Healing priest trinkets in 3.1

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Previously when posting gear lists for Discipline and Holy I intentionally excluded trinkets from those lists. While writing those lists I didn’t really have time to give trinkets the work they need and I wasn’t happy with LootRanks treatment of them either. Trinkets are a bit of a special case for gearing as they have significantly more variety between them. The idea of higher item level means better doesn’t apply as strictly as it does for the other gearing slots.

First impressions of Uldar

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Yes, yes I know Uldar has been out for a while.  I’m a casual raider remember?  Actually RL has been pretty busy of late and one weekend of raids were missed when I thought by graphics card had completely died.  It only half died and i’m picking up the new one today, but that is another story.

Uldar.  Where all the cool cats congregate.  Saturday night, after the awesome Naxx 25 run Friday night, I was minding my own business working off some rested XP on Moowall when I get a whisper from a guildie asking if I wanted to heal Uldar 10.  I didn’t really.  I kinda wanted to just level some alts and relax, not smash my head against progression raiding.  I have to admit I was a bit scared intimidated by Uldar.  I’d gotten used to familiar old Naxx and didn’t want to leave my comfort zone.

Holy raiding

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I finally got a chance to road test Holy over the weekend.  A couple of guildies organised a quality (i.e. gear checked) Naxx 25 PUG.  I was late on and the last healer to join.  Wow! Five priests in the raid.  This will be interesting.  Two shadow and three discipline speced including me.  I get summoned and they are at the first boss in Spider wing.  My healing assignment? … Raid.

I have the POWA!

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*Queue the next line from some song from the 80’s* KLF?

I actually mean Power Auras Classic.  The addon, not the band.

I’ve been wanting to try this out for ages, but haven’t really found a good use for it for my healer.  A number of others have posted about this funky addon and it sounds and looks useful.

Enter my decision to finally get my act together and re-bind my mouse wheel to something more useful than zoom in/zoom out for my warrior and we have a perfect marriage of form and function.

Theorycrafting and gear list update

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I’ve updated my theorycrafting posts slightly to include two changes.

Firstly as Zusterke pointed out over at WowInsider my assumption of 80% inside the 5 second rule was a little unlikely.  I’ve bumped this up to 90%.

Secondly i’ve changed the valuation of Holy Concentration.  Originally I was working off 70% uptime for this but there seems to be more support for an uptime more like 45%.  Also i’ve discovered the additional regen is a flat 50% of whatever you’d normally have (be it inside or outside the five second rule).  These two changes significantly reduce the value of Holy Concentration down from about 140-160 MP5 to about 50 MP5.  I’m suspecting a buff to HC might happen before too long.  Would be nice if they extended it to 12s duration or something.

This has some flow-on effects to my Discipline and Holy gear lists.  These lists are also updated to include some of the new stuff still being discovered in Uldar.

So if your interested go and have a look.

Gobble gobble.

PS Discovered another Discipline Priest blog.  This one likes numbers.