Thanks everyone for all the great feedback!
That’s an understatement. Low healing, extra long cooldown, HoT breaks on damage, only 5 charges, and is stationary so it sucks even for solo content.
Yeah every iteration of lightwell sucked. Its why they finally gave up and removed it.
Disc is not disc as you think it is. You heal like a holy priest as disc you just buff different abilities. Usually one priest went into disc in a raid for the Divine Spirit buff and improved Fort.
It could have been fine though. Remove the cooldown, or let the HoTs do their thing through damage. It’s not game breaking and would actually be useful. I just don’t know what the devs were thinking when they made the ability weak and castrated at the same time for a 31 point talent.
I always saw disc priests even while leveling and healing dungeons, priest would go into disc for the spirit buff as well.
Holy was designed around your holy spells while disc decreases your mana costs and increase your buffs it is like arcane for mage but it probably builds the priest up more with the wand and resistant talents and the spell that prevented you from getting interrupted.
So its better then holy by improving you in different ways while it is not focused on improving you holy spells so you would get less out of those spells in general and have less protection in some ways that can be found in the holy tree.
They fine.
I do plan to roll with Horde (undead) this time around and I actually loved renew on Holy during my Wrath days. I found it was a really efficient heal that could take some of the pressure off, knowing that with it ticking, I might get that extra second(s) needed to keep the group alive lol
Yeah I would for sure use it leveling if you do some dungeons, worth figuring out how it works with aggro. It can kind of be pain if it ticks on start of pull and tank hasn’t demo shouted or aoe threat gen cause it will pull aggro so worth learning that.
It has really great mana/health efficiency ratio but that’s negated by someone being topped off which is why in raids it looses value. In a raid healing scenario everyone is trying to cast/cancel so if someone drops 10% you can bet someone is casting a healing that is going to cover 20%.
Play whatever you like really though figure out your own meta and play style that suits you and your group, you will never make a mistake 50 gold can’t fix.
So long as you use a little common sense, it isn’t THAT hard to have a workable spec.
Will it be THE META? Maybe and maybe not, but workable means you’re not stupid enough to be 0/51/0 Holy.
Then blizzard fool proofed it then as you can only invest 47 points into holy.
You covered everything I would have written in both your pots. EXACTLY!
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