Priest

[Damien 1,514]

This thread is for comments about our Priest class overview for WotLK Classic.

[lmueller 0]

Thanks for the Disc guide! A couple of notes though:

Flash Heal (and the Imp Flash Heal talents and FH Glyph) are very inferior in both HPS and HPM to Greater Heal with Divine Fury. And the difference between FH and GH gets even wider with Haste. Greater Heal heals for 110% more than FH baseline, but the HPS is roughly balanced because of the cast time difference. But moments of high Haste such as Hero, Engi Gloves, Potion of Speed, Scale of Fates, Egg of Mortal Essence, etc, cause GH to pull WAY ahead of FH as it approaches the GCD cap. So a Divine Fury + Greater Heal build that stacks Haste items like mentioned above will pull significantly more HPS than FH, to the point where you can enable your raid to drop healers in favor of more DPS to end fights before the Disc goes OOM. This same thinking applies to Prayer of Healing vs PW:S spamming as well. PoH spam stacking Haste effects will massively outperform Shield spamming during high raid aoe moments.

 

This guide needs to be modified accordingly as it encourages a significantly inferior playstyle that has been holding the Disc community back for a while now. Players have recently discovered the weaknesses of the build recommended in this guide and have started abandoning it in favor of the playstyle I mentioned above, and this guide should be updated accordingly. In particular, it should be updated to include Scale of Fates as a BiS trinket option since the Haste proc does not go to waste with the proper build and playstyle. The talent guide should also be updated to take Divine Fury instead of Imp Flash Heal, and Glyph of Prayer of Healing over Glyph of Flash Heal. Lastly, consider making a note that it is possible to use a Holy spec, drop a Lightwell, then switch to Disc and the Lightwell doesn't despawn. If used properly on certain fights like Vezax or XT, this could actually make Glyph of Lightwell a viable and even optimal glyph choice for Disc that can allow them to easily solo heal many fights.