Ugly Guys (4 disc priest) - PvE Progress

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tl;dr This team has potential. They're lacking in DPS, but not by a huge amount. Their surviability may be some of the best around. All heroics except Occulus & HoR can already be cleared after 4 days of gear grinding. Will post more in the expansion as instances are cleared.


I'm going to update this thread when the priest team does anything worth a post. Given we're so late in the expansion, it's likely nothing is worthy of a post, but since the 4 disc priest is a relatively new team composition, I thought I'd give a little color to their progress.

If I'm playing, then I'm streaming to www.justin.tv/owltoid

I hit 80 with my priests 4-5 days ago (can't remember). They had lots of greens, my druid tank had mostly tanking greens with some moonkin PvP epics. However, the team still did very well and was able to complete regular FoS without too much trouble and regular PoS with lost of trouble.

4-5 days later, I have now cleared heroic PoS (and everything "below" it is clearable, including heroic FoS). I have been able to complete regular HoR, but the DPS just isn't there for heroic HoR (I can't get the adds down fast enough in the fourth wave).

I realize most/all the heroics have been nerfed. I also realize that the regular FoS gear helped a ton with having this team gear up so quickly. What I would like to stress is this team seems to be a very viable PvE composition.

Their survivability is amazing. When the shit hits the fan, I bring up 4x PW Barrier and can survive through most. Mana isn't an issue (although I expect that to change in the expansion). With 2k spellpower, each priest is doing about 1850 single target DPS. Considering I don't have a healer, that's equivalent to 2466 DPS (1850 ÷ 75%). I'm not sure how that stacks up to "regular" DPS, but my gear level is now about 217 (can anyone comment on how much DPS something like a mage would be doing in that gear level?).

I'm looking forward to reforging to pure crit in the expansion. Having 4x divine aegis on the tank makes for some awesome absorbtion, and I believe that's why my druid was able to complete heroic PoS with only 31k health.

The toughest boss to date has been Ick in heroic PoS. That guy is probably a nightmare for any multiboxer with the amount of different abilities and need to kite, but given the survivability of the priests, and that they could to weak DoTs while running, allowed for me to get him down.