WoW Insider http://wow.joystiq.com WoW Insider http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/wow.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif WoW Insider http://wow.joystiq.com prods@weblogsinc.com (Weblogs, Inc. Producers) (Weblogs, Inc. Web Support) en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. View our terms of service here: http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/ Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/ <![CDATA[Diablo 3 Transmog Outfits for WoW: Deckard Cain, Leah, Witch Doctor, Barbarian]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/17/diablo-3-transmog-outfits-for-wow-deckard-cain-leah-witch-doc/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/17/diablo-3-transmog-outfits-for-wow-deckard-cain-leah-witch-doc/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/17/diablo-3-transmog-outfits-for-wow-deckard-cain-leah-witch-doc/#comments Image In honor of the release of Diablo III earlier this week, I've decided to dedicate my next two transmogrification articles to recreating the cast of the game. We'll start with the barbarian first -- but before we dive in, I have to tell you a quick story.

I used to know a mage who wore an enchanted Chef's Hat during raids. The first day he wore it to raid, someone asked him to take it off, but he wouldn't; it was his new favorite hat and he intended to wear it. This annoyed several people in the raid, who repeatedly told him to take the hat off, so the mage told them this: "When someone does more damage than me, I will put my other helm back on."

That day never came, so the hat stayed until he got bored of it.

I mention this story because you'd think with all the plate bikinis and mail hot pants in WoW, the task of assembling a barbarian's costume for a warrior or paladin would be simple. Alas, loincloths don't seem to be that popular with plate wearers, so you'll either have to put on some pants or convince your raid leader that you don't need pants to do your job.

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]]> barbariancloth-transmogcloth-transmogrificationdeckard-caindiablodiablo-3diablo-barbariandiablo-iiidiablo-witch-doctorleah-diabloleather-transmogleather-transmogrificationplate-transmogplate-transmogrificationtransmogtransmogrificationtransmogrify (Dawn Moore) Thu, 17 May 2012 10:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Spiritual Guidance: Lightwell, Lightspring, and the latest on priest healing in Mists]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/15/spiritual-guidance-lightwell-lightspring-and-the-latest-on-pr/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/15/spiritual-guidance-lightwell-lightspring-and-the-latest-on-pr/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/15/spiritual-guidance-lightwell-lightspring-and-the-latest-on-pr/#comments Image Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers the healing side of things for discipline and holy priests. She also writes for LearnToRaid.com and produces the Circle of Healing Podcast.

Well, we got it. I never thought I'd see the day, but we finally got the Trial of the Crusader Lightwell that shoots heals at allied players instead of requiring them to click. Holy priests will gain access to the new Lightwell, called Lightspring, using a glyph of the same name. Before you get too excited, however, I should mention that there is a catch. Apparently, automatic Lightwells don't heal for nearly as much as a manual ones do, so depending on the fight and your raid members' ability to use the Lightwell in the first place, you may choose to skip the Glyph of Lightspring now and again.

Good ol' Derevka has already written up a thorough first look at Lightspring in which he points out many of the spell's limitations. In the post, he points out that Lightspring only heals targets at less than 50% of their health, and it has a 5-second cooldown between heals to prevent it from being used as a raid cooldown. To read the rest of Derevka's write-up and see his comparisons on the numerical output of the two spells, head over to Tales of a Priest.

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]]> atonementchakraconfessiondisc-priest-spiritual-guidancediscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancedivine-aegisDivine-insightfjola-lightbaneghostcrawlerglyph-of-confessionglyph-of-holy-resurrectionglyph-of-the-heavensglyph-of-valkyrholy-priest-spiritual-guidanceholy-resurrectionlightspringlightwellPower-word-shieldpriest-glyphsrapturespirit-shellval-kyrvalkyr (Dawn Moore) Tue, 15 May 2012 12:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[WoW Meets League of Legends: Transmogrify your hunter into an AD carry]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/03/wow-meets-league-of-legends-transmogrify-your-hunter-into-an-ad/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/03/wow-meets-league-of-legends-transmogrify-your-hunter-into-an-ad/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/03/wow-meets-league-of-legends-transmogrify-your-hunter-into-an-ad/#comments Image As a raider, I've come to hate the MOBA genre over time. My guild was raiding Icecrown Citadel when Heroes of Newerth first came out, and within a few weeks, I quickly noticed the effect it had. Being in a progression guild, my guildmates were usually patient, focused, and committed when putting in the long hours needed to secure not just server firsts but the highest possible world rankings we could.

After HoN came out, however, it all changed. Core members of the raid were frequently dodging raid nights, and a few times the raid leader even called the night early when progression on a boss fight wasn't up to his satisfaction. The reason? He and half the guild were more interested in playing HoN than raiding.

In the past six months, I've noticed the same thing happening again with League of Legends -- only it's a hundred times worse, because it seems like everyone and their mother is playing this game. As such, I have developed a potential solution to dodgy guildmates. Using transmogrification, your guildies can now transform themselves into two of the most popular League of Legends characters, Graves and Ashe. Who knows? In doing so, maybe they'll actually work on last hitting the damned boss for a change.

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]]> ashegraveshunter-transmoghunter-transmogrificationleague-of-legendslolmail-transmogtransmogtransmog-huntertransmog-mailtransmogrificationtransmogrification-huntertransmogrification-mail (Dawn Moore) Thu, 03 May 2012 14:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Spiritual Guidance: Shadowfiends retire, more priest talent news from Mists beta]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/30/spiritual-guidance-shadowfiends-retire-more-priest-talent-news/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/30/spiritual-guidance-shadowfiends-retire-more-priest-talent-news/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/30/spiritual-guidance-shadowfiends-retire-more-priest-talent-news/#comments Image Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers the healing side of things for discipline and holy priests. She also writes for LearnToRaid.com and produces the Circle of Healing Podcast.

Do you want to know the greatest and most amazing new thing priests are getting in Mists of Pandaria? It's a squid. Well, it could be an octopus, but I think it's a squid. It's called a Mindbender, and it's our new level 45 talent. The Mindbender is a flying, shadowy squid that serves as an improved version of (read: replacement for) our old pal, Shadowfiend. Our new squid friend does double the damage of Shadowfiend and thus returns twice as much mana. I can only assume the reason he can do this is because he latches onto the heads of our enemies and sucks out their brains, sort of like a Mind Flayer, the squid-faced monsters from Dungeons and Dragons with telekinetic powers. Mindbender, Mind Flayer ... That's right, Blizzard, I'm on to you.

Anyway, I imagine Squiddy will become the prime choice for healing priests in MoP because 1.) mana is mana, and 2.) the other level 45 talents are a bit lackluster. That will unfortunately mean leaving Shadowfiend at home, which is awfully sad, but I've painted up a scenario in my head where Shadowfiend tells me, "Look, Dawn, we've been raiding together for a few years now, and it's about time that I caught up on all the prime time television I've missed. There's Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and I've still only seen one episode of Game of Thrones. I need a break."

"OK, Shadowfiend," I say to it, "you can stay home this expansion."

"Thanks, dollface," it responds with Don Draper-esque charm and winks an eye at me I never knew it had.

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]]> angelic-bulwarkangelic-featherarchangelatonementborrowed-timechakrachakra-chastisederevkadesperate-prayerdisc-priest-spiritual-guidancediscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancedon-draperdungeons-and-dragonsevangelismfeathers-from-heavenfeaturedglyph-of-holy-novaglyph-of-levitategreater-healguide-to-priestshealholy-novaholy-priest-spiritual-guidanceHymn-of-Hopelevitatemad-menmana-regenmana-regen-priestmatticusmind-bendermind-flayermindbenderpath-of-the-devoutpriest-guidepriest-infopriest-talentsraptureshadowfiendspectral-guisespirit-shelltales-of-a-priestvoid-shiftweakened soulweakened-soulWeakenedSoulWorld-of-Matticuswow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priests (Dawn Moore) Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Transmog Inspirations: WoW meets Nintendo, part 2]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/19/transmog-inspirations-wow-meets-nintendo-part-2/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/19/transmog-inspirations-wow-meets-nintendo-part-2/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/19/transmog-inspirations-wow-meets-nintendo-part-2/#comments Image I give up. I can't for the life of me create a transmog for Princess Peach. I've tried and I've tried, but there just aren't enough pink clothes in the World of Warcraft to piece together a convincing Peach. I'm sorry, Mario, but you're going to have to settle for some other princess. Princess Poobah? Princess Theradras? Princess ... I can't think of any more. Someone call Anne!

Anyway, this week I decided to put together a few more transmogs based on Nintendo characters. A lot of readers were asking for more, so I made one for Princess Zelda, Toad, and Roy (you know, from Fire Emblem and Super Smash Bros. -- everyone loves Roy!).

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]]> fire-emblemlegend-of-zeldalinkmarionintendoprincess-peachprincess-toadstoolprincess-zeldaroy-fire-emblemsamus-aransuper-mariosuper-mario-brossuper-smash-brossuper-smash-bros-64super-smash-brotherstoadtoad-mariotransmogtransmog-guidetransmogrificationtransmogrification-guidezelda (Dawn Moore) Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Spiritual Guidance: New priest talents in the Mists of Pandaria beta]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/17/spiritual-guidance-new-priest-talents-in-the-mists-of-pandaria/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/17/spiritual-guidance-new-priest-talents-in-the-mists-of-pandaria/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/17/spiritual-guidance-new-priest-talents-in-the-mists-of-pandaria/#comments Image Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers the healing side of things for discipline and holy priests. She also writes for LearnToRaid.com and produces the Circle of Healing Podcast.

Let's get the bad news out of the way first: We've already lost Path of the Devout on beta. The good news is that in its place, we now have Feathers From Heaven, a talent that allows priests to lay out a little track of speed-boosting feathers. Think of them as those little speed arrows in Mario Kart, only they're feathers, and you can put them wherever you please.

The individual feathers have no expiration that I can tell, so you can lay them out in advance on one end of the room for special tactics in your raid encounters or PvP, if it suits your fancy. The ability has no mana cost at the moment. Instead, it is limited by charges: one feather per charge, and you can have three charges at a time. You can place one feather right after the other, but it takes 10 seconds to restore one charge. This allows you to spam three of them on the ground in succession if you like (something you can't do with Body and Soul) or spread them out gradually ahead of you in your path. They can be used by any friendly target, not just party members, so be mindful of people's stealing them if you're using them while leveling to snatch up quest items. Oh yeah, and the feathers can be used on top of water with Levitate.

So, you're excited about Mists of Pandaria now, right?

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]]> cascadedisc-priest-spiritual-guidancediscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancedivine-stardruid-symbiosisfeathers-from-heavenfeaturedglyph-of-penanceguide-to-priestshaloholy-paladinsholy-priest-spiritual-guidancemists-of-pandariamists-of-pandaria-betapaladins-suckpath-of-the-devoutpriest-betapriest-guidepriest-infopriest-moppriest-rapturepriest-talentsrapturesymbiosiswow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priests (Dawn Moore) Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Guide to transmogrification resources]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/05/guide-to-transmogrification-resources/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/05/guide-to-transmogrification-resources/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/05/guide-to-transmogrification-resources/#comments Image You just spent 13,000 gold on a pair of purple boots. No, not purple quality -- purple as in the color. What? It matched the subtle detailing on your tier 2 shoulders perfectly. OK, maybe not perfectly, but it's close enough. Wait, maybe you can find something closer? Better go look again.

We get it. You're addicted to transmogrification. Your void storage is packed full of gear that you haven't worn since level 9, and your friends are planning to stage an intervention. You want more -- no, you need more. Fortunately, we're here to help. Like a best friend who brings you a batch of her famous marshmallow chocolate chunk cookies two days after you start a diet, we've compiled a list of transmogrification resources you may find useful in getting your next fix -- I mean, outfit.

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]]> moggingTransmissiontransmogtransmog-guidetransmogrificationtransmogrification-blogstransmogrification-guidetransmogrify-guide (Dawn Moore) Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Spiritual Guidance: First impressions of the Mists of Pandaria beta from a healing priest]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/02/spiritual-guidance-first-impressions-of-the-mists-of-pandaria-b/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/02/spiritual-guidance-first-impressions-of-the-mists-of-pandaria-b/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/02/spiritual-guidance-first-impressions-of-the-mists-of-pandaria-b/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers the healing side of things for discipline and holy priests. She also writes for LearnToRaid.com and produces the Circle of Healing Podcast.

This past week, I finally got access to the Mists of Pandaria beta, which means I've had lots of shiny new stuff to play with recently. As a healing priest, I gave a thorough look at both holy and discipline priests and found a lot of things I felt I should report back.

First, let's start with Chakra. Before I even finished downloading the beta client, I heard complaints from other priests saying that Chakra states had turned into stances (think warrior stances). The concept of this intrigued me, but when I finally got around to toying around with it, I didn't really know why anyone would think too much of it. The stances simplify Chakra, so rather than having to press two buttons to change to Chakra: Sanctuary, all you have to do is hit one. If you want to switch again, there is a 30-second cooldown before you can swap.

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]]> atonementchakrachatisedisc-priest-spiritual-guidancediscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancedivine-touchevangelismfeaturedguide-to-priestsholy fireholy-fireholy-priest-spiritual-guidanceholy-word-chastiseHolyFiremists-of-pandariaMoparpenancepower-infusionpriest-glyphspriest-guidepriest-infopriest-renewpriest-talentsrapid-renewalrenewspirit-shellwow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priests (Dawn Moore) Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[How to go tribal with transmogrification]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/22/how-to-go-tribal-with-transmogrification/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/22/how-to-go-tribal-with-transmogrification/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/22/how-to-go-tribal-with-transmogrification/#comments Do you like hugging trees? Did you want to see more of D.E.H.T.A. in Wrath of the Lich King? If you answered yes to either of those questions, this week's transmogrification guide is for you. This week, we're going to be exploring that super-chic tribal look the tauren of Azeroth love so much. So if you happen to be a druid who wants to look more the part (or just want to be a rogue who inflicts cognitive dissonance), keep reading.

First off, you should know that at the end of the day, there's a lot of flexibility to this outfit. Anything with wood, leaves, feathers, animal hide, fur, or antlers has the potential to be swapped in. Just be mindful of how you incorporate color. When using earthy-looking armor models, you want to try and keep the earth tones in the same color family. So for example, if your chestpiece is a mustard-colored brown, you may want to make sure most of your browns have a similar hue. When it comes to accents and contrasting color, try to make all of those little details match. So if you get a red headband, trying using a red belt or weapon to tie it all together.

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]]> d.e.t.a.detadruiddruid-transmogdruid-transmogrificationpetaroguerogue-transmogrogue-transmogrificationtransmogtransmogrificationtransmogrification-guidetransmogrification-setstransmogrifytribaltribal-transmogtribal-transmogrification (Dawn Moore) Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Spiritual Guidance: Monk healing vs. priest healing in Mists of Pandaria]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/21/spiritual-guidance-monk-healing-vs-priest-healing-in-mists-of/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/21/spiritual-guidance-monk-healing-vs-priest-healing-in-mists-of/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/21/spiritual-guidance-monk-healing-vs-priest-healing-in-mists-of/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers the healing side of things for discipline and holy priests. She also writes for LearnToRaid.com and produces the Circle of Healing Podcast.

Well, I don't know about you, but I'm starting to feel pretty pumped up after Monday's release of the information from Blizzard's Mists of Pandaria press event. Some of the new zones are very striking, the pandaren ladies are absolutely adorable, and monks get an ability called Shuffle, which means we'll have an expansion full of Party Rock Anthem jokes to look forward to. Priests didn't see anything new on Monday, but with all the information released about mistweavers and monk healing in general, I thought I might make some comparisons to get a better idea about what priest healing is going to look like in MoP.

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]]> Atonementcherry-mana-teadisc-priest-spiritual-guidancedisc-priestsdiscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancedivine-hymnfeaturedguide-to-priestsholy-novaholy-priest-spiritual-guidanceholy-priestshymn-of-hopejade-serpent-statueJoystiqlightwellmeditation-monkmist-of-pandaria-priestsmists-of-pandariamists-of-pandaria-talentsmistweavermistweaver-monkmonk-cooldownsmonk-healingmonk-meditationpower-word-barrierprayer-of-healingpriest-guidepriest-healingpriest-infopriest-talentssmitesmite-healingspinning-crane-kickwow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priests (Dawn Moore) Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Spiritual Guidance: Prayer of Healing and secondary stats for Mists of Pandaria healers]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/12/spiritual-guidance-prayer-of-healing-and-secondary-stats-for-mi/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/12/spiritual-guidance-prayer-of-healing-and-secondary-stats-for-mi/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/12/spiritual-guidance-prayer-of-healing-and-secondary-stats-for-mi/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers the healing side of things for discipline and holy priests. She also writes for LearnToRaid.com and produces the Circle of Healing Podcast.

I trust you all remember that three weeks ago, Blizzard developers stated that Prayer of Healing would no longer be available to priests of every spec. The spell was to become an ability exclusive to the holy tree, and in order to provide the discipline tree with adequate AoE healing, the developers were working on redesigning Holy Nova.

Well, as of earlier this week, it looks like discipline will be keeping Prayer of Healing in Mists of Pandaria after all. The developers made this statement on Tuesday.

Kaivax -- Talent update: Priests
Prayer of Healing can be used by Holy and Discipline once again. We realized that the goal of making Holy Nova an effective AE healing tool was problematic. It meant that we would have to change Holy Nova so thoroughly, that it was becoming a second Prayer of Healing. Remember: we aren't even in beta yet, and we want to retain as much opportunity as possible to respond to player feedback throughout the rest of this process. Things will change for priests, and every other class, over the coming weeks.

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]]> binding-healdisc-priest-spiritual-guidancediscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancefeaturedguide-to-priestsholy-novaholy-priest-spiritual-guidancemists-of-pandariamop-priestprayer-of-healingpriest-guidepriest-infopriest-statspriest-talentsstats-priestwow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priests (Dawn Moore) Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Does WoW need more minigames?]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/09/does-wow-need-more-minigames/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/09/does-wow-need-more-minigames/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/09/does-wow-need-more-minigames/#comments When I started playing WoW in 2006, I knew next to nothing about it. I had bought a copy to play with my boyfriend but did so while he was out of the country; it was my intent to surprise him with it when he got back. The unfortunate result of this was that I didn't really know what to do on my own and spent most of the time being eaten by murlocs.

Back then, the multiplayer aspect of WoW wasn't apparent to me. I had only ever joined groups to complete a few quests and didn't know what dungeons, raids, or Battlegrounds were. Because of this, I often remember thinking WoW wasn't a very good game because it was missing all sorts of basic elements that other games had. For example, I remember jumping in a river and thinking "Awesome, this will be a quick way to get to the southern side of the zone," only to realize a moment later there was no water current in WoW like there is in Legend of Zelda. "This is so lame," I thought.

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]]> console-gamesfarmvilleharvest-moonlegend-of-zeldamini-gamesminigamesnintendoplants-vs-zombiesplatformingsingle-player-games (Dawn Moore) Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[WoW Meets Nintendo: Make your group stand out with transmogrification]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/08/wow-meets-nintendo-make-your-group-stand-out-with-transmogrific/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/08/wow-meets-nintendo-make-your-group-stand-out-with-transmogrific/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/08/wow-meets-nintendo-make-your-group-stand-out-with-transmogrific/#comments Back when I used to cosplay, I absolutely loved cosplaying in a group. Not only does it ensure you'll always have a friend to help you get through doors, but cosplay ensembles are guaranteed showstoppers. There's just something about strength in numbers that gets the one-up over even the most expertly crafted costume.

So the other day I had this thought: Why not transmog as a group? With your guild or maybe just a few friends, you could pick out a transmogrification theme and then do some activities together -- maybe hit up the Raid Finder and carry the group with your sheer awesomeness. As for a theme, it could be anything that suits your fancy. Maybe a novel series, or a historical era. Hmm ... Maybe your favorite video game characters?

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]]> legend-of-zeldalinkmarionintendosamussamus-aransuper-mariosuper-mario-brossuper-metroidtransmogtransmog-guidetransmogrificationtransmogrification-guidezelda (Dawn Moore) Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Spiritual Guidance: How to increase your HPS as a holy priest]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/05/spiritual-guidance-how-to-increase-your-hps-as-a-holy-priest/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/05/spiritual-guidance-how-to-increase-your-hps-as-a-holy-priest/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/05/spiritual-guidance-how-to-increase-your-hps-as-a-holy-priest/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers the healing side of things for discipline and holy priests. She also writes for LearnToRaid.com and produces the Circle of Healing Podcast.

Remember last month when I talked about increasing your HPS as a discipline priest through an aggressive style of healing? Well, this week I'm going to do it again for holy priests. So if you've be looking to climb up the healing meters and make other healers hate you, stick around.

The philosophy behind increasing your output as a holy priest is quite different than that of a disc priest. It's still very greedy but it's not nearly as competitive, since it doesn't require you to directly snipe heals from other healers. Instead, you'll be searching for every half second where you can utilize your most powerful spells and do so before other healers have the chance to do something similar. Just like with disc priests, you'll be milking your mana bar for all it's worth and spamming your regenerative cooldowns whenever you can.

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]]> disc-hpsdisc-priest-spiritual-guidancediscipline-healingdiscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancefeaturedguide-to-priestshealing-metersholy-healingholy-hpsholy-priestholy-priest-spiritual-guidancehpspower-word-shieldpriest-guidepriest-healingpriest-hpspriest-infopriest-talentsrecountwow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priests (Dawn Moore) Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Spiritual Guidance: Mists of Pandaria and the existential crisis of the healing priest]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/27/spiritual-guidance-mists-of-pandaria-and-the-existential-crisis/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/27/spiritual-guidance-mists-of-pandaria-and-the-existential-crisis/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/27/spiritual-guidance-mists-of-pandaria-and-the-existential-crisis/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers the healing side of things for discipline and holy priests. She also writes for LearnToRaid.com and produces the Circle of Healing Podcast.

At BlizzCon 2011, I sat down in front of the Mists of Pandaria demo and took a long look at the character creation screen before me. At the time, I was there to try out the newly announced monk class, but I couldn't help thinking that there wasn't much point in my doing so. I stared at the silver staff on that intimately familiar icon and wondered if maybe I should just roll a pandaren priest to preview the new casting animations. I knew then that I'd never put any serious time into playing a monk, even as an alt. Why? Because I'm totally playing a priest in Mists of Pandaria.

The reason I recall this story now is because of how dramatically the priest class may change in MoP. Everything is under development, but already things are looking radically different as the foundation (or at least the infrastructure) of our class is torn out and redone. We looked at some of these changes last week, and this week, I thought it would be good to wrap up the loose ends of the discussion.

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]]> disc-priest-spiritual-guidancediscipline-priest-spiritual-guidanceguide-to-priestsholy-priest-spiritual-guidancemists-of-pandariamop-priestpriest-guidepriest-infopriest-talentswow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priests (Dawn Moore) Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[How to assemble coordinating gear sets for your hunter or shaman]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/23/how-to-assemble-coordinating-gear-sets-for-your-hunter-or-shaman/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/23/how-to-assemble-coordinating-gear-sets-for-your-hunter-or-shaman/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/23/how-to-assemble-coordinating-gear-sets-for-your-hunter-or-shaman/#comments In fashion, coordinates are matching pieces of clothing that are meant to be worn together. Think of a matching suit jacket and pants, or a prom dress and shawl sold together in the same color. Typically, coordinates are for people who work in offices and need to look professional or people who can't dress themselves.

In WoW, there are coordinates too, and they can be used strategically to pull together seemingly unrelated pieces of gear into different looks. This week, I'll be showing you three different looks for your mail-wearing hunter or shaman, all oriented around three easy-to-obtain mail coordinates.

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]]> blood-elfdraeneiengineerengineeringhunter-transmoghunter-transmogrificationnight-elfshaman-transmogshaman-transmogrificationtransmogtransmogrification (Dawn Moore) Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Spiritual Guidance: Priests, shields and AoE healing in Mists of Pandaria]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/20/spiritual-guidance-priests-shields-and-aoe-healing-in-mists-of/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/20/spiritual-guidance-priests-shields-and-aoe-healing-in-mists-of/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/20/spiritual-guidance-priests-shields-and-aoe-healing-in-mists-of/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers the healing side of things for discipline and holy priests. She also writes for LearnToRaid.com and produces the Circle of Healing Podcast.

If you recall, last November when Blizzard released its official talent calculators for Mists of Pandaria, I declined to make a full comment. At the time, the calculators seemed incomplete, with various abilities absent from the level-by-level breakdown for each spec. Without a comment from the blues on the matter, I didn't want to speculate on all of it until I felt I was looking at something more concrete.

Well, last week it seems we finally got something more concrete. The calculators don't seem that much different, mind you, but a few comments from the developers answer a lot of questions priests might have had about the direction of the class' design. Let's take a look.

Question: Why didn't the priest tree change?
Answer: We are still in development. It is a challenge, when giving players a sneak peak at work in progress, to decide when to release what we have versus waiting to accumulate even more changes.

Question: Do Discipline priests have Prayer of Healing or not?

Answer: Our current design direction is this: Holy does AE healing with Prayer of Healing, and Discipline heals with (a much more powerful than today) Holy Nova. Divine Aegis would work with Holy Nova under this model. However, please see the question above. The priest tree is still in heavy development.

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]]> class-helpdisc-priest-spiritual-guidancediscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancefeaturedguideguide-to-priestsholy-priest-spiritual-guidancepreist-infopriest-guidepriest-talentstalenttalentsworld-of-warcraft-class-guideworld-of-warcraft-guidewow-class-guidewow-class-helpwow-guidewow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestswow-talent-guide (Dawn Moore) Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[A priest's guide to class romance]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/14/spiritual-guidance-a-priests-guide-to-class-romance/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/14/spiritual-guidance-a-priests-guide-to-class-romance/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/14/spiritual-guidance-a-priests-guide-to-class-romance/#comments It's a troubling yet underpublicized fact that four out of five shadow priests respecced shadow for the first time after experiencing a romantic break-up. Recent studies show that priests are 63% more likely to respec shadow within 72 hours of a break-up, while a separate poll found that 78% of healing priests had seriously considered respeccing to shadow after having an argument with their spouse or significant other. To the tenderhearted healing priest, shadow probably seems like a quick way to steel yourself and mend a broken heart; unfortunately, too few priests realize the two points they're putting into Masochism 'til they're staring down into an empty bottle of Volcanic Potion and wishing they could do the same DPS as a warlock.

The simple way to avoid all these drastic courses of action is, of course, to skip getting your heart broken in the first place. Easier said than done, you think? Perhaps, but knowing the battlefield of love will certainly help you avoid the more obvious pitfalls. Want to know what your best match is? What about your worst? This week, I've got the answers in a special guide to the classes.

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]]> class-guideclass-helpdeath-knightdisc-priest-spiritual-guidancediscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancedruidEntertainmentfeaturedguideguide-to-priestsholy-priest-spiritual-guidancehunterJoystiqlove-is-in-the-airmagepaladinpreist-infopriestpriest-guidepriest-talentsrogueshamantalenttalentsvalentines dayvalentines-dayValentinesDaywarlockwarriorWarriorsworld-of-warcraft-class-guideworld-of-warcraft-guidewow-class-guidewow-class-helpwow-guidewow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestswow-romancewow-talent-guide (Dawn Moore) Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[How to transmogrify your clothie into High Inquisitor Whitemane]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/09/how-to-transmogrify-your-clothie-into-high-inquisitor-whitemane/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/09/how-to-transmogrify-your-clothie-into-high-inquisitor-whitemane/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/09/how-to-transmogrify-your-clothie-into-high-inquisitor-whitemane/#comments I don't like to assume that I know much in this world, but when it comes to World of Warcraft there is one thing that I am truly certain of: People really like High Inquisitor Whitemane.

I guess it's hard for anyone to miss though. Since vanilla WoW, I've been reading comments about the High Inquisitor in almost every cathedral PUG I've ever run. "This is my favorite boss in the game," or "I love this fight," they say. When I flip through fan art galleries, it feels like I can't go through 10 pictures without one of them being of her. Plus, have you ever been to a BlizzCon? I've attended three, and every time, I've seen more than a few girls cosplaying as her.

And who knows why? Maybe it's because we all love Scarlet Monastery. Maybe it's the Sephiroth-effect (white hair + villain = fans). Whatever it is, this relatively minor character commands a huge fan base among players. Because of that, I'm going to show you how to make your character look like her with transmogrification.

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]]> cathedralclothcloth-transmogrificationhigh-inquisitorhigh-inquisitor-whitemanemage-transmogrificationpriest-transmogrificationscarlet-monasterysmtransmogtransmogrificationtransmogrification-guidewarlock-transmogrificationWhitemane (Dawn Moore) Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Spiritual Guidance: How to increase your HPS as a discipline priest]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/06/spiritual-guidance-how-to-increase-your-hps-as-a-discipline-pri/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/06/spiritual-guidance-how-to-increase-your-hps-as-a-discipline-pri/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/06/spiritual-guidance-how-to-increase-your-hps-as-a-discipline-pri/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers the healing side of things for discipline and holy priests. She also writes for LearnToRaid.com and produces the Circle of Healing Podcast.

I received an email three weeks back from a discipline priest who told me she thought her performance on the healing meters was too low. Though there wasn't any pressure on her from her guild to change what she was doing, she was bothered that her peers often outhealed her by a significant amount -- even another discipline priest with worse gear and a laggy computer. She told me she'd first noticed it at the start of Cataclysm, despite the fact that her performance on meters should have gone up with the change to combat logs (which allowed absorption from Power Word: Shield and Divine Aegis to register on meters). She kept up with her assignments regardless, and none of her targets ever died, but something just didn't seem right to her.

The priest linked me her armory but said that she didn't think it was anything to do with her gear choices, which I agreed with upon my own inspection. She also described what she was casting, none of which seemed horribly egregious to me. What could be wrong?

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]]> class-helpdisc-healingdisc-hpsdisc-priestdisc-priest-spiritual-guidancediscipline-healingdiscipline-hpsdiscipline-priestdiscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancedisco-priestdivine-aegisfeaturedguideguide-to-priestshealing-metershpspower-word-shieldpreist-infopriest-guidepriest-healingpriest-hpspriest-talentsrecounttalenttalentsworld-of-warcraft-class-guideworld-of-warcraft-guidewow-class-guidewow-class-helpwow-guidewow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestswow-talent-guide (Dawn Moore) Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Mog your way to a roguish look]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/26/mog-your-way-to-a-roguish-look/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/26/mog-your-way-to-a-roguish-look/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/26/mog-your-way-to-a-roguish-look/#comments I used to play a lot of Dungeons & Dragons in college, back when v.3.5 was all the rage. At the time, a series of companion books was being released with titles like Complete Adventurer or Complete Divine; these books listed additional abilities and classes that players could use to expand upon the core classes in the original D&D rule books. Warlocks, for example, were added in Complete Arcane as a spin-off from the mage core class. Instead of using classic D&D mage spells like Magic Missile, they used invocations, which the book provided.

What I liked most about these books is that they made you think outside the box about your class. A warrior wasn't just a guy with a sword and a lot of armor proficiency; he could be a swashbuckler of the high seas or a graceful, dancing dervish. Both classes were warriors, but they fought in distinctively different ways.

So when it comes to WoW and transmogrification, I think a lot about the possible archetypes certain classes could have and try to explore those in different outfits. Leather wearers, for example, don't always have to look like members of the Defias Brotherhood or the audience at a Grateful Dead concert. They could also be mud-splattered bandits, solitary rangers from the Hinterlands, or sneaky Warsong scouts. Oddly enough, today's outfit might just work for all three.

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]]> banditdddrugsdruid-transmogrificationDungeons-and-Dragonsrangerrogue-transmogrogue-transmogrificationthieftransmogtransmogrificationtransmogrification-guidewow-ranger (Dawn Moore) Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[How to look like a priest with transmogrification (even if you're actually a mage)]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/12/how-to-look-like-a-priest-with-transmogrification/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/12/how-to-look-like-a-priest-with-transmogrification/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/12/how-to-look-like-a-priest-with-transmogrification/#comments In high fantasy, the archetype of the priest is a patient, powerful figure whose strength comes from his vigilance and his faith. This iconic archetype exists in World of Warcraft as well, manifesting in the form of inspiring heroes like Tyrande Whisperwind or Prophet Velen. Want to follow in their footsteps? Well, you'll have to roll a priest ... At least, that's what you had to do prior to patch 4.3. Now, thanks to transmogrification, all cloth wearers can finally "take the cloth."

This week, I'll be showing you how to create the look of a traveling, battle-ready priest. With the draped hood and cloth foot wraps, I want to call on the idea of a medieval monk or friar sent to a far-off land on a divine errand. The set is wearable by all cloth wearers, so even mages and warlocks can get in touch with their holy side. Most of the key pieces come from a recolored version of the Absolution Regalia (priest tier 6), with a few twists to make the outfit look less crisp and uniform.

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]]> absolutionabsolution-regaliaamice-of-brilliant-lightcowl-of-benevolencefashiongloves-of-unyielding-faithgossamer-robepriestsanguine-sandalssanguine-starSilvermoon-Cityt6tier-6transmogtransmogrificationtransmogrification-clothtransmogrification-guidtransmogrification-limitationstransmogrification-suggestionstransmogrification-wowtransmogrificationclothunyielding-girdle (Dawn Moore) Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Spiritual Guidance: Top healing trinkets for priests]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/10/spiritual-guidance-top-healing-trinkets-for-priests/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/10/spiritual-guidance-top-healing-trinkets-for-priests/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/10/spiritual-guidance-top-healing-trinkets-for-priests/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers the healing side of things for discipline and holy priests. She also writes for LearnToRaid.com and produces the Circle of Healing Podcast.

There were five potential healer trinkets added in patch 4.3, some of which have their pluses and their minuses. If you're a holy or a disc priest and you're not quite sure what trinket you should be taking this tier, let me help you narrow it down. I'll give you a hint, though -- they're the trinkets that everyone else will try to kill you for. Watch your back!
  • Windward Heart As far as healing throughput goes, this is currently the best trinket in the game. Many healers are reporting its doing up to 5% of their healing in a fight, and since the heal is a smart heal that will target the most injured member of your party, you know it's never going to overheal anyone. The internal cooldown is 20 seconds, meaning you'll see the proc going off constantly as long as you keep healing. There is some debate on whether holy or disc will benefit from this trinket more, since holy priests are typically healing more targets and thus more likely to get a critical heal, while disc priests are known to have more crit because of talents like Renewed Hope. First off, it doesn't really matter who benefits from the trinket more, because it's best in slot for both specs. Second, who it benefits more has to do with your raid role, not your spec. It's true that a holy priest is more than likely going to be acting as a raid healer, but disc priests will occasionally fill that role too, just like holy priests may occasionally tank heal. Because raid roles change from fight to fight, I would encourage you to not be that jerk who tries to make a case for it by waving his spec around.

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]]> class-helpdisc-priest-spiritual-guidancediscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancedragon-souldragon-soul-trinketsdragonsoulfeaturedguideguide-to-priestshealer-trinketsheart-of-unlivingholy-priest-spiritual-guidancepreist-infopriest-discipline-spiritual-guidancepriest-guidepriest-holy-spiritual-guidancepriest-talentspriest-trinketstalenttalentstrinkettrinket-healertrinket-priesttrinketswindward-heartworld-of-warcraft-class-guideworld-of-warcraft-guidewow-class-guidewow-class-helpwow-guidewow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestswow-talent-guide (Dawn Moore) Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[StarCraft vs. Warcraft: What is the WoW community missing?]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/10/starcraft-vs-warcraft-what-is-the-wow-community-missing/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/10/starcraft-vs-warcraft-what-is-the-wow-community-missing/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/10/starcraft-vs-warcraft-what-is-the-wow-community-missing/#comments For the past year or so, I've been living a double life. To some, I am a skilled and tenacious night elf priestess, adventuring through Azeroth at the charge of the Holy Light, healing the injured and saving the incompetent. To others, however, I am but a lowly brood mother, commanding a swarming, parasitic army with occasional success against my enemies across the Koprulu sector. Don't follow me? Basically, I've just been playing a lot of StarCraft 2 whenever I'm not raiding.

Still, being heavily invested in WoW and StarCraft has really felt like living two lives at times, especially when you consider how dramatically different they both are. And I'm not talking about the gameplay; obviously one would expect an MMORPG and an RTS to be incomparable. What I mean is that that the culture and community that surrounds these two games are distinctively different, despite the fact that the games share some of their playerbase with one another. You'd think that one game community would be pretty similar to the next, but they're not.

The whole thing has left me with a lot of questions to turn over in my mind. Is it possible that the WoW and StarCraft communities could learn from the other? Seven years in, is it even possible for the WoW community to change in any significant way at this point? And if so, is there something missing in the WoW community? To explore the idea further, I started making a list of all the things I thought the StarCraft community had that the WoW community was lacking.

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]]> arenablizzcon-2011blood-legionlan-tournamentlandsoullive-raidmlgredditscsc-redditsc2sc2-redditstarcraftstarcraft+2starcraft-2starcraft2team-liquidtlvodkavodka-guildwow-arenawow-pvpwow-reddit (Dawn Moore) Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Breakfast Topic: What WoW title would you choose in real life?]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/10/breakfast-topic-what-wow-title-would-you-choose-in-real-life/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/10/breakfast-topic-what-wow-title-would-you-choose-in-real-life/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/10/breakfast-topic-what-wow-title-would-you-choose-in-real-life/#comments The other day, I tried to come up with a title for Kelly Aarons. It was one of those fleeting moments where you have the opportunity to display your wit, and in doing so, show everyone that you're actually a funny, lighthearted, and interesting human being (as opposed to a boring, soulless low-life ... sigh). In those racing seconds, I grasped desperately at all the WoW titles floating aimlessly in my head. How about Kelly the Noble? Kelly the Light of Dawn, perhaps? No, that might seem self-absorbed or creepy. Kelly the Exalted? Salty Kelly?

I was about to type out Merrymaker Kelly when I realized my window of time had expired and anything after that would just make me seem like some sort of desperate try-hard. "You'll never be witty, Dawn. Give it up already." Sighing internally, I held down the delete key and kept quiet.

It made me wonder, though, if I were going to give myself my own title, what would it be? In game, I've only displayed a few titles on my characters over the years (Rival, Sergeant, Chef, and the Light of Dawn), but I don't think any of those titles suit me personally. Dawn the Patient seems fitting. Maybe Dawn the Explorer? I think I might have explored outside my house at some point -- that works.

What about you?

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]]> chef-titlefacebookfeedgame-discussiongamer-discussionkelly-aaronspvp-titlesrival-titlesalty-titlesergeant-titlethe-exaltedthe-light-of-dawnthe-noblethe-patienttitleworld-of-warcraft-discussionworld-of-warcraft-topicswow-discussionwow-hot-topicswow-issueswow-titlewow-titleswow-topics (Dawn Moore) Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Spiritual Guidance: Priest healing the Madness of Deathwing and heroic Dragon Soul]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/02/priest-healing-the-madness-of-deathwing-and/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/02/priest-healing-the-madness-of-deathwing-and/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/02/priest-healing-the-madness-of-deathwing-and/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers the healing side of things for discipline and holy priests. She also writes for LearnToRaid.com and produces the Circle of Healing Podcast.

This is it -- the last priest healing boss guide of the expansion! (After this, it's pandas or bust, baby!) Are you excited? You should be, because the last boss fight of Cataclysm is a loot piñata that's actually easier than the second to last fight a lot of fun! Hopefully, you all remember the drill from last week ... You want to familiarize yourself with the mechanics of this fight before progressing further into this guide. LearnToRaid.com has a nice video guide for Madness of Deathwing, and Icy Veins has an excellent written guide.

Priests of either spec should know that cooldown management is the key to succeeding in this encounter as a priest. The encounter as a whole is not particularly difficult, but using your regen cooldowns at the right time will pave the way for you to hold onto just enough mana from start to finish. I recommend using your first Shadowfiend after the Mutated Corruption dies on the first platform, and your first Hymn of Hope just after jumping over to the second platform. Your second Shadowfiend should be used as soon as it becomes available, which will allow you to pair your third Shadowfiend and second Hymn of Hope together (just like we used to always do it in Wrath -- cast Shadowfiend, then immediately follow it up with Hymn of Hope). From there, use everything on cooldown, and you should be sitting pretty for mana the whole fight.

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]]> class-helpdeathsdeathwingdisc-priest-spiritual-guidancediscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancedragon-souldragonsoulfeaturedguideguide-to-priestsheroic-dragon-soulholy-priest-spiritual-guidancemadness-deathwingmadness-of-deathwingpriest-discipline-spiritual-guidancepriest-guidepriest-holy-spiritual-guidancepriest-talentstalenttalentsworld-of-warcraft-class-guideworld-of-warcraft-guidewow-class-guidewow-class-helpwow-guidewow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestswow-talent-guide (Dawn Moore) Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[How to transmogrify your mail wearer into a glimmering gladiator]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/29/how-to-transmogrify-your-mail-wearer-into-a-glimmering-gladiator/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/29/how-to-transmogrify-your-mail-wearer-into-a-glimmering-gladiator/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/29/how-to-transmogrify-your-mail-wearer-into-a-glimmering-gladiator/#comments Upgrading your armor proficiency in WoW is a pretty forgettable aspect of the game, but to the transmogrification enthusiast, it creates some potentially interesting looks for level-capped players who wear mail. Mail worn before level 40 is intended to be worn by warriors and paladins and thus has a very different aesthetic than the green and gray mail that hunters and shaman are accustomed to.

The look above is an all-mail set created with hunters and shaman in mind, especially those who are sick of looking like earthy animal lovers all the time. By combining a few utilitarian-looking accessories with several pieces from an extravagant level 30 armor set known as Glimmering Mail, we're able to create the look of a flashy celebrity gladiator who is ready to win the crowd once more.

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]]> fashiongladiatorglimmering-mailhow+do+you+transmogrify+your+armor+in+wowhowdoyoutransmogrifyyourarmorinwowpants+transmogrification+mailpantstransmogrificationmailtransmogtransmogrificationtransmogrification+mailtransmogrification+wowtransmogrification-guidetransmogrification-limitationstransmogrification-suggestionstransmogrificationmailtransmogrificationwowtransmogrifiertransmogrifytransmorgrification+gladiatortransmorgrificationgladiatorwow+transmogrificationwowtransmogrification (Dawn Moore) Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Spiritual Guidance: Healing priest strategies for Warmaster Blackhorn and Spine of Deathwing]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/27/healing-priest-strategies-for-blackhorn-spine-of-deathwing/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/27/healing-priest-strategies-for-blackhorn-spine-of-deathwing/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/27/healing-priest-strategies-for-blackhorn-spine-of-deathwing/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers the healing side of things for discipline and holy priests. She also writes for LearnToRaid.com and produces the Circle of Healing Podcast.

Assuming you survived last week without turning into a puddle of priestly sludge or quitting your guild (cough, cough), it's now time to move on to the sixth and seventh encounters in Dragon Soul, Warmaster Blackhorn and Spine of Deathwing. Just like last week, I want to remind you that you'll need to be familiar with the basic mechanics of these encounters to follow along with my priest healing guide. For Warmaster Blackhorn, try checking out LearnToRaid.com for a video guide and Icy Veins for a written guide.

Warmaster Blackhorn is a pretty straightforward fight as far as healing is concerned. The key is to keep your eyes open to what is going on instead of staring intently at your raid frame the whole time. Much of the healing required will be in response to effects you'll see on the ground first, so if you're good at clicking players instead of health bars, you'll be way ahead of the game.

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]]> blackhornclass-helpdeathwingdiscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancefeaturedguideguide-to-priestshealing+priesthealing-deathwinghealingpriestholy-priest-spiritual-guidancehow+to+heal+spine+of+deathwinghowtohealspineofdeathwingpreist-infopriest-discipline-spiritual-guidancepriest-guidepriest-holy-spiritual-guidancepriest-talentsspine+of+deathwing+healing+guidespineofdeathwinghealingguidetalenttalentswarmaster+blackhorn+10m+strategywarmaster-blackhornwarmasterblackhorn10mstrategyworld-of-warcraft-class-guideworld-of-warcraft-guidewow+warmaster+blackhorn+guidewow-class-guidewow-class-helpwow-guidewow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestswow-talent-guidewowwarmasterblackhornguide (Dawn Moore) Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Spiritual Guidance: Priest healing for Dragon Soul's Hagara and Ultraxion]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/20/-priest-healing-for-dragon-souls-hagara-and-ultraxion/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/20/-priest-healing-for-dragon-souls-hagara-and-ultraxion/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/20/-priest-healing-for-dragon-souls-hagara-and-ultraxion/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers the healing side of things for discipline and holy priests. She also writes for LearnToRaid.com and produces the Circle of Healing Podcast.

Picking up where we left off the other week, today's Spiritual Guidance will cover the fourth and fifth bosses in Dragon Soul. The first up is Hagara the Stormbinder. Before we jump right in please make sure you're familiar with the basic mechanics and strategy of the fight; I will be examining the fight specifically from a healing priest's point of view. For Hagara, I recommend getting acquainted with the fight through the video guide at LearnToRaid.com or the written guide at Icy Veins.

Healing priests of either spec should be mindful that Hagara's ice phase is probably going to be where players are at the greatest risk of death. Fortunately, Leap of Faith is the perfect way to intervene, provided you remember a few things. The obvious one first is that you should make sure you're well ahead of the Ice Wave before you use it. It's easy to get caught up in the wave yourself if you try to stop and cast, and the extra second required to orient yourself properly for a life grip could be a second too long if you're not careful. Next, take care to ensure you're not pulling your ally into an equally treacherous spot when you use Leap of Faith. Pulling someone away from the Ice Wave just so they can be hit by an Icicle is cleary counterproductive (although somewhat comical, depending on who you're saving).

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]]> class-helpdiscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancedragon+soul+healingdragonsoulhealingessence+of+dreams+holy+priestessenceofdreamsholypriestfeaturedguideguide-to-priestshagaraholy+priest+ultraxionholy-priest-spiritual-guidanceholypriestultraxionpreist-infopriest+healing+dragonsoulpriest-discipline-spiritual-guidancepriest-guidepriest-holy-spiritual-guidancepriest-talentspriesthealingdragonsoultalenttalentsultraxionultraxion+holy+priestultraxionholypriestworld-of-warcraft-class-guideworld-of-warcraft-guidewow-class-guidewow-class-helpwow-guidewow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestswow-talent-guide (Dawn Moore) Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Spiritual Guidance: Healing priest strategies for Dragon Soul's first 3 bosses]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/06/spiritual-guidance-healing-priest-strategies-for-dragon-souls/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/06/spiritual-guidance-healing-priest-strategies-for-dragon-souls/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/06/spiritual-guidance-healing-priest-strategies-for-dragon-souls/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers the healing side of things for discipline and holy priests. She also writes for LearnToRaid.com and produces the Circle of Healing Podcast.

This week, we'll be looking at how to heal on your priest through Morchok, Warlord Zon'ozz, and Yor'sahj the Unsleeping.

If you haven't read one of my boss healing guides before, let me give you the same ol' disclaimer I always give ... This guide focuses on the specifics details of how to heal as a discipline or holy priest within a given encounter. It assumes you have a basic understanding of the fight, and it will not typically explain mechanics or general strategy. If you are unfamiliar with a fight, please review the links at the beginning of each boss subsection.

I also think it's worth mentioning that these guides will seem a bit excessive to players experiencing these encounters exclusively through the Raid Finder.

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]]> class-helpdisc-priest-spiritual-guidancediscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancedragon+soul+strategiesdragon+soul+strategydragon-souldragonsouldragonsoulstrategiesdragonsoulstrategyfeaturedguideguide-to-priestshealing+dragon+soulhealing-guidehealingdragonsoulholy+priest+dragon+soulholy-priest-spiritual-guidanceholypriestdragonsoulmorchokpreist-infopriest-discipline-spiritual-guidancepriest-guidepriest-holy-spiritual-guidancepriest-raid-guidepriest-talentsraid-guidetalenttalentstier-13tier13warlord+zonozzwarlord-zonozzwarlordzonozzworld-of-warcraft-class-guideworld-of-warcraft-guidewow-class-guidewow-class-helpwow-guidewow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestswow-talent-guideyorsahjyorsahj-the-unsleepingzon-ozzzonozz (Dawn Moore) Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Spiritual Guidance: Healing priests in patch 4.3]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/11/29/priest-healing-in-patch-4-3/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/11/29/priest-healing-in-patch-4-3/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/11/29/priest-healing-in-patch-4-3/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers the healing side of things for discipline and holy priests. She also writes for LearnToRaid.com and produces the Circle of Healing Podcast.

Like a sperm whale (or a bowl of petunias), patch 4.3 might be hitting live servers this week. Whichever it is, it's going to be a big one, so I figured I'd piece together a small guide for holy and discipline priests that recaps, follows up, and aggregates tons of stuff you might have forgotten or completely missed about the patch.

I'll also be addressing that little talent calculator that popped in for a visit in the middle of last week and wiped its feet all over my clean carpet.

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]]> 4.34.3+priest+healing4.3-ptr4.3priesthealingclass-helpdisc+priest+healing+4.3disc-priestdisc-priest-geardisc-priest-spiritual-guidancediscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancediscpriesthealing4.3divine-hymndivine-hymn-buffdragon-souldragon-soul-priestgear-listguideguide-to-priestsheavenly-voiceholy+priest+4.3holy+priest+4.3+guideholy-gearholy-priest-buffsholy-priest-gear-guideholy-priest-spiritual-guidanceholy-wordholy-word-sanctuaryholypriest4.3holypriest4.3guidelightwelloestruspatch-4.3patch-4.3-ptrpower-word-barrierpre-raidpreist-infopriest+healing+4.3priest-discipline-spiritual-guidancepriest-dragon-soulpriest-gearpriest-gear-guidepriest-guidepriest-holy-spiritual-guidancepriest-raidpriest-raid-gearpriest-raid-guidepriest-talentspriest-trinketpriest-trinketspriesthealing4.3raid-readystate-of-mindtalenttalentstier-13Tier-13-set-bonusestier-13-setswild-growth-nerfworld-of-warcraft-class-guideworld-of-warcraft-guidewow-class-guidewow-class-helpwow-guidewow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestswow-talent-guide (Dawn Moore) Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Spiritual Guidance: Patch 4.3 raid gear for holy and discipline priests]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/11/21/patch-4-3-raid-gear-for-holy-and-disc-priest/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/11/21/patch-4-3-raid-gear-for-holy-and-disc-priest/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/11/21/patch-4-3-raid-gear-for-holy-and-disc-priest/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers the healing side of things for discipline and holy priests. She also writes for LearnToRaid.com and produces the Circle of Healing Podcast.

I've always hated patch day, and not for the reasons you'd think. The servers' being down doesn't bother me, and neither do broken addons or occasional lag. What bothers me is that after spending a few straight months piecing together a good-looking outfit, I'm suddenly forced into a situation where all my gear will inevitably start to mismatch as I acquire upgrades.

That's why this upcoming patch is so amazing ... Transmogrification means I can transmogrify my new gear to match what I'm wearing until I have enough pieces to swap over to a new outfit. I know that's not as exciting as transmogrifying all my gear into a cool RP outfit, but after thinking about it for a while, I think I'd prefer to keep all my RP gear in my bags for special occasions. That way they're always special, since people will only see them once in a while.

Anyway, a new patch is right around the corner, which means shiny new priest gear is on its way too! In preparation for this, I've made a gear list for priests to reference as we progress into the newest content in the coming months.

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Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers the healing side of things for discipline and holy priests. She also writes for LearnToRaid.com and produces the Circle of Healing Podcast.

A few weeks back at BlizzCon 2011 when the Mists of Pandaria talents were first unveiled, I spoke at length with fellow priest Oestrus about her thoughts on the new talents. One of the things she proposed was very interesting to me, that the new talent system might spell the end of the strong distinction between disc and holy. The idea was that since holy and disc priests would be able to use each other's talents now, it might blur the edge between discipline and holy to a point that we'd start thinking of ourselves more as healing priests, rather than disc priests or holy priests.

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Just over a week ago, Blizzard unveiled its plans for the next expansion, Mists of Pandaria, and with it will comes a new talent system to simplify things dramatically. In the case of healing priests, it looks like we might be changing the way we view ourselves from now on, since only our spells will distinguish us from one another, not our talents. Before you know it, discipline priests will be tank healing with Serendipity and holy priests will be casting Power Infusion on themselves to call down torrents of healing. It's ... [Pandemonium joke goes here].

We better take a look at the talents before things get too furry.

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This past weekend, BlizzCon 2011 brought a plethora of announcements for World of Warcraft. Players can now look forward to pandas, a dramatically new talent system, a Pokémon-style minigame, and lots more. Priests in particular are in for radical changes with the new talents, and while I suspect some of you would like to hear my perspective on things, I'm going to wait a week and see what else unfolds from the blues as they respond to some of the more obvious questions the community is asking. This also gives me the opportunity to follow through with my original plans of introducing you guys to some of the priests I met at BlizzCon 2011.

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]]> blizzcon+2011blizzcon+2011+cosplayblizzcon+2011+priestblizzcon-2011blizzcon2011blizzcon2011cosplayblizzcon2011priestclass-helpcosplaycosplayerfeaturedguideguide-to-priestsIan-BeckmanKinaesthesiaoestruspreist-infopriest-blogpriest-guidepriest-talentsrabztalenttalentsthe-stories-of-ovodkawhitemanewhitemane-cosplayworld+of+warcraftworld-of-warcraft-class-guideworld-of-warcraft-guideworldofwarcraftwow-class-guidewow-class-helpwow-guidewow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestswow-talent-guide (Dawn Moore) Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Spiritual Guidance: Minor glyphs for discipline and holy priests, plus some pre-BlizzCon silliness]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/10/17/minor-glyphs-for-discipline-and-holy-priests/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/10/17/minor-glyphs-for-discipline-and-holy-priests/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/10/17/minor-glyphs-for-discipline-and-holy-priests/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers the healing side of things for discipline and holy priests. She also writes for LearnToRaid.com and produces the Circle of Healing Podcast.

Whenever I'm scoping out priests on the Armory or even in my own raid team, I always like to see what glyphs they pick. Mind you, there doesn't actually tend to be much variety from priest to priest. The best glyphs usually stand leaps and bounds ahead of the competition, especially with major and minor glyphs, so there isn't usually much difference between one priest or another. So why do I check? Because I'm looking to see if the priest has Glyph of Shadowfiend equipped.

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]]> class-helpdiscipline+glyphsdiscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancedisciplineglyphsfadefeaturedglyph-of-fadingglyph-of-fortitudeglyph-of-shackle-undeadglyph-of-shadowfiendguideguide-to-priestsholy+priest+glyphsholy+priest+glyphs+wowholy-priest-spiritual-guidanceholypriestglyphsholypriestglyphswowminor-glyph-priestpower-word-fortitudepreist-infopriest+minor+glyphspriest-glyphspriest-guidepriest-minor-glyphspriest-talentspriest-threatpriestminorglyphsshackle-undeadshadowfiendtalenttalentsworld-of-warcraft-class-guideworld-of-warcraft-guidewow+priest+holy+glyphswow-class-guidewow-class-helpwow-guidewow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestswow-talent-guidewowpriestholyglyphs (Dawn Moore) Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Spiritual Guidance: Holy priest stat weights revisited]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/10/10/spiritual-guidance-holy-priest-stat-weights-revisited/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/10/10/spiritual-guidance-holy-priest-stat-weights-revisited/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/10/10/spiritual-guidance-holy-priest-stat-weights-revisited/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers the healing side of things for discipline and holy priests. She also writes for LearnToRaid.com and produces the Circle of Healing Podcast.

It's been a pretty slow week for priest-related news, so it looks like I'll finally be able to get back on schedule and finish my stat weight series. It's funny how class news always sweeps through like a tornado, grabbing up everything in its path for a short time before disappearing. Personally, I'd prefer something more consistent, but I guess the only way Blizzard could manage that is do away with the other nine classes and change the game to World of Priestcraft. One class, 30 different specs ("paladin" would be one of them), divided up between two factions: holy and shadow. It'd be like the Crusades, or Aion, except not as depressing as both of those were.

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]]> class-helpdisc+priest+stat+weightsdiscprieststatweightsfeaturedgh-statguideguide-to-priestsholy+priestholy+priest+stat+priority+firelandsholy+priest+stat+weightholy+priest+stat+weighting+4.2holy+priest+stat+weightsholy+priest+statsholy-healingholy-priestholy-priest-spiritual-guidanceholy-raid-healingholy-stat-priorityholy-stat-weightholy-stat-weightsholy-tank-healingholypriestholyprieststatpriorityfirelandsholyprieststatsholyprieststatweightholyprieststatweighting4.2holyprieststatweightspoh-spamprayer-of-healingpreist-infopriest-guidepriest-holy-spiritual-guidancepriest-stat-prioritypriest-stat-weightpriest-statspriest-talentsrenew-spamtalenttalentstank-healingworld-of-warcraft-class-guideworld-of-warcraft-guidewow+holy+stat+prioritywow-class-helpwow-guidewow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestswow-talent-guidewowholystatpriority (Dawn Moore) Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Spiritual Guidance: Patch 4.3 holy priest buffs and more tier 13 set bonuses]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/10/03/spiritual-guidance-patch-4-3-holy-priest-buffs-and-more-tier-13/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/10/03/spiritual-guidance-patch-4-3-holy-priest-buffs-and-more-tier-13/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/10/03/spiritual-guidance-patch-4-3-holy-priest-buffs-and-more-tier-13/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers the healing side of things for discipline and holy priests. She also writes for LearnToRaid.com and produces the Circle of Healing Podcast.

You'd really think after all this time Blizzard would have done the obvious and invented some sort of healing hand grenade for holy priests. It could be the little brother of Lightwell or perhaps some sort of talent upgrade to Holy Nova -- toss the grenade to a specific location on the dungeon floor and in 10, 15, or whatever seconds, an explosion of AOE healing would nuke the area. Wouldn't that be fun? Naturally there'd have to be some witty flavor text on the tooltip, but -- wait, what day is this? Dawn looks at her calendar. Oh! Uh ... Never mind what I just said.

Today, we've got to get caught up on patch 4.3 news. We've been up to our necks in priest news from patch 4.3 recently. Last week, we got a first look at our two-piece and four-piece set bonuses for priest tier 13; this week, we got a look at the gear model itself and a hefty list of mostly positive changes. We also (shock and awe) already received a few tweaks to our tier 13 set bonuses, so there is quite a lot to tackle today. First, let's talk fashion.

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Spiritual Guidance: Patch 4.3 holy priest buffs and more tier 13 set bonuses originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]> 4.34.3+holy+priest4.3+holy+priest+guide4.3-ptr4.3holypriest4.3holypriestguideclass-helpdisc-priest-spiritual-guidancediscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancedivine-hymndivine-hymn-bufffeaturedguideguide-to-priestsheavenly-voiceholy+priest+4.3holy+priest+4.3+guideholy+priest+guide+4.3holy-priest-buffsholy-priest-spiritual-guidanceholy-wordholy-word-sanctuaryholypriest4.3holypriest4.3guideholypriestguide4.3lightwelloestruspatch-4.3patch-4.3-ptrpower-word-barrierpreist-infopriest-guidepriest-talentsspirit-link-totemstate-of-mindtalenttalentstier-13tier-13-mageTier-13-set-bonusestier-13-setswild-growth-nerfworld-of-warcraft-class-guideworld-of-warcraft-guidewow-class-guidewow-class-helpwow-guidewow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestswow-talent-guide (Dawn Moore) Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Spiritual Guidance: A first look at tier 13 set bonuses for holy and discipline priests]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/09/26/tier-13-priest-holy-discipline-set-bonuses/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/09/26/tier-13-priest-holy-discipline-set-bonuses/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/09/26/tier-13-priest-holy-discipline-set-bonuses/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers the healing side of things for discipline and holy priests. She also writes for LearnToRaid.com and produces the Circle of Healing Podcast.

Over the weekend, Blizzard released a preview of tier 13 set bonuses, which for priests means despite not having any idea what priest tier 13 is going to look like at the moment, we now at least know what it does. Exciting, huh? So as you can expect we're going to take a look at the two-piece and four-piece bonuses today and give the lot of it a little analysis for discipline and holy priests. Let's have a look, shall we?

  • Two-piece After using Power Infusion or Lightwell, the mana cost of your healing spells is reduced by 25% for [10|15] seconds (10 seconds for discipline, 15 for non-discipline).
  • Four-piece Your Power Word: Shield has a 10% chance to absorb 100% additional damage, and the cooldown of your Holy Word abilities is reduced by 20%.

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Spiritual Guidance: A first look at tier 13 set bonuses for holy and discipline priests originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]> class-helpdisc-priest-spiritual-guidancediscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancefeaturedguideguide-to-priestsholy-priest-spiritual-guidancepreist-infopriest-guidepriest-talentstalenttalentsworld-of-warcraft-class-guideworld-of-warcraft-guidewow-class-guidewow-class-helpwow-guidewow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestswow-talent-guide (Dawn Moore) Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[About the Bloggers: Dawn Moore]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/09/14/about-the-bloggers-dawn-moore/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/09/14/about-the-bloggers-dawn-moore/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/09/14/about-the-bloggers-dawn-moore/#comments About the Bloggers introduces you to the people behind WoW Insider. You can find articles on more of our staffers in earlier About the Bloggers profiles.

Today you'll be meeting Dawn Moore, admirer of Dwarven hunters in-game rocks.

What do you do for WoW Insider?

Since January 2010, I've been one of the two columnists covering Spiritual Guidance, WoW Insider's biweekly priest column. I write specifically for the two healing trees, holy and discipline, since Fox Van Allen stole 1/3 of my job covers shadow. In addition to my column, I also unofficially cover the news and articles WoW Insider publishes on the Warcraft movie, since I keep a pretty watchful eye on the film industry.

Periodically, I also write feature articles on random topics such as vegetables and superhero costumes.

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About the Bloggers: Dawn Moore originally appeared on WoW Insider on Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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