Reglyphing

I know it's been a while since my last post, and I apologize for that. I thought I'd have more to say, but I guess I was giving myself a bit too much credit. Hah. Altaholic has given me a bit of gentle prodding though, so I'll see what I can do.

I've gone ahead and reglyphed myself, though I haven't had a chance to test them out in a raid situation yet. I used Elitist Jerks as a start, and picked out the ones I felt were the most beneficial for me personally.

Currently, I am using:

Glyph of Power Word: Shield
Glyph of Penance
Glyph of Prayer of Healing
Glyph of Fortitude
Glyph of Levitate

Glyph of Power Word: Shield is incredibly useful for discipline priests. We already get a stronger shield thanks to our talent tree, which makes the glyph heal for more than it would if the player were holy or (for some reason) shadow. 20% of a disc priest's shield absorption healed can get to be quite a bit, especially if you keep the shield up.

Glyph of Penance is pretty self-explanatory, dropping the cooldown time of Penance 2 seconds. It adds up.

The Glyph of Prayer of Healing I was initially a bit leery on, but I remembered how nice it was to have when I was mainspecced holy, I decided to pop it on. It heals an additional 20% of its initial heal over 6 seconds, which, I can only imagine, will be nice in fights like Festergut and Rotface where there's more than one person taking damage, and the resto shaman is having a hard time by himself.

The other two are minor glyphs, for reducing the mana cost of abilities and removing the need for reagents, respectively. I don't think I've ever played a priest without the latter, since I tend to accidentally autorun myself off cliffs.

I'm still trying to decide what to put in the last minor slot, if anything.

Meanwhile, guild drama. It seems like the dust has settled, for now. We'll see.

Trial of the Crusader

While I loathe this instance with the fiery passion of a thousand suns, my guild convinced me to go and help heal it last night.

The first two encounters are fairly easy, and we managed to breeze through them with minimal damage.

But then came the faction champions.

Now, I have always hated this group. I never understood the need of a PVP-style encounter in PVE progression, and my guild always had the misfortune (when running with me), of getting the most obnoxious combinations possible. Shaman, resto druid, arms warrior, warlock, shadow priest, and ret paladin.

Of course, we managed to wipe a few times before finally figuring it out.

First, we downed the druid. Her hots were a pain in the ass, so she had to be taken down quickly.

Next, we tore through the shaman, who, until this point, had been kept interrupted from healing between our rogues and warrior.

With the healers down, we turned our attention to the dps. The warlock had a nasty habit of casting Hellfire on our melee, so we took him down next.

The shadow priest liked to fear and dot. A lot. So we killed him, quickly. A tremor totem from our own shaman took care of most of the fearing. We killed him quickly, thanks to his lower hit points from being a squishy.

Arms warrior was our next priority, and he was down before I could get more than a few heals off.

And then down went the ret paladin... no casualties on our end.


A note for priests: If you are being attacked, fade. The mobs will lose interest immediately, and you can walk away with barely a scratch. If your fade is on cooldown, pop a shield and run. A taunt can pull them off of you, but if nobody can or will do that, the mobs lose interest after about 9 seconds. Fade would be your best option though, as it leaves you with maximum time to heal.

Too bad that nice caster dagger didn't drop. Oy.

Tonight, we finish.

And So it Begins

I am going to admit it... I am awful at beginning these things. I will, therefore, attempt to keep this first post short and sweet, to tell you a bit about myself.

I am a male Troll discipline priest, offspecced holy. I am a healer in a casualcore raiding guild, progressing through Ulduar with a team of some of the most amazing people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting.

I began my life as a Draenei, and switched servers and factions to play with friends in a guild where I had been an offtank, previously. My knowledge of discipline priests is, at the time, only mediocre, as I leveled from 1 - 80 as holy, but what I do know I will attempt to share in posts to come, to possibly help future generations of healers. Also included will be stories of fail, win, drama and everything inbetween, all through the eyes of a priest.

And with that, I bid you adeu for now.

Stay away from de Voodoo.