Arena Priest Spec

[Nitsujcm]

Ok, short and long of it is, I have come to the conclusion I just don’t like raid healing. I did the same thing when we were raiding MC- I just quit playing my main and all my time on my alts. I like healing 5 mans and I used to like 10 mans (UBRS) – but IDK, I just start to loath runs and eventually can’t talk myself into signing up. (Hell, I have only been to 2 or 3 Kara runs) I can’t fully explain it, but Bah- it is what it is.

I have always like pvp, but I really like the arenas. I am in a 3vs3 team and would love to get in a 5vs5 team. I started arenas in shadow and found I was super squishy. Discipline worked much better because my survivability shot through the roof. Wow- I really really like Arena healing.

So… no more instance or raid healing for a while…New focus… you know what that means…

Time to respec

Survivability, healing… and dmg?

So here is the spec I’m gonna go with – what do you think?
My focus has shifted from lots of mana and decent heals, to high survivability and being capable of doing some dmg when needed. From what I have seen so far, I never need huge heals and for the arena, our goal is to make the fights quick, so mana isn’t a focus.


Here it is – Reflective shield mixed with pain suppression and a power infused mind flay… how many 70s can say that? : )

42/2/17 (all sites I can find at work aren’t linkable)

Discipline - 42 points
Unbreakable Will - rank 5/5
Improved Power Word: Fortitude - rank 2/2
Improved Power Word: Shield - rank 3/3
Martyrdom - rank 2/2
Inner Focus - rank 1/1
Meditation - rank 3/3
Improved Inner Fire - rank 3/3
Mental Agility - rank 4/5
Improved Mana Burn - rank 2/2
Mental Strength - rank 5/5
Power Infusion - rank 1/1
Reflective Shield - rank 5/5
Enlightenment - rank 5/5
Pain Suppression - rank 1/1

Holy - 2 points
Healing Focus - rank 2/2

Shadow - 17 points
Blackout - rank 5/5
Improved Shadow Word: Pain - rank 2/2
Shadow Focus - rank 5/5
Improved Psychic Scream - rank 2/2
Mind Flay - rank 1/1
Shadow Reach - rank 2/2
:afro:

[Shellar]

At the moment, Blessed Resilience/Blessed Recovery/Martyrdom combo provides far better survivability than Pain Suppression/Reflective Shield. This may change with 2.1, however.

[Nitsujcm]

Martyrdom is on my list for sure, but I run with two rogues and a F.Druid - they would Kill me if I took away their reflective sheild. They love the thing more than my heals. lol.

I do see your point though - the problem is, even before the patch- all the arena gear is big on resil. which combats crits- and if I have a lot of resil, thus taking out the crit factor by a large margin - Blessed Resilience/Blessed Recovery are nill.

[Idol]

Use the armoury, check out what all the top priests are.

They all agree with Shellar.

[Modred]

Haven't played my priest since BC came out, but it seems to me like your build is sound.

[semisonic9]

While I agree Absorb Pain is getting better, on that long a cooldown, it's still not that great.

Reflective shield isn't that hot either, imo.

There's a reason I don't pvp with my Priest anymore, heh.

~Semi

[jazlich]

That spec would rock except you are a big glowing light begging to be dispelled.

Thats why guys went as Shellar suggests.

And yup shadow sucks in Arena because of insane squisiness.
Whoda thunk it: raids would want shadow priests and pvp teams would want holy.....