Hi everyone! I wanted to discuss Disc Priest because I’ve seen a lot of WotLK players in my guild just overall disappointed with the state of it.
Strength of Soul: What a great way to burn your mana. PWS still has an extremely high mana cost for what you get out of it, and this talent doesn’t address that at all. I’ve seen disc priests go oom every single pull in dungeons and on trash in raids playing around this shield. Maybe this should reduce the mana cost of shield to allow you to use it without going oom to reduce the WS debuff and maintain it.
Renewed Hope: With Strength of Soul reducing the duration of Weakened Soul every heal, it clashes directly with this rune. You get maybe 2 heals before you need to spend the mana to cast shield again to get your crit, which makes me feel like you pick one or the other.
It feels like Blizz is afraid to make healers as exciting as the other roles.
Yeah. Disc is in a bad place for both world content and pvp. Killing mobs takes a half a mana bar and way to long. In pvp we get stomped on because of all the damage gear. And our mana goes by by way to fast. Instead of playing the game, I am just logging on for the raid because playing the rest of the content is terrible for disc right now. I hope they fix it because it’s a product of a way bigger issue. I would re-roll, but pvp is so broken right now, I am not sure it’s worth it. I could play Shadow, but I am a raid healer, and really don’t want to re-spec constantly.
And one other big issue. Why did they itemize gear in Gnomer with only + healing on it. It makes that gear useless for world questing, and pvp. Why not put damage and on alot more stamina on it too?
Huh? Disc is still by far the bis healer for both PvP and PvE. I highly doubt we would see any disc buffs especially before (for example) resto shaman.
Disc priests are fantastic healers but they do not play the same in SoD as they do in Wrath. Avoid PW:S unless emergency, penance and PoM on cd, use flash heal to fill, win. Good luck!
Disc isn’t, and never was, a top tier Vanilla healr for PVE. IF you brought a disc, it was for them to spirit buff, smite spam, and cast PI on pumpers. Like Subtlety for rogue, this spec is almost entirely for PVP.
Anyone saying their BIS for PVE is not looking at the actual talents top tier priests are running. They’re playing holy or a holy/disc hybrid.
Nope. At 40, you can’t go deep enough into holy to get the good stuff while still getting meditation out of the disc tree. You’ll go Holy/Disc next phase, but this phase you just got straight down disc because of the limited points.
I think people mostly go Disc for PI because of DPS parse culture and DPS wanting you to have PI for them.
I do think runes outside of PoM and penance and now dispersion and pain sup feel lackluster for priest, but because your good runes are so good, nobody wants to talk about any of their weaknesses.
I did think since phase 1 that strength of soul should either buff shield value or reduce the mana cost of shield.
Serendipity should reduce the mana cost of flash.
Spirit of the Redeemer is bad because it uses up a talent and rune slot where the other two runes only use up a rune slot and could be used alongside regular SoR.
Priests are the best PvE and PvP healer currently though so I wouldn’t expect any positive changes. The other healers would riot if priests got more before they got anything.
I play holy and took all but lightwell in SoD. I’m hitting 50k heals easily in boss fights. Not sure why folks dis on Holy priest. PoM and Penance are RUNES we can use it too lol
Appreciate the advice man, this is exactly the kind of thing I’m looking for. Just trying to learn more. What kind of gear setup are you running? +Healing or damage and healing gear?
Regardless of whether you decide to run Disc or Holy, though genuinely the Strength of meditation is severely overstated rn, you’ll always want +healing gear for priest, ideally that also has +int or +spirit, as holy gains additional spellpower from spirit while disc gains mp5 from spirit. Intellect is self-evident.
This is what I have been running, and preaching to my guild members. Do you take damage runes in raid as well? Or only push heals out? Trying to get an understanding of your gameplay
Disc Priest is arguably the strongest healer in the game, both for WPvP, Dungeons and Raids. Strength of Soul has it’s uses, and it scales better once tanks get more gear.
-The best buffs (stronger PWF, Prayer of Spirit)
-Quite durable on mana due to talents.
-Power Infusion for your casters.
-Instant cast spells cost less.
-Mana heavy as it is, PWS is quite nice in a pinch. It also has reduced cost from the previously mentioned talent.
-Combined with runes, we are extremely strong with abilities to cover any healing situation. Runes also benefit greatly from Disc tree, since most of them are instant cast.
Prayer of Mending, Circle of Healing, Penance, Empowered Renew, Pain Suppression, the list goes on. They all get buffs from the Discipline tree, namely reduced cost. In the mana heavy fights in Gnomeregan, those cost reductions do matter. A lot.