Behold, http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-talents.xml?r=Sporeggar&n=Kwakzalver

This is the priest that once gone by the name of Health, on The Venture Co and Ravenholdt!

I have since TBC was planned always believed in holy dps, actually I was the first level 70 priest on Ravenholdt (second overall on server, some tripleplayed-rogue beated me by 6 hours) ... which I did with reflective shield spec.

Also everyone has hold me for an idiot 90% of the times, but it is really possible!

For best endurance use your shadowfiend early, it will topoff your mana and is ready again before you know it. Also dont be afraid of using potions!

I use the holy fire > smite > smite castsequence, which yields the best mana and dps averages.

On trash mobs, go with the smite-all-you-like ... but be 100% sure you are able to and dont pull agro.

As you see my gear is pretty nice for these type of specs, I have 35,75% crit on my holy dmg spells UNBUFFED! You should specially watch lightning bolts flying around while doing AoE packs.

What matters most for dungeons and raids, you always have that extra missing healer. Believe me, from a healer PoV most of the times there is one healer too much for most bosses and trash is not even doable for a priest against pallies powerflashing the whole raid. What I did was in my former healing-hybridspec, to just put on my dps gear and try to outdps the mages/rogues ... which after a while with obtaining more and more gear started to finally happen! So I respecced to what I already planned carefully ... lolsmitezzzzzz, god it was LOVELY!!!


Ode to the priests of the World of Warcraft .... sorry that I've been VERY inactive, but I will return when the BATTLE to 80 starts!!!


PS: My spec has the least useless talents, atleast the way I play ...

/edit: forgot to mention that the best group for NUKEFORCEONE is: Shadowpriest (yes, this is what makes the ultimate combination of raw power to this group ... mana regen), elemental shaman, retardin (sanc aura), oomkin and ofcourse your hybrid-priest!

Also forgot to mention ... holy nova is THE best AoE you can have in your raids AoE groups ;)

sjoer, just a quick question.  I looked at your armory and think your spec is pretty solid.  I might fiddle with some of the utility points, but there is one talent that I'm curious about why you don't have it.

Assuming you raid, you only have 8.4% spell hit and you don't have any points in Focused Power for up to 4% more spell hit.  Based on my calculations from another thread, even if you took those 2 points from Force of Will, one of the most useful talents, you'd still get more DPS.  Even as good as PI is, 20% more damage for 15s every 3 minutes (1.67% damage boost on average) is out-classed by 4% more hit (4.38% more damage based on your current gear).  IOW, based on my calculations, you should see about a 2.7% increase in your DPS if you drop PI and 1 point in Mental Strength for 2 points in Focused Power.  Of course, that only counts for raid bosses.  If you use PI on trash (less likely except on some of the earlier pulls before bosses) you'd see a small drop on trash; if you don't use PI on trash, you'd see no difference.