Moving from 19-39 Priest

[mad0die]

19/11 is generally seen as an Arena spec with full disc specs being utilized more for BGs and premade BGs. Generally for BGs if you want the priest DPSing Holy is amazing..shadow is good too, but very mana intensive to the point that it might not be fully viable.

I've played all the specs and this is a very quick, but good summary of what builds excel where. I keep hoping shadow becomes mana viable at 39, but it just hasn't - holy DPS is better if you primarily want to kill stuff.

 

[Situation]

If I was going to link the most balanced and effective priest I've seen.. It's easily:



[char=us-Stonemaul]Miera[/char]



Plenty of Spellpower, Stam, Int. More regen than most of the priests linked in balanced gear. Also more utility and survivability via ring and a tiny bit of resil.

 

[Alteffour]

miera has slightly less regen actually due to some of the enchant and gear choices...although not by much.



Honestly for bg premade type use id much prefer 6stats to that chest, 12 stam on boots and another uw band for the 2nd ring. I can definatly see this as an extreemly effective gear setup for arena play though.



The sp is nice when combined with the mana pool however and ill probably steal that armory link for the other thread to give that guy another armory to look at. I do think that he/she could easily get away with dropping the neck for a necklace of calisea.



Deathsdead vestment and Miners Hat of the deep make that an extreemly expensive twink to build these days though. Very sexy.

 

[Situation]

Prior to the patch Miera was intended to be an arena character, so it's not surprising you picked up on that. Personally, I think the itemization is much better of Pulsating but I've seen both used. I would probably take +6 stats as well but the resilience combined with the ring and superior spellpower makes miera probably the single hardest priest (gear-wise) to kill in the BattleGroup.



I would highly suggest you think about substituting some +hit into the character as priests have become very much a utility class. Between timed burst, clutch dispels, and defensive/offensive fears hit is much more useful than a static 120 stamina.

 

[Alteffour]

in a nutshell maybe unless you are incredibly lucky enough to have miera's exact gear I wouldnt reccomend dropping 120hp for 10 hit rating. Id sooner go wit the 15 hit on gloves dropping the 20sp (especially if you do go with the pulsating neck) or utilize mantle of doan which I still think is highly underrated even compared to boa shoulders and other popular options.