Khaeli has a couple of good posts up on Shadow Weaving: Gearing your Discipline Priest in 3.1, where she talks about the theory behind gear choices, and Khaeli’s (Ulduar) Gear Wishlist, where she lists the actual gear she’s looking at. Along the way, she pointed out the Tier 8 healing priest set bonus (I hadn’t even looked at T8 yet); the 2-set is nice for Discipline priests, but the 4-set is fabulous for this style of healing, since not only will PW:S give us haste, it’ll give us extra oomph behind our healing spells as well.

Some comments on comments:

tom jones: Glyph of PW:S is definitely useful, but it’s actually not as geared to this play style as it looks like it ought to be. The trick is that we’re using PW:S largely for mitigation and for the speed bonus; a lot of the time, we’re going to be shielding people who aren’t actually taking damage, so the glyph isn’t going to be useful. However, when we do shield someone who’s taking damage, that 20% healing is going to be handy. As for PW:S and DA being rage sinks, they’re not anymore; at least according to some early patch notes, damage mitigated by magical shields now counts for the purposes of rage generation. (Original comment)

Tsark: I’d actually forgotten about Enlightenment when I started writing that post! The low amount of Haste you actually need, between Borrowed Time and Enlightenment, to reach the 33% soft cap means that you can easily get it from enchantments and consumables (more rigorous math over on Khaeli’s blog, linked above, leads to a figure of 77 Haste Rating), leaving you free to make gear choices based on other criteria like Crit Rating and Intellect. I’m not sure that I’d recommend getting haste gear at all – certainly not more than one piece – given how easy it is to hit 33% with this play style. (Original comment)

caladein: I haven’t been able to make it past Flame Leviathan so far (my guild raids on Wednesday, Sunday, and Monday, and on Wednesday night we were plagued by server crashes), but from what I’m hearing, you’re right on the money with your comments about Mimiron and Kologarn. I’m hoping that the pattern stays the same throughout Ulduar, in terms of making Discipline priests useful like this. (Original comment)

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