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My Unforgetable Experience As A Full-shadow• Well,until you get to end-game raid content it really doesn't matter what your spec is, as you won't be hurt significantly in the healing department for any five-man you come across. As a full-shadow spec right now, I'm currently doing Blackrock Depths and have no trouble keeping my party alive, so long as they do things right. Now, where specs come into play is that I can't pull out a miraculous save should somebody screw up royally; if our mage suddenly pulls aggro, my GHeal is often just too slow to save them unless I pop a shield, and even then I have to hope they have enough armor to let that shield hold while I cast -- and in any case it blows through a lot of my mana to do that. • As a full-shadow regularly healing 5-man instances, after being pure Holy up to level 40 (respecced for shadowform, mmmm), I can say that the only real difference is that I sometimes need to pop a mana potion near the tail-end of some of the harder pulls. But, so long as your team isn't screwing up every pull and you actually have a sense of how to heal properly (Shield is a last-resort emergency, favor GHeal and wait, etc.), non-Holy priests can heal just fine. And in my case, I'm supplementing; I'm speccing into Shadow up to Vampiric Touch, and then dumping the rest of my points into Holy for the faster cast times, more efficient spells, and buffed healing. • Where spec comes into play is the end-game content, where you really need to pick between being DPS or healing. At those levels, the raw efficiency gains of Holy/Disc over Shadow for healing means that a Holy/Disc priest is going to be a LOT better at healing than a Shadow priest. But, up to that point, you can pretty much spec how you please and do just fine with a bit of finesse. • It's like I've said before in another thread, with regards to the whole "priests are a broken class and worthless next to Paladins blah blah blah" stuff: Yes, we are not as good as other classes for the kinds of healing needed in instances. But we are still fully capable of healing those instances with no problems whatsoever. |




