I has a priestie dumb

[_dante_sparda_]

Okay, so. I have a tiny priestie who just hit 85 and has had only one spec since vanilla: Shadow. (Yes, I got kicked out of groups a lot just for not being a healer. Yes, it made for very lonely leveling.) Thanks to my love affairs with pallies, shammies and druids, I've acquired the habit of being an oshit healer when the occasion necessitated it

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[arwydd]

I am a discipline priest through and through (well, the part of me that isn't a prot warrior, that is!) and I wouldn't give it up for anything. It takes some skill to manage mana (timing Rapture procs, using Inner Focus on CD, and the standard Hymn of Hope/Shadowfiend) at low gear levels, but it's completely doable. My priest has been discipline since the day I rolled her 3 years ago - I even quested up to 85 in that spec. :p

I love the power of absorbs and perhaps it's a little e-peenish, but I get kinda giddy having the highest mana pool in raids. xD I'm sitting at 160k mana right now, and I'm still in a couple Firelands pieces... It makes our holy pally insanely jealous. :p That huge mana pool is what makes our regen so ridiculous, as Rapture is based of % mana.

But yeah, if you like mitigative healing - PW:S before large spikes of damage, stacking Divine Aegis through Prayer of Healing, etc - then disc is for you! Not to say that discipline doesn't have throughput; I easily keep pace with my raid's holy pally (we're talking within tenths of percentage points of each other in percent healing). And who doesn't like Grace on multiple targets? Or Penance? Or Power Infusion? Mmmmm and of course, there's Archangel!