Divine musings of a Holy Priest

WoW Insider Blog: Spiritual Guidance

Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy, and shadow priests.  

Another really awesome priest blog.  They update more than Raid Rx and have great info!

Best Holy Priest Stats Cataclysm Patch 4.1 by Vanman

Here is the stat priority you’ll want to pay attention to while getting gear, gemming out items, getting enchants, reforging, etc.

1. Intellect – This is your top mega chi stat.  You’ll want to stack on as much intellect as you can.  Of course this consists of ensuring all your gear has intellect (this is easy) but also ensure when doing gems and enchants that you sneak as much intellect in as you can.
2. Spirit – This is your second stat to intellect.  When picking your gear make sure that you choose the gear that always has spirit as a secondary stat, this is your gear.  You may also choose to stat spirit on through enchants, gems, etc, but keep in mind that intellect is your priority.
3. Haste – Yes, haste is the next stat in priority, for best results you’ll want to get your haste to 12.5% to grab more renew, remember you can be buffed to reach that 12.5% so you might not need as much haste as you think if that is your only goal with haste.  But in general, in my opinion, the more haste the better.
4. Next up is mastery, which you’ll want to focus on along with haste after you feel like you’ve pretty much got your haste stocked up good.
5. Crit, this is the last stat you’ll want to focus on, in fact I’d not bother trying to stock up on it at all.

Reforging

Reforging is very simple for the Holy Priest.  You’ll simply want to swap out any crit you have for haste or mastery.  Balance out your haste/mastery to whatever you feel you want to have.

(Source: vanmansguides.com)

Question: What healing blogs or forums do you follow?

Currently, I follow these blogs (list in progress as I find more hidden in the cracks of the Barrens):

Raid Rx: This is a blog by WoW Insider that has weekly posts about healing topics.  I really like them and think that they offer a lot of useful information.  Lately, their posts have focused on upcoming changes and new content.  Occasionally, they will discuss relevant topics and give advice you typically don’t get from guild members or other players on WoW.  They recently put out articles about how to prioritize combat resurrections, throughput & regeneration, when to wipe etc.  Definitely recommend following.

Tankspot: This popular group is always an amazing source of information for just about anything.  They have guides up the wazoo.  This is a link to their blogs, with options to browse popular ones and the blogs of their members.  Haven’t had much time to find one that is more dedicated to healing, yet, will soon.  

Healbot (not the addon): I actually just discovered this blog today.  They have a lot of posts all about healing.  Haven’t had much time to sift through their publications, but it looks promising.   

So, who do you follow?  Where do you get your information about healing?  

Raid Rx: Healing changes and Firelands thoughts

A list of healing abilities changing in 4.2.  For priests, nothing has changed, except a bug fix for Lightwell that would cancel some channeling spells when clicked.  But, for our healing friends, be sure to check this out because some of them will definitely affect you.  Also, Raid Rx offers some initial thoughts for healers on the new raid encounters in Firelands!

I’ll go over my thoughts about the proposed healing changes for patch 4.2. I also had the opportunity to try out some of the new raid encounters on the PTR in Firelands. Think you’re ready for the upcoming healing challenge?

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