Belated relocation information

Blimey I’ve neglected this blog for a long time! Probably time for an update, particularly as some things are more worth updating about than others…

Heroic Lich King 10 down, with an 11th place spot on the World of Logs rankings is somewhere around that ballpark for me.

Not on Runcible, of course – he’s a permanent fixture at the Undercity Auction House, running an occasionally thriving glyph business.

No, it’s Wormskull the Warlock doing all the exciting stuff. If you like, you can read about it at…

http://soulfired.wordpress.com

It’s updated a little bit more often than this one.

Now off to try and do it again for the 25 version, here’s hoping there’s enough resets left before Cata!

Spurious Conjecture: Disc and Cataclysm

I’m currently pondering what the changes announced for Cataclysm will mean for Disc priests.

The change to regen with us wanting Spirit is easy enough to understand. I’d personally like to keep Rapture as some kind of regen mechanic, proccing a mini Spirit Tap, for example.

What I’m much more concerned about is the proposed changes to health pools and the pace of healing. Things will supposedly get less “twitchy”, with more chance of seeing health bars at 50% and more time to plan heals.

T10 healing set changes on the PTR

Well well well, the current PTR patch notes describe a change to the 4 piece T10 heal set bonus…

Priest Tier-10 4-Piece Healing Set

Bonus: Redesigned. This bonus now increases the effectiveness of the caster’s Power Word: Shield and Renew spells by 5%.

Circle of Healers

It was inevitable I suppose. No-one can resist Miss Medicina’s powerful memes for long.

• What is the name, class, and spec of your primary healer? Runcible, Priest, Discipline

Mouseover Macros

Slow progress is being made with the new Speedpad.  Still, its giving me an excuse to rewrite all my mouseover macros in the new patch 3.3 syntax.  Once upon a time I used clique, but never much liked the clicking.  As soon as I worked out some mouseover macros, I never looked back.  My preferred method by a long way.

Right, heres an example macro, followed by an explanation from the wonderful Fitzcairn’s Macro Explain-o-matic…

Giving up on tier gear

A little while ago I was browsing the tier10 priest gear, wondering about how best to spend emblems.  I’d been thinking of taking two pieces of shadow tier and filling the rest with off-set pieces.

Then I spotted who priests share their tokens with…  

Simple scaling formula for Disc PW:S

Power Word: Shield is the defining spell of the Disc Priest. Currently it only scales with one stat – Spellpower. Shields are also of fixed size, with no variation other than this same spellpower input. Assuming full points in all the PW:S boosting Disc talents (Twin Disciplines, Improved PW:S, Focused Power, Borrowed Time) the amount of the shield can be worked out as…

(spellpower * 1.5155) + 2800

Shadow Spells for Healing Priests

With two trees worth of healing oriented goodness its easy to overlook the contribution that spells from the Shadow school can make towards playing as a healer.

Doing Damage

Most of the time when raiding we have limited opportunity to make much of a contribution to dps, especially now that Pestilence doesn’t spread Devouring Plague anymore.  Still, a Mind Sear on a large pack of adds can do enough damage to really help out the raid (and searing Ony’s whelp packs is so much fun!) and some fights (Deathwhisper, Saurfang) have times when adding to the dps is the most useful thing to do.  On the whole, however, Shadow spells don’t count for much in overall dps terms.  Their importance lies in their situational utility…

Back to Button School

Every so often I enjoy playing a really low level character.  I’ll just start one up, run around the starter area for a bit, get to level ten or so, then delete it.

I think its because of the simplicity.  Every action or spell can have its own full-time, dedicated finger.  Just fill up the number keys until no-more-fingers time, then scrap the character.

I enjoy bear tanking for the same reason; I can map and macro everything I’ll need and that’s still a single digit button total.

That’s a world away from playing a priest… 

Another Option for Frost Emblems

I mentioned in my last post why I feel Emblems of Frost should be removed from the daily random heroic.

I also suggested that the easiest way to compensate for this removal was simply to make the gear cost fewer emblems.

Well, easiest isn’t necessarily best.  I had another idea,