WoW Insiderhttp://wow.joystiq.comWoW Insiderhttp://wow.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gifWoW Insiderhttp://wow.joystiq.comen-usCopyright 2015 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only.Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/WoW Insider ShowEvery week, the WoW Insider Show brings you news and views from the World of Warcraft and the site that covers it all, WoW Insider. We introduce a panel of rotating guests, including bloggers from WoW Insider and other WoW blogs, and many popular personalities from around the WoW community. From the live listener chat and polls during the show, to the emails direct from listeners (reach us at theshow@wow.com), right on to the "meat" of the show -- in-depth discussion of the most popular news and posts on WoW Insider -- the WoW Insider Show is a terrific source of news and entertainment about what's going on with Blizzard and their World of Warcraft. Listen live every Saturday at 3:30 pm Eastern on our Ustream page (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wow-insider-show) or subscribe to the feed and let us know what you think by reviewing the show right here in iTunes.Spiritual Guidance: Discipline and holy priest stat weights and gear in tier 15http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/04/04/spiritual-guidance-discipline-and-holy-priest-stat-weights-and/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/04/04/spiritual-guidance-discipline-and-holy-priest-stat-weights-and/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/04/04/spiritual-guidance-discipline-and-holy-priest-stat-weights-and/#commentsFiled under: ,

Spiritual Guidance Discipline and holy priest stat weights and gear in tier 15
WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore is a discipline priest by reputation, but still enjoys melting faces as shadow and bugging her raid to click the Lightwell as holy.

A while back Spiritual Guidance looked at the various upgrade options for priests in patch 5.2. Today we'll be discussing which of those upgrades you want to take, depending on whether you're a discipline or holy (the weighty topic of shadow will be covered next week). Discipline priests in particular saw some big changes with the release of patch 5.2 and will want to adjust their strategy for selecting new gear from here on. Since we're already talking about disc, let's start there.

Most of you probably know the basics. When gearing, don't take intellect downgrades and be sure to mostly select gear with spirit on it for mana regeneration. How much spirit do you want? There's no hard, set number to aim for; the goal is to find an amount that allows you to get through most encounters without running out of mana too early. This will be different for everyone so just go with what feels comfortable, remembering that you can always supplement a shortage of spirit with consumables (food and flasks) for fights that are more stressful on your mana pool than most others. (Rememeber that it's not necessary to gear for that one tough fight, and then be running surplus mana the rest of the time.)

With that said, let's look at what has really changed: secondary stats.

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]]>disc-priest-geardisc-priest-gear-guidedisc-priest-spiritual-guidancediscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancefeaturedgear-guideghostcrawlerguide-to-priestsholy-priest-gearholy-priest-gear-guideholy-priest-spiritual-guidanceloot-listpatch-5.2priest-gearpriest-gear-guidepriest-guidepriest-infopriest-talentsshadshado-pan-assaultthrone-of-thunderwow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestsDawn MooreThu, 04 Apr 2013 19:00:00 ESTSpiritual Guidance: Priest gear in patch 5.2 and Throne of Thunderhttp://wow.joystiq.com/2013/03/07/spiritual-guidance-priest-gear-in-patch-5-2-and-throne-of-thund/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/03/07/spiritual-guidance-priest-gear-in-patch-5-2-and-throne-of-thund/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/03/07/spiritual-guidance-priest-gear-in-patch-5-2-and-throne-of-thund/#commentsFiled under: ,

Spiritual Guidance Priest gear in patch 52 and Throne of Thunder
WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore is a discipline priest by reputation, but still enjoys melting faces as shadow and bugging her raid to click the Lightwell as holy.

Priests have a tremendous amount of gear choices available to them in patch 5.2. There are several valor point options tied to the Shado-Pan Assault faction. Epics can also be obtained in a new, single player scenario, Troves of the Thunder King. And, well, obviously upgrades can be found in the latest raid instance, Throne of Thunder. To get started, let's take a look at the new tailoring gear priests can pick up.

In patch 5.2, tailors have a chance to learn ilvl 522 cloth armor patterns from their daily cloth cooldown. The new crafted gear is BoE, so if you're not a tailor you may be able to purchase it from the auction house or commission it from a guildmate. These items require Imperial Silk and Haunting Spirits, though, so expect them to be costly.

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Spiritual Guidance Disciplinary action reworked for patch 52

WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Matticus is now a panda. He wields shadowy powers as well as his chopsticks but continues to play supportive healing roles in challenge modes. Stop by the World of Matticus for more!

Greetings my brothers and sisters!

It has been too long since I've donned my healing robes. I've been predominantly shadow this whole expansion. I will be spiritually guiding you this week at Dawn's request and we are getting ever closer to a patch 5.2 drop. With the PvP season ending soon, you can bet your trinkets that a release is imminent. The final stages of patch development are winding down. Most of the new abilities or talent changes have been overhauled. Now it's all about tuning and numbers. There's been some fundamental patch changes recently since the last time the PTR changes were reviewed.

To summarize:

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]]>5.25.2-ptrdisciplinedivine-aegisfeaturedguide-to-priestspatch-5.2power-word-shieldpower-word-solacepriest-guidepriest-infopriest-talentswow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestsMatt LowThu, 21 Feb 2013 19:00:00 ESTExamining the tier 15 priest set bonuseshttp://wow.joystiq.com/2013/01/16/examining-the-tier-15-priest-set-bonuses/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/01/16/examining-the-tier-15-priest-set-bonuses/http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/01/16/examining-the-tier-15-priest-set-bonuses/#commentsFiled under: ,

Spiritual Guidance Examining the tier 15 priest set bonuses
WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore is a discipline priest by reputation, but still enjoys melting faces as shadow and bugging her raid to click the Lightwell as holy.

Last week, priests (and other less amazing classes) got a first look at the tier 15 set bonuses in the works for patch 5.2. The reactions so far have been mixed. Most discipline and holy priests seem to have had their interests piqued, while many shadow priests were seen grumbling discontentedly during the first few days. Have a look for yourself.
  • Healer two-piece Your Prayer of Mending heals for 10% more each time it jumps to a new target.
  • Healer four-piece Your Penance and Circle of Healing have a 40% chance to summon a Golden Apparition, which moves to a nearby ally and heals for an additional 92500 to 107500.
  • Shadow two-piece When your Shadowy Apparitions damage their target, they have a 65% chance to extend the duration of your Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch, causing each to deal damage one additional time.
  • Shadow four-piece Periodic damage from your Vampiric Touch has a 10% chance to trigger your Shadowy Apparition.
Blizzard has been fairly responsive to many complaints and inquiries made about these bonuses. For example, when shadow priests pointed out that Shadowy Apparitions were slow, buggy, and only a small portion of shadow DPS, Blizzard responded by letting us know that the cap was going to be raised for priests with the two-piece bonus, if not removed entirely. The developers also mentioned that work had been done to improve the AI on Shadowy Apparitions and get rid of bugs. Sound good?

Update: This article has been updated for build 16467, with changes notated in bold.

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]]>df-maindivine-aegisfeaturedguide-to-priestshow-to-priesthowtopriest.compower-word-shieldprayer-of-healingpriest-guidepriest-infopriest-talentsshadow-word-insanityspirit-shelltier-15wow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestsDawn MooreWed, 16 Jan 2013 20:00:00 ESTSpiritual Guidance: Priests and the 5.2 patch note previewhttp://wow.joystiq.com/2012/12/27/spiritual-guidance-priests-and-the-5-2-patch-note-preview/http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/12/27/spiritual-guidance-priests-and-the-5-2-patch-note-preview/http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/12/27/spiritual-guidance-priests-and-the-5-2-patch-note-preview/#commentsFiled under: ,

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WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore is a discipline priest by reputation, but still enjoys melting faces as shadow and bugging her raid to click the Lightwell as holy.

Looks like there are some big changes in store for priests on the patch 5.2 PTR. Blizzard released a PTR patch note preview late last week and I'm honestly a bit baffled by some of the changes. Keep in mind, I am not often baffled.

The biggest change is that Power Word: Solace is being redesigned. The talent will now replace Holy Fire in the player's spellbook, but interact with other priest spells and abilities just as Holy Fire does. The new version of Power Word: Solace will be instant cast, cost no mana, and restore 1% of your maximum mana on cast. Surprisingly, the patch note preview makes no mention of redesigning Shadow Word: Insanity, the shadow portion of the talent.

Now it's no shock that Blizzard decided to redesign this talent. A quick glance at WoW Popular will tell you that almost no priests are taking it (in fact, it looks like more of us are taking Dominate Mind than Power Word: Solace). Shadow priests certainly aren't taking the talent, and most healers will tell you it returns too little mana per cast to be worth it.

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]]>5.2angelic-featherbody-and-souldisc-priest-spiritual-guidancediscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancedominate-mindfeaturedguide-to-priestsholy-priest-spiritual-guidancepatch-5.2-ptrpower-word-solacepriest-guidepriest-infopriest-talentsraptureSHADOW-PRIEST-SPIRITUAL-GUIDANCEshadow-word-insanityspirit-shellwow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestsDawn MooreThu, 27 Dec 2012 19:00:00 ESTSpiritual Guidance: Choosing the best priest talents for you, pt. 2http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/12/20/spiritual-guidance-choosing-the-best-priest-talents-for-you-pt/http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/12/20/spiritual-guidance-choosing-the-best-priest-talents-for-you-pt/http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/12/20/spiritual-guidance-choosing-the-best-priest-talents-for-you-pt/#commentsFiled under: ,

Choosing the best priest talents for you, pt 2
WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore is a discipline priest by reputation, but still enjoys melting faces as shadow and bugging her raid to click the Lightwell as holy.

Last time on Spiritual Guidance we began a thorough look at level 15 and level 30 priest talents and considered when and why you would take one talent over the other. This week we're continuing that discussion with level 45 and level 60 talents.

From Darkness, Comes Light For healers, this talent serves as a regen talent by saving players mana instead of returning it. The performance of it is very dependent on your spell usage, which means the regen cannot be easily quantified down to a simple number.

From Darkness, Comes Light can only be triggered by a handful of spells (Heal, Flash Heal, Greater Heal, Binding Heal, and Smite) making the talent practically useless to some players. For example, a holy priest who spends most of her time raid healing her 25-man raid (that always stands in fire) could go a whole fight without seeing a single proc from this talent. On the other hand, a 10-man disc priest who spends most of his time swapping between healing the paladin tank and spamming Smite heals could expect several procs during a fight.

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]]>angelic-bulwarkdesperate-prayerdisc-priest-spiritual-guidancediscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancefdclfeaturedfrom-darkness-comes-lightguide-to-priestsholy-priest-spiritual-guidancemindbenderpower-word-solacepriest-guidepriest-infopriest-talentsSHADOW-PRIEST-SPIRITUAL-GUIDANCEshadowfiendspectral-guisewow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestsDawn MooreThu, 20 Dec 2012 12:00:00 ESTSpiritual Guidance: Choosing the best priest talents for you, pt. 1http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/12/05/spiritual-guidance-choosing-the-best-priest-talents-for-you-pt/http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/12/05/spiritual-guidance-choosing-the-best-priest-talents-for-you-pt/http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/12/05/spiritual-guidance-choosing-the-best-priest-talents-for-you-pt/#commentsFiled under: ,

Spiritual Guidance Choosing the best priest talents for you, pt 1
WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore is a discipline priest by reputation, but still enjoys melting faces as shadow and bugging her raid to click the Lightwell as holy.

One of the most interesting things about the new talent system added in Mists of Pandaria is that it encourages priests (and all classes) to choose which talent is best for them at almost every turn. No longer is one talent clearly better than another when examining them in a bell jar. Now instead you have to look at how and where the talent will be used; one talent might shine brightly in certain scenarios but be so utterly awful in others that it's practically unusable. The result of all this? We're now adjusting our talent builds more than ever.

Of course, this isn't a new thing for DPS, who frequently swapped to alternative talent builds on each encounter to get the best possible damage (got to beat those 'locks!) but for healers it's more of a change. In the past, a healing priest might have considered switching between disc or holy, but rarely did that involve altering individual talents in our trees. Usually healers had an all-purpose build that was good for everything; changing around talents was only done on the rare occasion. That makes this new talent system a bit of a shake up for us, since the majority of priests are healers (two healing specs and all). So today I thought we'd look at the new priest talents as thoroughly as we could so it's easier to decide which one you want.

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]]>angelic-featherbody-and-souldisc-priest-spiritual-guidancediscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancedominate-mindfeaturedguide-to-priestsholy-priest-spiritual-guidancemind-controlphantasmpower-word-shieldpriest-guidepriest-infopriest-talentspsyfiendSHADOW-PRIEST-SPIRITUAL-GUIDANCEvoid-tendrilswow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestsDawn MooreWed, 05 Dec 2012 19:00:00 ESTSpiritual Guidance: A quick look at Patch 5.1 for priestshttp://wow.joystiq.com/2012/11/30/spiritual-guidance-a-quick-look-at-patch-5-1-for-priests/http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/11/30/spiritual-guidance-a-quick-look-at-patch-5-1-for-priests/http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/11/30/spiritual-guidance-a-quick-look-at-patch-5-1-for-priests/#commentsFiled under: ,

Spiritual Guidance A quick look at Patch 51 for priests
WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore is a discipline priest by reputation, but still enjoys melting faces as shadow and bugging her raid to click the Lightwell as holy.

Since launch, priests have received most of their buffs and nerfs through hot fixes, but the arrival of patch 5.1 still brings some changes for us. Holy priests in particular have received several buffs which will improve their quality of life. One such change allows Chakra to persist through death, meaning the days of seeing Holy Word: Chatise on your bars when you're 2 minutes into a pull, frustratedly wondering why Holy word: Sanctuary isn't working, are over.

Another holy change buffs Chakra: Chastise so that damage dealt by shadow and holy spells while in the stance will now do 50% increased damage, instead of 15%. An excellent change, since prior to the patch, it took holy priests 15*(2^27) Smite casts to kill a mob. Now it should only take about 10.

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]]>5.1disc-priest-spiritual-guidancediscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancefeaturedGhostcrawlerguide-to-priestsholy-priest-spiritual-guidancemultidotpatch-5.1priest-guidepriest-infopriest-talentsSHADOW-PRIEST-SPIRITUAL-GUIDANCEwow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestsDawn MooreFri, 30 Nov 2012 16:00:00 ESTSpiritual Guidance: Holy and discipline priest healing (if you've never done it before)http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/11/14/spiritual-guidance-holy-and-discipline-priest-healing-if-youv/http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/11/14/spiritual-guidance-holy-and-discipline-priest-healing-if-youv/http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/11/14/spiritual-guidance-holy-and-discipline-priest-healing-if-youv/#commentsFiled under: ,

Spiritual Guidance Priest healing if you've never done it before WED
WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore is a discipline priest by reputation, but still enjoys melting faces as shadow and bugging her raid to click the Lightwell as holy.

A reader contacted me when Mists of Pandaria was first released and asked if I had plans to write a 101 guide for discipline healing. Without thinking about it, I sent back a link to Guide to Mists of Pandaria discipline priests and went about my day.

The reader wrote me back though, and asked if I had planned to write an actual 101 guide, that is, a guide for someone who has never played a priest before. Ohh ... I understood then what she had meant. Be it that I am now telling you this story, it should be obvious that I thought that was a good idea.

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]]>101101-guidechakrachakrasdisc-priest-spiritual-guidancediscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancefeaturedguide-to-priestshealing-guideholy-priest-spiritual-guidancepriest-101priest-guidepriest-infopriest-spellsspirit-shellwow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestsDawn MooreWed, 14 Nov 2012 14:00:00 ESTSpiritual Guidance: Guide to Mists of Pandaria shadow priestshttp://wow.joystiq.com/2012/10/24/spiritual-guidance-guide-to-mists-of-pandaria-shadow-priests/http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/10/24/spiritual-guidance-guide-to-mists-of-pandaria-shadow-priests/http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/10/24/spiritual-guidance-guide-to-mists-of-pandaria-shadow-priests/#commentsFiled under: ,

Spiritual Guidance Guide to Mists of Pandaria shadow priests
WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore is a discipline priest by reputation, but still enjoys melting faces as shadow and bugging her raid to click the Lightwell as holy.

My dear friend Frostheim once proclaimed that shadow was a gateway spec. He warned me that priests who delved into shadow's dark delights were at a heightened risk of one day becoming warlocks. Yes, warlocks.

Of course, nothing has been proven yet. Early clinical trials have only shown us correlation, not causation; so if you're willing to accept the risk, today's guide is for playing a shadow priest in Mists of Pandaria.

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]]>featuredguide-to-priestslevel-90-shadow-priest-enchantslevel-90-shadow-priest-gemslevel-90-shadow-priest-statslevel-90-shadow-priest-talentsMind-Spikepriest-101priest-guidepriest-infopriest-talentsshadowshadow-101shadow-priestshadow-priest-dps-spiritual-guidanceshadow-priest-enchantsshadow-priest-gemsshadow-priest-glyphsSHADOW-PRIEST-SPIRITUAL-GUIDANCEspriestwow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestsDawn MooreWed, 24 Oct 2012 19:00:00 ESTSpiritual Guidance: Guide to Mists of Pandaria holy priestshttp://wow.joystiq.com/2012/10/10/spiritual-guidance-guide-to-mists-of-pandaria-holy-priests/http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/10/10/spiritual-guidance-guide-to-mists-of-pandaria-holy-priests/http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/10/10/spiritual-guidance-guide-to-mists-of-pandaria-holy-priests/#commentsFiled under: ,

Spiritual Guidance Guide to Mists of Pandaria holy priests
WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore is a discipline priest by reputation, but still enjoys melting faces as shadow and bugging her raid to click the Lightwell as holy.

Are you going to be playing a holy priest in Mists of Pandaria? Are you up to date on what's different? Do you know what talents to pick, or what gear you want? If you don't, this guide will explain the changes, help you select talents, and give you suggestions on picking out gear for your character. Let's start with the changes.
  • Lightspring You know how priests have always been begging Blizzard to make Lightwell work like that Lightwell in Trial of the Champion? The one that spits out heals at players instead of requiring them to click on it? Well, we finally got it. It's called Lightspring, and you can get it by inscribing the Glyph of Lightspring. It does just as much healing as Lightwell, except it does it over time and only heals players below 50% health.
  • Chakra The three Chakra states (Chakra: Serenity, Chakra: Sanctuary, and Chakra: Chastise) have become stances which players can now swap between as they please. Previously you had to activate Chakra states by casting a corresponding spell, but now you can simply bind each state to a key and switch like druids or warriors. Unfortunately, there is a 30-second cooldown on each stance so you can't quickly swap between the stances to maximize your Chakra usage down to the individual spell. You'll still be able to switch Chakra several times during a fight though.

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]]>chakrafeaturedguide-to-priestsholy-priest-spiritual-guidancepriest-guidepriest-infopriest-talentswow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestsDawn MooreWed, 10 Oct 2012 14:00:00 ESTSpiritual Guidance: Priest gear preparation for heroic dungeons and raidshttp://wow.joystiq.com/2012/10/03/spiritual-guidance-priest-gear-preparation-for-heroic-dungeons/http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/10/03/spiritual-guidance-priest-gear-preparation-for-heroic-dungeons/http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/10/03/spiritual-guidance-priest-gear-preparation-for-heroic-dungeons/#commentsFiled under: ,

Spiritual Guidance Priest gear preparation for heroic dungeons and raids
WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore is a discipline priest by reputation, but still enjoys melting faces as shadow and bugging her raid to click the Lightwell as holy.

When you get your priest to level 90, gearing up your character will probably be one of the many things on your mind. Your first inclination may be to run heroic dungeons, but what if your item level isn't high enough to use the dungeon finder? Maybe you're looking beyond that, and wondering what you'll need to queue for the raid finder when it becomes available in the next two weeks.

Or, if you're like me, you're probably scouring Pandaria, trying to find all the best possible items outside of raids, so that your raid leader likes you when you start running normal mode raids in the near future.

Well, whether you're a shadow priest or a holy priest, this is the guide for you.

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Mists of Pandaria Guide to discipline priests
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore is a discipline priest by reputation, but still enjoys melting faces as shadow and bugging her raid to click the Lightwell as holy.

If you plan on healing as a discipline priest in Mists of Pandaria, you're going to be met with a lot of changes this expansion. Fortunately, most of the changes are good and the spec's unique playstyle remains intact. Actually, if anything, discipline is better at doing everything it did before, from dishing out absorbs to Smite healing.

Today's guide will show you how discipline has changed, and how to approach it in the new expansion. We'll examine ways to use the spec's new abilities and talents, as well as stat priorities and gearing your character. To get started, let's look at some new abilities and changes made to old ones.
  • Archangel and Evangelism When using Archangel, the spell will no longer restore a percentage of mana per stack of Evangelism. The healing buff Archangel grants, however, is much bigger and can be incorporated into play whenever additional throughput is needed. Something to know: Penance, when used on an enemy target, will now grant a stack of Evangelism just as Smite and Holy Fire already do.
  • Dispel Magic and Purify Dispel Magic is now only for offensive dispelling on enemy targets. To dispel debuffs on an ally, you'll be using a new spell called Purify, which removes all harmful magic and disease effects. Purify has an 8-second cooldown.
  • Inner Focus This cooldown ability was once used to save mana, now it's a throughput cooldown instead. Use it before casting Flash Heal, Greater Heal, or Prayer of Healing and that spell will automatically strike for critical healing.
  • Mass Dispel This spell can no longer be spammed continuously due to a newly added 15-second cooldown, but it now removes all harmful magical effects from allies when cast. It will only remove one beneficial effect from an enemy.

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Spiritual Guidance Shadow priests and leveling in Mists of Pandaria MON
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore is a discipline priest by reputation, but still enjoys melting faces as shadow and bugging her raid to click the Lightwell as holy.

"I have a bad feeling about this."

That's what you should be saying to yourself after reading my name in the byline. (If you're smart, that is.) Anyway, if you missed the news, your beloved Fox Van Allen has stepped down from his position as WoW Insider's resident shadow priest columnist. He's moved on to writing about iPods or something, which means you're stuck with me for now. I will do my best to make this as painless as possible.

So Mists of Pandaria is just two weeks away now, and while I'm far from considering myself an expert shadow priest (more on that later) I've leveled a few shadow priests to 90 on the beta in preparation for the race to level 90. In the process I think I've figured out some of the nuance, so I thought I'd share it so you can start thinking about how you'll get your own 85 shadow priest to level cap.

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]]>devouring-plaguefeaturedguide-to-priestslevelingmists-of-pandariapriest-guidepriest-infopriest-talentsshadow-orbsSHADOW-PRIEST-SPIRITUAL-GUIDANCEvampiric-embracewow-priestwow-priest-infowow-priestsDawn MooreMon, 10 Sep 2012 17:00:00 ESTSpiritual Guidance: Discipline and holy priests changes in patch 5.0.4http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/08/27/spiritual-guidance-discipline-and-holy-priests-changes-in-patch/http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/08/27/spiritual-guidance-discipline-and-holy-priests-changes-in-patch/http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/08/27/spiritual-guidance-discipline-and-holy-priests-changes-in-patch/#commentsFiled under: ,

Discipline and holy priests changes in patch 504
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers healing for discipline and holy priests.

I'll admit that I got a bit spoiled using Angelic Feather on the beta. It just makes questing on foot so much quicker. Whoosh! Whoosh! It's great fun and makes errands between the mailbox and auction house so much more efficient. I have another priest to level to 85 before Mists of Pandaria comes out, so I've been anxiously awaiting patch 5.0.4 to go live so I could level in style. Whoosh!

Anyway, with the existing talent system getting tossed out the window, many of your favorite priest talents are moving around or undergoing changes. Many talents will now take the form of passive abilities granted by your specialization. Some talents will actually remain talents but will now be accessible to all three priest specializations instead of restricted to certain trees. The list after the jump will tell you where many of your talents will have gone after patch 5.0.4 hits. If you don't see a favorite talent of yours, keep reading! It's probably one of the new (well, sort of new) talents.

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Mists of Pandaria beta From Power Word Solace to Power Infusion, the latest on holy and discipline priests
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. Dawn Moore covers healing for discipline and holy priests, while her archenemy Fox Van Allen dabbles in shadow.

Since its introduction, the new level 45 priest talent, Power Word: Solace, has undergone several changes. First, it had the percentage of mana it returned per cast reduced from 2% to 1.5%. A little over a week after that, the percentage was buffed back up to 2% while the cast time was simultaneously nerfed from 1.5 seconds to 2 seconds. Then just last week, the cast time was lowered back to 1.5 seconds, while the amount of mana returned was lowered to a mere .7% per cast. Pretty crazy for one little spell, right?

As you'd expect, a lot of discussion has come up over the changes, with one thread on the official forums leading it all. In it, the original poster asks for an explanation behind the nerfs, saying that even though he hated using Power Word: Solace with a fiery passion, the talent was necessary for healing priests. Ghostcrawler (Lead Systems Developer Greg Street) responded soon after, explaining that the developers don't want Power Word: Solace to feel like the only option healing priests have, and they will nerf it until priests consider Mindbender and From Darkness, Comes Light viable alternatives.

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]]>chakrachakra-sanctuarychakra-serenitydisc-priest-spiritual-guidancediscipline-meditationdiscipline-priest-spiritual-guidancedivine-insightGhostcrawlerholy-novaholy-priest-spiritual-guidanceholy-word-sanctuarymeditationmindbendermists-of-pandariamists-of-pandaria-betapower-infusionpower-word-solaceprayer-of-mendingpriest-tier-14renewtier-14twist-of-fateDawn MooreMon, 13 Aug 2012 18:00:00 ESTSpiritual Guidance: Thoughts on playing a discipline priest in Mists of Pandariahttp://wow.joystiq.com/2012/07/16/spiritual-guidance-thoughts-on-playing-a-discipline-priest-in-m/http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/07/16/spiritual-guidance-thoughts-on-playing-a-discipline-priest-in-m/http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/07/16/spiritual-guidance-thoughts-on-playing-a-discipline-priest-in-m/#commentsFiled under: ,

Spiritual Guidance Thoughts on playing a disciple priest in the Mists of Pandaria beta
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 decided that playing a healing priest is a lot like being a pregnant woman. No, really, let me explain! OK, so admittedly I don't know what it's like to be pregnant, but I've observed enough friends and family going through the process to have come up with this analogy. Here it goes ...

So you know how when a woman is pregnant, people will start inviting themselves into awkward and personal conversations with her, or they'll randomly put their hands all over her stomach as though it had been declared a national park? Well, that's what it's like to play a healing priest. Here's how it happens.

You'll be healing away in a raid or a 5-man, minding your own business, when someone will invite themselves into a one-sided conversation with you where they tell you what spec you should be playing and why. If you're disc, they'll tell you to go holy; if you're holy, well, you get the idea. In these conversations, your reasoning and expertise will always be deemed irrelevant because you're clearly in the wrong spec to begin with and because this random person has a really, really good reason for suggesting you change specs. (Never mind that it's almost always based on some broad generalization or the performance of the spec five tiers ago.)

Try to tell them no, and you'll get accusations of being selfish or stubborn. Don't you know that if you change specs, every single problem the group is having (including the fact that everyone is standing in fire) will cease to happen and the boss will immediately drop dead and explode in a shower of epics?

Anyway, the reason for telling you all that is because I want to start talking about how disc and holy have been playing in the Mists of Pandaria beta right now. I've had a lot of outstanding thoughts about both specs during the past month and a half, and it's time we discussed them. There's a lot to talk about, though, so I'm going to break it up over two parts. This week, we'll talk about discipline, then holy in two weeks. Holy priests shouldn't feel completely left out, though, as I also have some news items to go over for them.

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Spiritual Guidance Priest healing in the Mists of Pandaria beta
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 just my luck that two days after I wrote my last installment of Spiritual Guidance, a brand new level 45 priest talent appeared on the Mists of Pandaria beta. The new talent, called Power Word: Solace, is a damage-for-mana ability that players can cast on enemy targets to receive 6,000 mana in return. It has a 1.5-second cast time, costs no mana to cast, doesn't have a cooldown, and always returns mana, even if the damage portion of the spell misses its target.

The arrival of a new talent like this always raises a lot of questions. How does Power Word: Solace stand up to the other level 45 talents, Mindbender and From Darkness, Comes Light? Is it better or worse than either of those two talents? As a healing priest, what talent will I want to choose?

Well, first off, it's important to remember that the new talent system is specifically designed to put an end to cookie-cutter talent specs. Talents will now be balanced with one another in such a way that no one talent is better than the others overall. One talent might end up being better than another in a specific scenario where the mechanics of the situation complement it or just clash with the other two options. In that sense, Blizzard is right on mark with Power Word: Solace. Let's compare it to Mindbender so you can see how.

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Spiritual Guidance Mists of Pandaria and the evolution of a shadow priest
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. On alternate Wednesdays, shadow priesting expert Fox Van Allen comes from out of the shadows to bask in your loving adoration.

Ladies and gentleman, I have returned! I know the wait was absolutely excruciating, and though Dawn Moore was an apt replacement for a week, it's like getting a hit of methadone instead of your pure Fox Van Heroin.

This week, I hope you'll bear with me, because I'd like to tell you a bit of a story: the story of how one Fox Van Allen found a game called World of Warcraft and of how his approach to the game changed throughout the year. There's a message buried in there somewhere, I promise.

Anyway, think back to it -- your first day of WoW. Maybe you played a priest since the very beginning, but for me, it was a warrior. Priests, so far as I was concerned, were a healing class. And I wanted to break stuff.

So, there me were. Me Fox. Me smash! But me no happy. Warrior make Fox sad. No like fight boomchicken close up. Want ranged attack! Control chicken mind! Make fall off cliff! Boomkin sadness fun for Fox!

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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.

On my journey to level 90, the new priest talent Divine Star was what I found myself looking forward to the most. When the ability had first been announced at BlizzCon 2012, a few commenters suggested that the spell would probably behave just like Prismatic Barrier, an ability from League of Legends. Prismatic Barrier allows your character (specifically the character Lux) to throw her wand to a targeted location, shielding any allies standing in the wands path, then return to your character. When the wand returns, it returns to Lux's current location, as opposed to the location where she was standing when she first threw it, thus allowing you the potential to heal several different players in the two paths of the wand.

The prospect of being able to do this in WoW had a huge appeal to me because it required a certain degree of raid awareness that went beyond just staying out of the fire. Using it to its full potential would mean knowing where everyone in your raid was and positioning yourself in optimal locations to get the best of it. In League of Legends, these types of abilities are called skillshots because they require good aim and timing to be effective. I loved the idea of having that in WoW.

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