Here’s me: Theande of Aetherial Circle on Drenden. Yes, I’m not in the best gear (but check out my shiny new shoulders from XT-002 Deconstructor!). I’m at 425/433 haste rating, which is good to know (I hadn’t actually looked until now); at this point I can start gearing for crit.
Here’s my talent spec, which I think is pretty standard for Discipline priests. I specced into Desperate Prayer because it was recommended to me, but honestly I never use the spell, so the point would probably be better spent in Healing Focus or Unbreakable Will. You’ll notice that I have Glyph of Dispel Magic; this is because I haven’t been able to find a Glyph of Penance!
Comments and questions are welcome, but to reiterate, “you’re doing it wrong” isn’t welcome here.
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Comment by Crayzeigh — May 7, 2009 @ 10:46 AM
This is the spec I end up with every time I try to do a discipline spec. I like the 1 point in desperate prayer “just in case”. There's a ton of raid damage in Ulduar, it's nice to be able to top yourself off with one button and one GCD. It's also the spec our main Discipline Priest runs with as well (I'm main spec'd into Shadow).
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Comment by Undine — May 8, 2009 @ 2:43 AM
Do you need that much haste?
Here's me: http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=A…
By my calculations with my haste, plus the PW:S haste buff and raid buffs I'm not far off the soft cap. Well over it if the Egg proc is included. Unless I've got things wrong.
Where does 433 come from?
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Comment by Chris Anthony — May 8, 2009 @ 6:44 AM
Do you need it? Certainly not. I tend to prefer it but that's because my approach to healing is focused on quick, light healing.
433 is the amount of Haste Rating you need to hit the haste soft cap (50%), where the GCD is reduced to its minimum of 1.0s, when Borrowed Time and Enlightenment are active. Haste is multiplicative (although haste rating is additive), and each value you're multiplying is (100+Haste bonus)/100; Borrowed Time's 25% haste contributes 1.25 to the function. So when Borrowed Time and Enlightenment are active, you have a base of 1.25*1.06 = 1.325, or 32.5%, haste. Dividing 1.50 (the soft cap) by 1.325 (since Haste is multiplicative, not additive) gives you 1.132, or 13.2%, that you need to make up in Haste Rating. At 32.79 HR per 1% haste, that's 432.8 HR – 433 rounding up, since you can't get fractional HR.
As for raid buffs, I prefer strongly to avoid making gear and healing decisions based on raid composition. Anything beyond what I can do myself is a pleasant added bonus, but not something I can rely on. Food buffs can get you an additional 40 HR, and if you're willing to forego a flask, Elixir of Lightning Speed will get you another 45 HR, which is about 2.6% haste between them. And yes, the Egg procs help get up there, but like class buffs they're unreliable, and you'll eventually want to upgrade past the Egg.
Does that all make sense?
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Comment by Undine — May 8, 2009 @ 7:03 AM
Yes.
I've only recently started seriously considering haste. Mostly I've got what I have now based on available upgrades and using stat weightings from places like DwarfPriest. I'm trying to actually understand why the weightings are such and also take stuff like soft caps into account now though and was having trouble getting my head round haste.
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