I’ve been lurking in the AH too—for mojo!

Playing 60+ in Burning crusade nets a LOT of money, although the gear is worth more so repairs are costly… I have been experimenting with new Holy/Disc builds with my 62 priest and I think I have one that is working for me. 23 Discipline, 28 Holy, and 2 Shadow. All decked out and potioned I can get my holy crits up to 16%, regular spells about 11%. Now when I crit ANY SPELL (even heals) I get a 50% chance to cast an instant and FREE smite! Although you only have 10 seconds to click it or it goes away. Right now I have about +300dmg to spells and smite hits for about 700 regularly and 1000-1100 on crits. It gets kind of repetitive in fights - smite, smite, smite, smite, smite, smite, Shadow Word:Death, which (for those that don’t know) is an instant ‘finishing’ move that does about 600dmg (for me) and can crit, however if the spell DOESNT kill who you cast it on, it does the EXACT same damage to YOU! Most fights I still have some shield left over so if it doesn’t kill them most of the spell is absorbed and 1-2 wand shots finishes them. What this means in groups is that if you have the Spirit Tap talent you can try to get the killing blow and up your spirit by 100% for 12 seconds, reducing your downtime in between pulls! Let me tell you that 600 spirit, even for 12 seconds is a LOT of mana regen! :)

I did Shadow spec until 60, and I didn’t like going into groups like that because I couldn’t heal well, this way at least the talents I have can be used to heal as well as damage, not to mention I get the odd smite in there for FREE.

One of the other talents I couldn’t live without is a Discipline one: Inner Focus. Click it (3min cooldown) and you get your next cast spell for FREE and increases the crit chance by 25%!! In groups I usually use it for the group heal and chances are I get on average 2-3 crits and I’ll get a free Smite out of it! :D

I mainly picked this build so that I wouldn’t have to respec all the time, I can group, solo, PVP and still be effective in all 3! Fun Fun Fun… Not sure how that would translate in to a level 20-30 build… I found those levels to be pretty difficult, and tried to duo/group as much as possible (which helps in the training to be a good priest in later levels too) and found that I lost some of that experience going solely Shadow spec in the later levels. Shadow has some neat ways to heal (Vampiric embrace) which is VERY nice for trash mobs/etc, but once you get to a big boss you need to shadow-down and heal, heal, heal.

Anyways, thought you’d like to hear about my experiences with a priest! :)

16. Not every boar has livers, not every bat has eyes… when you loot them.

17. When you have 99cp and pick up 1cp more, all of a sudden you have 1sp.

18. (the Superman II theory) if you look 3cp from an NPC after you kill it, and there are only 2 of you in the party, where does the other 1cp go? If you made a program that collected all of these ‘leftover’ coppers, you’d be pretty rich! ;-)