New priest on the block?

So, you’re a brand spanking new Horde priest who has just reached the Outlands.  What do you do? Well once you get the Thrallmar there are a couple of things to do.

1) Pick up some flight points.  Many people like to get settled in in Shattrath City ASAP.  So if your going to run there here’s a couple of tips. 

Turkemoo’s Glyphs

Unlike the poor priests shaman have a plethora of decent glyphs to choose from.  Below are my choices for Turkemoo.

Glyph of Windfury Weapon (Major)

Like most enhancement shaman I use Windfury Weapon a lot.  This glyph grants 40% more AP on the bonus AP granted by Windfury Weapon procs (if that makes sense).  This is just a straight DPS buff, and one that gets used continuously both soloing and in instances.  At level 68 Windfury procs normal grant 475 extra AP (about +34 DPS), this will add a further +13.5 DPS.

Tips for new priests

Firstly be aware that I did most of my leveling pre-3.0.2 patch.  Some of these things may have changed slightly since then.  Mana regen is the most likely change as this seems to have been boosted significantly in 3.0.2.  Now on to the tips.

1. Put your first talent points into Spirit Tap.  Regardless if you plan to level as a Shadow Priest or a Holy Smiter (also known as a LOLSmiter, because they used to be relatively weak), always take this talent first.  It will save you hours and hours of waiting for mana regen, especially at low levels where you don’t have much.

The To Do List

Just a quickie.   Here are the things on my short term to do list.

Turkemoo

He’s lost the limelight at the moment.  He’s mainly farming Primal Life and Primal Water for Turkelife’s PMC.

Turkelife

• Hit 70 (currently 69)
• Craft other two bits of PMC set
• Finish Nagrand and Terrokar then do Blade’s Edge and Shadowmoon for money for a basic flyer.
• Gain a bit of reputation here and there to get to specific rep levels (hmm, will post on this sometime).
• Open Achievements window and discover what all the excitement is about

I’ll be lucky to make 70 and get the PMC shoulders by the time Wrath comes out.  At least there should be plenty of demand for healers for 5 man instances with all the new Death Knights coming through.

A short nights highlights

A few interesting bits from last nights play.

Firstly I farmed a few herbs and Primal Lifes with Turkemoo, in the Dead Mire (Zagarmarsh).  Between pulling out herbs, killing bog lords and skinning the bog lords this is pretty easy and profitable work.

While farming I did find a slot for Lava Lash in my rotation.