The Gearing Process to ToC 10 for a Priest

This is a guest post by Aleph, who chronicled his early end game gearing process. Upon levelling my priest to level 80 and looking at joining my guild’s raid team as a healer, I found that I hit a barrier where I simply had no means of gaining any new gear that would get me …

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Shadow Priests Are Allowed to Divine Hymn

Yesterday’s post on hybrids spawned a great discussion on when it becomes useful for DPS players to switch out to different roles. Today, I wanted to expand it further and delve into the topic of Priests. Now according to the Rules of Raiding #77: DPS and tanking players should not have to heal. It’s a …

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Discover How Priests Gain 7000 Mana in 1 Shot

Psssst! Want to hear a secret? Did you know Priests can maintain a near limitless amount of mana? It’s very possible. But it does abuse a certain in game mechanic. This post is just for educational purposes only. I’m not here to encourage you to knowingly abuse game mechanics. Wynthea has this deluded idea that …

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Priest Guide: Part 2 – How to Build Holy

So now that you know what each talent is, does, and have a basic idea of when it’s most effective, let’s take a look at how to build a spec: Step 1: To start, plug in those mandatory 14 points: Twin Disciplines – 5 Improved Inner Fire – 3 Improved Power Word: Fortitude – 2* …

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Healing Priest Guide: Part 1 – Talents

In 3.1, PvE Priests are in a good place. We have two distinct and raid-viable healing specs, and enough good places to put our talents that you can make arguments for several “cookie-cutter” builds. When I first started rooting around in the WoW-blogosphere, I came upon a post over at Dwarfpriest that laid out each …

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