Leveling a disc priestess

After playing with the AH and being a banker for a long time, my dwarf
priestess wanted some action. No, not that kind of action, you silly !

I had used the lunar festival to travel her to the Exodar, and since my
draenei never quested past level 12, I decided to unleash my dwarf on the
poor draenei. To help them after their spaceship "landing".

Ding ! Level 10. Ok, I have to choose a spec... Hum... I already had a
shadow troll priestess, so it's either disc or holy. Let's try discipline
!

Ding ! Level 18.

My talents: first line : 4 points in improved wand, 1 in the other talent
(don't ask me why I choosed that instead of 5 in improved wand, I don't
know).
Second line : 2 points in improved fortitude, 1 in improved shield and 1
in the talent that proc when I'm hit by a critical strike.


My combat strategy (well, it's more a routine than a strategy) is :

Power word : shield
Holy damage spell (I don't know the name in english)
Dot (see the coment above)
Shadow damage spell (I'm only 18, so I have only these three damage
spells).
Wand to death.

I use another shield or a renew if needed.

With that, my mana comes back while I wand and I don't have to sit to
drink too often.

I can handle a mob, and an add, even two at the same time. Maybe another
add if my instant heal panic button is not on cooldown, but I try to pull
only one.

So, it works, but it could works better (it always could). I want to
stick with disc, and I don't plan to level very quick. Let's say the
questions are about a priest between level 18 and 40.

Any other disc tree lover here ?
Should I fight differently?
What are the strengths of the disc tree? The useless talents? The good
one?

On Mon, 19 May 2008 13:52:32 +0200 (CEST), Lancelet
<lancelet.nospam.RemoveThis@merci.invalid> wrote:

>So, it works, but it could works better (it always could). I want to
>stick with disc, and I don't plan to level very quick. Let's say the
>questions are about a priest between level 18 and 40.
>
>Any other disc tree lover here ?
>Should I fight differently?
>What are the strengths of the disc tree? The useless talents? The good
>one?

Your way of fighting sounds fine, the one thing I suggest is you spend 5
points in the shadow tree for Spirit Tap, then your mana will regen faster
after each kill - right now it'll regen fast enough anyway but in 10-20
levels you'll be glad to have it

Personally when levelling my priests I take spirit tap, then the talent in
holy that prevents interruption while casting heals, then go down disc to
improved divine spirit, after that going into the holy tree. Holy itself is
better than disc for soloing, as it has more damage talents; disc is best
for mana management and survivability, so a combination of the two is
ideal, once you get high enough level to have enough points!

If you want to stick in disc then whatever else you do, make sure you take
Meditation (30% of mana regen continues while casting), it's a massive help
with regen. Mental agility (10% off mana cost of instant spells) is also
very helpful indeed as a lot of your spells are instant cast. The talents
involving dispel magic, manaburn etc, only bother with if you intend to
pvp, as they're a bit of a waste of points otherwise. Can't really comment
on the tree above Imp Divine Spirit as I've never gone beyond that; I
always put the rest of my points in holy as 23/33/5 seems to suit me
perfectly for soloing/5-mans.
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