Thinking Disc priest over REsto sham

[Coltimar]

You will have mana problems with holy if your gear is suspect.

[thinus]

I like disc healing better than holy. Unless you already have nice gear disc is less stressful. I like disc because I do less healing and more damage prevention. I can also DPS more effectively when not healing. Here are the macros I use. I hate posting macros I write because I get flamed to hades but it will give you some idea probably.

Your macros suck!!!11!!!! But seriously, people that flame your macros can go DIAF and I wouldn't pay much attention to them. Unless they provide an idea on how to improve on the macros they are just wasting everyone's time and basically trolling.

I am using a similar rotation PWS, Penance, Flash Heals (no Renew) and I also have a Prayer of Mending in there but I am thinking of dropping the Prayer of Mending.

My group heal macro does an Inner Focus and then Prayer of Healing followed by Holy Nova spam. So far my priest has no mana problems at all and no issues healing the tank and the entire group when required. I only just made 80 and just killed my first heroic boss with no gems and very little in the way of enchants just to give perspective on my point of view. I'll see how the more difficult encounters in heroics go.

[heffner]

I am glad this thread came up. Although, the thread is Disc Priest vs. Resto Shaman (sorry!!) I was just looking over my class specs to see if I should adjust anything and was wondering if I should go disc instead of holy on my priest.

I don't really have any mana issues or healing problems, but want to be as optimal as I can. I use Flash Heal and GHeal on my tank and typically Holy Nova and Flash Heal on my slaves. It seems that disc is considered the better tank healer though, and I assume the Holy Nova works just as well. Guess I will actually have to dual spec one of my toons.

[palvarik]

Ok so far so good with the dis priest. One thing i hate when you cast penance you character turns to your tank, then when you move to run out of stuff your priest goes a different way then the rest. how are you guys getting around that?

Mana never an issue

Instant shield is awesome

Trying to figure out a macro to cast inner focus if off cool down right before a Prayer of healing but when it is on cool down it by passes it and just cast POH.

[Ualaa]

As far as movement goes, we have directional movement, which depends on facing.
Or follow.

The easiest will be to spread your toons out.
And then have a key for everyone to follow a specific toon.

You could go with a follow keymap if you want.
It sends the arrow key to the "lead" toon, who isn't your tank.
And it sends /follow "Lead Toon Name", to your other slaves.
Could do the same with a warcraft macro and creative keybinding, if you wanted.




Would this work, or hang on the Inner Focus?

/cast Inner Focus
/cast Prayer of Healing