. were still amazing in pvp. and now were pve viable to a massive extent…
Comment by ouli — 2008-11-02 #
“2008-08-17 at 01:50:41″
today is “2008-11-02 at 20:30″
Comment by dionadar — 2008-11-02 #
Speced disc on my priest as soon as 3.0 hit, and they are incredibly good for single target heals. A single penance heals more than a greater heal, also all single target heals and bubbles return mana from rapture. After healing kara along with a coh priest, I had beaten him on healing meters by about 8% and only gone oom once, after being in the green beam at Netherspite. This is in mostly blues with 550 spellpower.
Comment by Anonymous — 2008-11-10 #
Yes, by now disc is a viable PvE spec for single target healing – although everyone with a little bit of sense still distinguishes between PvE Disc and PvP Disc.
Penance hits for 3x 1700 = 5100
and GHeal for about 6200 for me, this is unbuffed at roughly 1200-1400 (depending on specc) spellpower in tier 6 gear.
Comment by dionadar — 2008-11-10 #
Sorry, my friend
Disc is actually going to be “the” PvE build in Wrath. It simply has more tools.
Holy will be useful in raids, but truthfully I see Guardian Spirit as a PvP talent. Outside of progression raiding how often do you need a beefed up version of shield wall?
And god knows I won’t miss the CoH spamming.
Comment by Gordo — 2008-11-12 #
“And god knows I won’t miss the CoH spamming.”
I still do not get why the f*** blizzard had to break this thing by making it “smart”…
“Outside of progression raiding [..]”
What do I care what happens outside of progression raiding?
However, currently Disc is the easier to play specc simply because it is quite hard to go OOM – well, we have to see what happens at 80.
(And by going OOM I do not neccissarily mean STAYING oom…)
Comment by dionadar — 2008-11-12 #
Your kidding right? A disc priest can solo heal the tank on OS 3D…
And with upcoming content patch, magic damage will be very evident, so they will be even more valuable…
Just a heads up guys, if your guild doesnt have at LEAST one disc priest… GET ONE!!!
Comment by Pakserian — 2009-02-24 #
you do realize that this post is a good 3 months old, right?
aside from that: we don’t have a disc priest but we still do sarth3d.
Comment by dionadar — 2009-02-24 #
TBH, i’ve seen 0 (zero) pve disc priests so far on our realm at least.
whilst I read about “THE pve main tank”-healer to be the pve disc priest, i still doubt it.
But i’m curious in trying out, some day
in the end, we still have zero pve disc priests (I know of) on our realm.
can you link me one? i’d be happy
Comment by trapni — 2009-04-02 #
A quick armory search on my realm gave this guy http://armorylite.com/eu/madmortem/cydriel/ as one of the top equipped disc priests.
I have to admit I do not know him/her, so no guarantees that equip is earned through skill
Comment by dionadar — 2009-04-02 #