Quote Originally Posted by 'puppychow',index.php?page=Thread&postID=183518#po st183518
damn all this really wants me to level my 61 priest, I hear priests are also getting some decent love in 3.1? The raz fight in Naxx is funny as heck, I see pugs every day "lf1m naxx25 priest any spec/gear!!" and so want to take my priest and rain epics down on her

Also have any of you ever tried gearing for extremely high spirit and just spamming holy nova? threat free aoe heals, and if your spirit is high enough I'd imagine you could spam it non stop during most fights.
Holy Nova is really just an "oh crap" button. It uses double the mana and does maybe half the damage of a pally consecrate. It can sometimes buy you time to get off some real heals, but it uses too much mana to be spammable. When I started my 5x priest group (have some RAF time left) I was intrigued with the aoe possibilities as well, but it takes about half of my mana to burn down regular mobs my level with it (and that's x5). On the other hand, a single one (x5) is enough to bring everyone from half to full health. I've soloed a priest to 71, mostly disc, and it just hurts too much to use Holy Nova anything but rarely.