Help Priest build please.

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On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 13:54:59 -0700, Brian <brianmcadam@pobox.com>
wrote:

>Start with 5 in Spirit Tap. Then just start driving down the Shadow tree
>towards Shadowform. Once you have Shadowform, start picking up talents in
>Discipline.
>
>When you get to 60, and you start running instances all the time, you can
>respec for Holy/Disc, or Disc/Holy. But Shadow is by far the best for
>leveling.
>
>http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/priests/talents.html?50003205300000000000000000000550222010315151

I agree with what Brian said there - you can still run instances with
a shadow build though. However I don't agree (fully) with his build...

I would move the 3 points in Improved Inner Fire to Mental Strength,
and the 5 points in Blackout to Improved Mind Blast.
The last change there forces you to get at least 3 points in Shadow
Focus, so I chose to just max it by stripping points from Shadow
Reach.

I feel that more mana is better than a boost to Inner Fire - moreso
because this is the last 3 points you will put in, and you should be
running high level instances at that point.
Also, I really dont like Blackout for grinding - whenever it procced
it screwed up my rhythm, and was about as much trouble as it was help
- not a bargain at 5 talent points. It is however golden for PvP, so
you may want to look into swapping Spirit Tap for Blackout at 60 if
you want to PvP a lot.
Finally, I just really like the -2.5 seconds on Mind Blasts cooldown -
the extra range from Shadow Reach is good too, but Imp Mind Blast is
better IMHO...

An alternative build would be to move the 3 points from Mental
Strength to Shadow Reach.

My suggested build is this:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/inf [...] 2010315151

This is actually the build I run MC with - except I sacrificed the one
point in Vampiric Embrace for one more Mental Strength. I am still
debating if that was a mistake...

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Regards
Simon Nejmann