Priest Spec.

[moosejaw]

I want to add that the empowered renew talent makes renew perform like Riptide with the instant splash heal then the hot continuing. This makes the resto shaman really easy to play with a "pass clicks" setup. Riptide then LHW and a toon is topped off real fast. Earth shield is very OP for healing and frees up the healer to watch the group more. I am taking empowered renew when I respec my priest, skipping lightwell, and taking everything I can to improve the group heal. A glyphed chain heal just can't be beat in some situations i.e. Loken (if you can't take him down before the the second nova).

I can't wait to try my priest as holy again. I am sure the priest will get much better as I gear up.

Edit: I want to add that Prayer of Mending has limited use in 5 mans without an additional target to take damage. I have a hunter pet in range but that is it. The pet doesn't always take damage to make the Pom jump so it seems like it is wasted after the first tank heal. Although I loved it on the last boss in Gundrak last nite when the pet took the impale instead of my healer!

[Harem]

Ok, up til now I've only played warrior w/4 ele shaman. I just use 2x lesser heals (1 key bound to 2 shaman LHW and a different bound to the two other LHW) and sometimes the 4x Chain Heal. I mostly DPS stuff down before I need to do much healing.

But I just hit 80 with my second group- pally, druid, mage, priest, shaman. I thought I might do disc heals while druid and shaman play back up for big heals/ limited hots. The other team has NO dedicated healer so I guess I was thinking I could maximize dps by staying on the same path here.

Thoughts?