by ALEX ZIEBART
We’re getting to the point in Wrath where more than just the hardcorestof the hardcore are raiding. Not everyone is there (and not everyone is interested), but the time will come. On the way there, you’re going to have to visit an old friend: The hit cap.
In Wrath of the Lich King, the hit cap has moved from the original 16% to 17% hit. Why? Prior to this expansion, there was a baseline 1% chance to miss with spells that you could not remove. No matter how much hit rating you had, you were stuck with a 1% chance to miss. In Wrath, that’s gone. It can be overcome.
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by MATT LOW
Trinkets are interesting items. They have different abilities and uses best suited for the situation at hand. Here is the majority of trinkets that I believe us healers would be interested in the most and my initial thoughts on them. I’ve even recommended a few of them for us Priests!
Soul Preserver: Kill Mal’Ganis in CoT: Stratholme, and you might get this decent trinket. This one of the first trinkets I acquired at 80 and it served me well. I had a lot of mana problems early on and this helped ease the pain. Resto Druids may wish to look at this trinket as well. I don’t know if it procs off of HoT ticks or just spell casts. Comments on WoW Head reveal that it has no internal cooldown either. It can also proc off of every jump from Chain Heal for the Resto Shamans.
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by MATT LOW
When I finished off Grizzly Hills, I was a few bars into 75. To be fair, I did run a few normal instances to knock out the quests that were within them. In this week’s post, I’ll give you a quick glance of the last areas and what you can start working on once you reach 80 (such as instances and gearing for raids).
Zones of interest
Zul’Drak – Priests will have a field day in this zone. On one side, you’re going up against Scourge forces trying to take over the Troll capital. On the other side, there’s renegade Trolls running loose. Your Shackle Undead is going to come in great use here if find yourself getting overrun and overwhelmed.
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by MATT LOW
Welcome to Northrend! Ready to take on Arthas? Here is a quick primer on the road to 80. For part 1, we’ll look at an example leveling spec (which isn’t Shadow), early spells, different zones, and some tips.
Spec
My personal spec of choice has always been to go a combination of Holy and Discipline. I can still maintain a decent pace soloing and I can still remain viable in instance healing. Believe me, as a non-Shadow Priest leveling, there will never be a shortage of players looking for healers for an instance.
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Only the best Personal&Team rating-free Arena/Honor item will be listed per slot (only exceptions are some items with +hit).
Several crafted healing items are omitted because a better crafted damage item exists at the same level of progression.
Healing tier-items are only listed if they are better than their damage equivalent, same goes for items you can buy for emblem of heroism/valor.
If an item exists that should make the rankings and isn’t excluded due to one of the above reasons, then follow the instructions at the bottom of this post to have it added.
Links in green are healing items.
Numbers in red are the value of an item’s proc.
Numbers in orange are the value of an item when including hit.
Numbers in bold indicate that the item moves to #1 when the relevant set bonuses and/or hit are considered.
Items in purple are lvl 70 items with their rating adjusted for lvl80, they’re only listed if they’re better than the worst lvl 80 item in this slot.
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Operating outside the 5 second rule - uptime optimisation for Priests
terminology:
OO5SR - out of 5 second rule
I5SR - inside 5 second rule
IF - Inner Focus (talent)
GH - Greater Heal
FH - Flash Heal
GCD’s - Global CoolDowns
PoH - Prayer of Healing
CoH - circle of healing
SOL - Surge Of Light
HC - Holy Concentration
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When Mind Sear is used with inner focus, The mana cost is reduced 100% and it gains a 25% crit chance per tick. This part is intentional. Now for the little bug, The first time you use mind sear, it isn’t consumed, not sure how many times you can use it, but I’ve had a free 25% crit mind sear 3 times in a row before. Just cast it as normally and let it channel, near the end (1 second remaining) recast it.
Tl;Dr for those who want this in steps
Step 1: Cast Inner Focus
Step 2: Cast Mind sear, let channel until 1 sec remaining
Step 3: Recast Mind sear
Repeat.
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SPEC as this being a guide would really suggest going 50/11/0 right now due to penance being a channeled spell(NO SELF CAST) and you must be infront of the person, it is a cheap greater heal, but I feel as being the target most of the time Desperate Prayer in the Holy Tree is better for the instant 3k heal. Borrowed TIme is very nice as you gain that talent your PWS is now able to absorb over 2.5k dmg depending on your Spell Power and a 25% haste on the next cast after that is quite nice for fake casting.
Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft SPEC
Current Arena Comps that Work for us now 2s ! most of the cookie cutters still exist after the release of 3.0. One difference is that mostly all dps classes have a huge increase in dmg and healers are some what gimped right now so full dps teams are being favored now.
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Since 3.0.3, (the patch today) Borrowed time was changed to not go away for instant casts, and increase the spell haste of the next CAST. But, it now is bugged and doesn’t go away on instant casts, but it also reduces the Global cooldown as well. Just thought you priests skipping out on this might want to try the talent, this isn’t a repost, this is not working as intended, read the talent if you think it is working as intended.
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