Holy/Disc damage/healing hybrid for a burnt out shadow player.

Post by tao3927

Buddy of mine is getting burnt-out/disheartened with shadow. His gear isn't that great and he's jealous of my prot warrior doing all the slammin. He's looking into just going for a healing/damage hybrid to keep me up for mass quest grinding (kill 15 boars? ok, lets round up all up and tank em all down) and also to keep a bit of damage potential in case we need to try to burn thing(s) down ASAP. I did a bit of playing around and came up with this:

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=bVIbuhMzbxZfxt0bbqbZh

It seems to have a bit of tree synergy and might even help him up his spellpower some to make up for mediocre gear. It looks to also keep him from having to stop and drink as much, which is another thing that bugs him with his shadow priest. Thoughts?

Post by Pachuca

No offense but that spec will neither make him good at DPS or healing. If he's tired of shadow then tell him to spec Discipline. Reflective shield, Power Infusion and Holy Nova are really fun to play around with and he will be able to AOE down mobs pretty quickly. Pop a shadowfiend and his mana won't even decrease while he's spamming Holy Nova. I don't know what it's like for warriors, but going halfway down any talent tree is just bad for a priest.

Oh, and he won't need spirit tap either.

Post by tao3927

Usually I'm one to not advocate staying below the 31 point talents myself, but this is purely for a levelling build (levelling through questing only with a prot warrior - no instances). Once he hits 80, he'll spec out to something else, but on the way there this seems to me to be the best thing to let him do what he wants to do. The two trees and spirit tap give him more spell power with more spirit, and that also has the added effect of increased mana regen.

Optimally, he'll never get hit by mobs, so reflective shield is wasted (and to spec it just to put it on me seems wasted when I have my own DS). PI seems to be more of a 15s toy to play with (more situational than constantly used). There's nothing for holy nova in discipline, so there's no need to spec deep disc just to jump around with holy nove, and having buttloads of spirit (proccing spirit tap on kills) only increases regen AND spellpower (if spamming holy nova is in fact the spell to build around)

If there are other reasons to spec pure disc, let me know, but we aren't an arena team (so the survival aspect of disc isn't needed), and disc looks to be more healing than damage (and yes I know you can't do both well if that's what is chosen).

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Post by Samanosuke

For AoE grinding, Holy Nova reigns supreme.
You don't need Spirit Tap, because you can simply drink after a huge pull. Also...since you are AoEing them down at the same rate...It would proc at the end when it is needed the least.

The main empahsis of this build is to gather up swarms of enemies, pop Power Infusion/trinkets, let loose a storm of Holy Nova, and kill large groups of enemies at a time.

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=bVcbdhxtr0oZfxt0cbqb

PW:S is there to help shield you/the tank if it looks like the healing from Holy Nova isnt keeping up with the incoming dmg. It will provide enough absorbtion to be able to catch up.

Enlightenment isnt needed so much as Holy Nova is instant cast, and the spirit gain would be pretty marginal...spamming Holy Nova doesn't leave much time for regen. For this reason, Mental Strength is taken in its place to gain a greater mana pool and more crit.

Power Infusion will allow him to cast Holy Nova cheaper and faster.

Focused Power obviously increased the dmg output.

Improved Divine Spirit, while not a good raid buff as it doesnt stack with shaman totems, helps while leveling individually.

Surge of Light is just there to help in those times of having to dps single targets down.

Improved healing adds some dungeon healing capability.

As I was leveling...I was able to AoE down swarms of enemies at a time. Even without the +10% from searing light, Holy Nova has the power to down groups at a time. This build should provide more than you need to tank and aoe down groups.

Best part is...Holy nova causes no threat. Also, priest doesn't even need a tank for holy nova grinding as holy nova heals as well as dmgs.
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On a side note....

DPSing as Holy/Disc is a terrible Idea....at least for dungeon bosses/raids.

As holy/disc, there are absolutely no talents that increase hit chance, so you will need like 446 hit rating or you will miss a huge percentage of the time.

Added onto that....Unlike every other caster that has some sort of mana regen (Evocation, Lifetap) Holy/Disc only has Shadowfiend, which will leave you OOM.

The only real viability that Holy/Disc has for raid DPS potential is Holy Nova spamming on trash pulls. Because then atleast, when the priest is OOM they can drink up for next pull.

Im pretty sure that you were asking for a Holy DPS leveling build, so all of this is moot though.

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Post by tao3927

Yeah, that may work pretty well (IDS/SG). I'll play around with that concept and point it out to him. I'll probably try to juggle some points around to get full spirit tap. That way I can dps one mob down, then switch targets and hold off on AE damage so he gets a good chance of the kill shot on it (pumping his spirit up). Thanks for the input.

And yes, it's just for levelling. :)

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Holy/Disc damage/healing hybrid for a burnt out shadow player.

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