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Why not to spec #1 Priest as Shadow
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What an interesting debate. I can't remember levelling my priest originally because it was 2 years ago, but I do remember the 60-70 stuff.
I personally hate shadow, so try to avoid speccing it at all costs (much to my holydins irritation, before the mana nerf). I did 60-70 with half a dozen respecs, but when you get some +dmg gear smite isn't a joke anymore. Now, thanks to the 1/3 dmg from healing buff, I solo quests quite happily. In a full healing set (only epics being the primal mooncloth set) I throw out 1k+ smite hits, which isn't bad for a 2 second cast...
Staying holy while lvling isn't the big issue it used to be.
A couple of other points that really annoyed me:
Shadow priests do NOT heal as well as holy priests, by far. I've seen the raid healing meters with me, a shadow priest in full epic healing gear and a full epic resto druid. In shadow spec, I failed hard. In holy spec, I beat the druid.
Why do people still quote their +healing like it's some kind of penis extention? It's not how big it is, it's how long you last guys. Ask your girlfriend, or raid leader. "Should it be really big but over in 2 minutes, or small but last as long as you want?". So no, I'm not impressed by your +healing, and yes, I enjoy the /w I get "Why the hell don't you use any mana?"
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what he is basicly saying is as a healer u are garbage if u respec at 70 trust me its not as easy as some think i agree please if u plan on being holy at 70 respec to holy at 60 and instance grind to 70 or pair up with a heavy dps class when u questing and offer to heal pre 60 i am a decnt healer because ei have leveled a paladin and a shammy to 60 shammy went resto at 25 paladin holy day 1 ret adds like no dps so u still suck at killing
damn dude. learn to punctuate.
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Walay
People that say a discipline priest runs out of OOM quickly have never, ever, played decently with a discipline priest, plain and simple.
I leveled all the way to 70 with discipline build, it wasn't my first char, already leveled a ton of other chars, and I can ensure that when it comes to mana efficience, discipline build rocks.
Of course, you can't play discipline as you do shadow, that's the main mistake, people want to keep casting and casting while playing discipline.
I could hold up to 3 or 4 mobs considerable easy, without having mana problems, with a simple skill rotation.
Power Word : Shield
Shadow Word : Pain (on all mobs)
Focus wand dps on one
If needed, and the situation allows it, you can keep using psychic scream, remember, the duration on all ranks is the same, so, if you want to fear only one or two mobs, use rank 1.
Also, your gear must be focused on spirit, that way you'll end up having a lot of mana regen, keeping spirit tap on almost all the time.
This is the build I used and recomend :
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=bVMuzIMtbxqZZxMgz0to
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True, but those who level in Shadow Form most often rely on someone else to heal for them (more often than not filling a dps slot in a group). Not saying they can't because of spec. I'm saying because of their chosen attributes, healing SKILLS are not all that there when they aren't in the position to heal. Sure a Shadow Priest can nab +heal gear, or use dps/heal gear, and sure a Shadow Priest can drop Shadow Form. But in the average group, they haven't or haven't had the need to until they respec anyways.
I leveled as a shadow priest and I always healed five mans. At lower levels my healing was way more useful than my dps and if I wanted to quickly find a group, I had to heal.
Shadow priests are perfectly capable of healing instances. There's no need to gimp yourself while leveling by going holy. You won't somehow magically be a better healer at 70 by leveling holy, but you'll likely be more frustrated healer.
Don't get me wrong, I'm holy now and I'm not knocking the healing tree, but this idea that being shadow makes one a crappy healer is flat out wrong. It's possible to be holy, level as holy, eat, sleep and crap holy and STILL be a lousy healer. The holy tree does not automatically confer expert healer status to those that spec in it.
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